Overview

While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre’s writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance of this significant thinker for the study of law and state power. Introducing Lefebvre to a legal audience, this book identifies the central themes that run through his work, including his unorthodox, humanist approach to Marxist theory, his sociological and methodological contributions to the study of everyday life and his theory of the production of space. These elements of Lefebvre’s thought are explored through detailed investigations of the relationships between law, legal form and processes of abstraction; the spatial dimensions of neoliberal configurations of state power; the political and aesthetic aspects of the administrative ordering of everyday life; and the ‘right to the city’ as the basis for asserting new forms of spatial citizenship. Chris Butler argues that Lefebvre’s theoretical categories suggest a way for critical legal scholars to conceptualise law and state power as continually shaped by political struggles over the inhabitance of space. This book is a vital resource for students and researchers in law, sociology, geography and politics, and all readers interested in the application of Lefebvre’s social theory to specific legal and political contexts.

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Author:   Chris Butler (Griffith University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge Cavendish
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780415534154

ISBN 10:   0415534151
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   14 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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'This is an excellent book that will no doubt take up a place in the canon of secondary texts on Lefebvre' -Associate Professor, Mark Purcell, of the University of Washington for Society and Space Journal, 2013 'Chris Butler offers an erudite, concise, and coolly humorous account of Henri Lefebvre's work' - Associate Professor, Shaun McVeigh, of the Melbourne Law School for The Law for the Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Journal, 2013'...the book ‘successfully distills many essential and complex aspects of Lefebvre’s writings in a clear and decisive prose … but it also demonstrates multiple avenues of potential applicability for Lefebvre’s texts to legal theory' - John Zarobell (2014) ‘Book review: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City’, Law, Culture and the Humanities, 10(3): 487-489

'This is an excellent book that will no doubt take up a place in the canon of secondary texts on Lefebvre' -Associate Professor, Mark Purcell, of the University of Washington for Society and Space Journal, 2013 'Chris Butler offers an erudite, concise, and coolly humorous account of Henri Lefebvre's work' - Associate Professor, Shaun McVeigh, of the Melbourne Law School for The Law for the Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Journal, 2013'...the book 'successfully distills many essential and complex aspects of Lefebvre's writings in a clear and decisive prose ... but it also demonstrates multiple avenues of potential applicability for Lefebvre's texts to legal theory' - John Zarobell (2014) 'Book review: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 10(3): 487-489

'This is an excellent book that will no doubt take up a place in the canon of secondary texts on Lefebvre' -Associate Professor, Mark Purcell, of the University of Washington for Society and Space Journal, 2013 'Chris Butler offers an erudite, concise, and coolly humorous account of Henri Lefebvre's work' - Associate Professor, Shaun McVeigh, of the Melbourne Law School for The Law for the Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Journal, 2013 '...the book 'successfully distills many essential and complex aspects of Lefebvre's writings in a clear and decisive prose ... but it also demonstrates multiple avenues of potential applicability for Lefebvre's texts to legal theory' - John Zarobell (2014) 'Book review: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City', Law, Culture and the Humanities, 10(3): 487-489

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Chris Butler is a Lecturer at the Griffith Law School, Australia. He researches in the areas of critical theory, law and geography, administrative law and urban studies.

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