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Controlling Urban Events: Law, Ethics and the Material

Controlling Urban Events: Law, Ethics and the Material

Hardcover

Series: Space, Materiality and the Normative

General LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138645141
ISBN13: 9781138645141
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 12 2017
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban? This book explores the relation between space, law and control in the contemporary city - and particularly in the context of urban 'mega events' - through a combined geographical and normative analysis. Informed by the recent spatial, affective and material 'turns' in the humanities and social sciences, Andrea Pavoni addresses this question by pursuing an innovative and trans-disciplinary approach, capable of accounting for the emergence of order in urban space both at the conceptual and empirical levels. Two overarching objectives are pursued. First, to account for the increasing convergence of logics, techniques and technologies of law, security and marketing into novel, potentially oppressive spatial configurations. Second, to envisage a consistent ethico-political strategy to counter this evolution, by rethinking originally and in radically spatial terms the notion of justice. Forging a sophisticated and original analysis, this book offers an analysis that will be of considerable interest to those working in critical urban geography, critical legal studies, critical event studies, surveillance and control studies.

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