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2017, A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Spatial justice in a world of violence, in C. Butler and E. Mussawir (eds), Spaces of Justice, London: Routledge, 2017
"Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos opens the book with his latest contribution to his comprehensive project of re-theorising spatial justice with a piece titled ‘Spatial Justice in a World of Violence’. Through a close reading of the photographic series Fortunes of War, Life Day by artist Eric Lesdema, Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is interested in how these images reveal peripheral spaces at the edge of violence which impose an ethic of spatial responsibility on the viewer in the act of turning away and looking elsewhere. While no acts of explicit violence are shown in the images, we are left with no doubt that violence is ubiquitous along the spatio-temporal continuum. This continuum of violence between bodies raises questions of complicity and responsibility. Do we submit to a state of affairs in which space is saturated with the everyday and immobilised violence of the ‘engineered atmosphere’ – or is it also possible for bodies to withdraw from the atmosphere, through ruptures and folds within the continuum? Such a notion raises the ethical possibility of the ‘emergence of spatial justice’." Chris Butler and Edward Mussawir (eds)
Violence is a confounding concept. It frequently defies explanation and lacks an agreed upon definition. Yet geographers are well positioned to bring greater conceptual clarity to violence by thinking through its intersections with space. In setting the tone for this special issue on Violence and Space we highlight some of the key lines of flight that have shaped geographical thinking on violence. While there are a significant number of geographers interested in the question of violence, the field of ‘geographies of violence’ remains an emerging area of research that deserves greater attention and a more rigorous examination. By emphasizing the spatiality of violence, this special issue aims to contribute to a more sustained conversation on the violent geographies that shape our daily lives, our encounters with institutions, and the various structures that configure our social organization. This introduction is but an initial sketch of what we believe needs to be a much larger and unfolding research agenda dedicated to understanding violence from a geographical perspective.
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Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos: Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere2016 •
Sophie Watson (ed.), Spatial Justice in the City, London: Routledge, 2019
Andreas PM - The Inconclusive Spatial JusticeSpatial justice as a concept seems to be at home in many disciplines, such as geography, sociology, law, politics, philosophy and so on. Precisely because of this, its nature, definition, context and repercussions are yet to be worked out to a satisfactory degree. The contributions in this volume help advance the discussion, adding context and expanding the modes of defining and experiencing spatial justice. It is remarkable, for example, that spatial justice can inform contexts as varied as the gulf states, british self-defence manuals for women, water religious rituals, post-war housing reclamations, Instagram tags, waste transport and art practices – and likewise be informed by these new contexts. It attests to the richness but also potential vagueness of the concept.
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This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory and space. Focusing on enforced disappearances and genocide as violent practices aimed at destroying and erasing the traces of the 'enemy', the authors explore the manifold spatial strategies of domination and violence, and the powers of memory, resistance and transformation. The originality of this book lies in the dialogue it establishes between memory studies and the critical studies of space. The bridging of these academic fields opens up a fertile and, to a large extent, unexplored research area. Engaging with the spatial deployment of past and present violence in Argentina, Cambodia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the United States, the chapters include an original interview with the eminent geographer David Harvey and fragments of The Cartographer. Warsaw 1:400.000 by the acclaimed Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga in its first English edition.
Through this conference we aim to explore the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. Given that our present conjuncture is one constituted by innumerable sites of exclusion, oppression, and resistance(s), such an interrogation is both crucial and potentially productive in rethinking questions of power and radical politics. In this zeitgeist the contingency of hitherto relatively stable configurations of power has been rendered visible through the failing allure of liberal democratic politics. The dislocations conjured by the ‘spectral dance of capital’ (Žižek, 2008) have rift a void from which a plurality of discourses have proliferated that seek to address this moment of crises by either caging/bounding or expanding the social. That is, at stake in many contemporary political projects currently gaining traction is the redrawing of frontiers, bounds of inclusion and exclusion – from international borders to the remaking of frontiers within existing polities. Violence/antagonism, in various iterations, is central to the (re)inscription of these frontiers (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985). Not only evident in ostensibly bellicose projects that seek to defend or contest regimes of power through violent struggle; violence is imbricated in an other, perhaps more foundational or ‘originary’ sense (Arendt, 1963; Derrida, 1990). The redrawing of boundaries reconfigures differential relationships of power and propriety, which designate who has the right to speak sovereignly in a given space, who is a worthy and noble victim, and who is not (Butler, 2009). Boundaries determine who is differentially exposed to systemic, symbolic and subjective forms of violence. By keeping the question of the spatial in view, both its making and breaking, we keep a focus on the concrete practices of disruption, as well as the democratic potentialities of space (Dikeç, 2015). Then the new possible modes of liberation, domination, and property, but also the various spatial-political imaginaries that guide them are rendered intelligible.
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Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s Spatial Justice excavates the spatio-legal through a handful of innovative concepts: body, continuum, space, atmosphere, lawscape and, of course, spatial justice. This review aims to con- tribute to the debate around what is an admirable scholarly endeavour by offering three sketches. These aim to facilitate a sensory intuition of the leap in spatial awareness that the book encourages in the reader: Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Eduardo De Filippo’s play Filumena Marturano. The three sketches also introduce a rework- ing of Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s spatial thinking through a social construc- tionist lens, attempting to clarify a few points. How the body is a collective composed in assemblages. How space amounts to the spacing of bodies in a continuum. And how the difference between space and law collapses into the lawscape, once space is understood as “normed” by bodies moving and staying still. Finally, amidst the call of conflicting emplacements, spatial justice (‘a legge d’‘o munno, as it is named by the protagonist of De Filippo’s play) emerges as possibility for reorientation, sparked by the gradual development of appropriate resources for bodies to account for their positionings before one other, and to coordinate their re-norming of space.
There can be no justice that is not spatial. Against a recent tendency to despatialise law, matter, bodies and even space itself, this book insists on spatialising them, arguing that there can be neither law nor justice that are not articulated through and in space. Spatial Justice presents a new theory and a radical application of the material connection between space – in the geographical as well as sociological and philosophical sense – and the law – in the broadest sense that includes written and oral law, but also embodied social and political norms. More specifically, it argues that spatial justice is the struggle of various bodies – human, natural, non-organic, technological – to occupy a certain space at a certain time. Seen in this way, spatial justice is the most radical offspring of the spatial turn, since, as this book demonstrates, spatial justice can be found in the core of most contemporary legal and political issues – issues such as geopolitical conflicts, environmental issues, animality, colonisation, droning, the cyberspace and so on. In order to ague this, the book employs the lawscape, as the tautology between law and space, and the concept of atmosphere in its geological, political, aesthetic, legal and biological dimension. Written by a leading theorist in the area, Spatial Justice: Bodies, Lawscape, Atmosphere forges a new interdisciplinary understanding of space and law, while offering a fresh approach to current geopolitical, spatiolegal and ecological issues.
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