Fear in the Lawscape

BAUMAN'S LIQUID LAW AND SOCIETY, J. Priban, ed., Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2007

23 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2009 Last revised: 29 Nov 2010

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Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

University of Westminster, Westminster Law & Theory Centre

Date Written: February 8, 2009

Abstract

This is an attempt to connect Law and Urban Geography. Thus, Law and the City are brought together on various ontologica and epistemological levels to create what can be called 'the lawscape'. The fusion is ridden with conflict, crossings and paradoxes. It is argued here that, once the ontological and epistemological connections between law and the city are drawn, fear can be observed to be lurking on either side of the boundary between the two. In this way, the concept of fear and its counterpart, anxiety, contribute to an interdisciplinary construction which is distanced from psychology and free to be linked with cinematographic, architectural, sociolegal and philosophical references, aiming at a full liquefaction and paradoxification of the ambivalence of fear as the enabler of the lawscape. Fear is seen as the motivator of the connection between law and the urban space, as well as an opportunity to venture 'further' out.

Keywords: Law and Geography, Law and Urban, Law and City, Space, Place, Fear, Anxiety, Kurosawa, Luhmann, Kierkegaard, Derrida

JEL Classification: K10, K19

Suggested Citation

Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, Fear in the Lawscape (February 8, 2009). BAUMAN'S LIQUID LAW AND SOCIETY, J. Priban, ed., Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1339604

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Contact Author)

University of Westminster, Westminster Law & Theory Centre ( email )

School of Law, University of Westminster
4-12 Little Titchfield Street
London, W1W7UW
United Kingdom

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