Legal Theory

This book explores the failure of established institutions to challenge the categorical centrality of ‘Western Man’ to modernity. This failure can be linked to a fundamental tension between the tired assumptions of modernism and the urgent needs of a complex age characterized by eco-crises: a tensio..

This book explores the relation between space, law and control in the contemporary city – and particularly in relation to urban ‘mega events’ – through a combined geographical and normative analysis. This book will be of considerable interest to those working in critical urban geography, critical le..

This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction, law and justice, it considers a range of t..

This book argues that punitive and condemnatory reactions to illegal and dangerous sexual practices repress conflicting and troubling unconscious desires. Drawing from psychoanalysis, post-colonialism and feminism, Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious examines ways in which the creation of danger and..

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory...

Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory...

Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthquake is no longer seen a..

Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthquake is no longer seen a..

What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and soci..

Divine Violence maintains that the apparent unavoidability of sovereignty, to which many thinkers have succumbed, can be overcome with the assistance of Walter Benjamin...

Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a collection of some of the world’s leading cultural legal scholars addressing issues of law, representation and the image. The book undertakes specific political and critical engagements with timely issues..

This book addresses the legal, philosophical and political question of an ethics of hospitality: an ethics engaged by the confrontation with what is different or new. The ethics of hospitality articulated here is based on the experience that human life is less a bundle of sovereign initiatives than ..