Spatial Justice After Apartheid

Jaco Barnard-Naudé is Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies (CRhS) at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Law Faculty, South Africa. From 2020 to 2021, he was a Research Professor in the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is a past recipient of the UCT Fellows’ Award and was the British Academy’s Newton Advanced Fellow in the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster Law School, UK, from 2017 to 2020. Jaco holds a B2-rating from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and is also a past Honorary Research Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He publishes widely in the fields of Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, Spatial Justice, Queer Legal Theory, Contractual Justice after Apartheid and Transitional Post-Apartheid Justice.Julia Chryssostalis is Principal Lecturer and Co-Director of the Westminster Law and Theory Lab at the University of Westminster Law School, UK. She became an academic after practising law as a lawyer in Athens, Greece, while chairing the Human Rights Education Committee of the Greek Section of Amnesty International. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, Princeton University, USA and University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current work is in the interface of critical legal theory and law and humanities exploring the different names and figures of nomos.

• List of Contributors 1 Apartheid remains: Nomos, law and spatiality in post-apartheid South Africa JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ AND JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS2 Un/mapping Black life: On estranged spatialities, colonial nomos and the ruses of “post”-apartheid JOEL M. MODIRI3 On the San Dominick: Thinking nomos and postcolonial becoming with Melville, Schmitt and Fanon JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS4 Unlearning, (un)naming, cohabiting KARIN VAN MARLE5 Inventaris van my bankrotskap as digter/Inventory of my poetic bankruptcy ANTJIE KROG6 The ground beneath our feet: Black feminist geography in South African literature BARBARA BOSWELL7 (Un)making Annie: Black female subjectivity, the normative (white) suburban South African home and land repossession VICTORIA J. COLLIS-BUTHELEZI8 “Space is space”: The nomos of apartheid, “the coloniser who refuses” and uncolonial spatiality in JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ9 Queer states: Beyond the nomos of the closet in Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare DERRICK HIGGINBOTHAM10 Abstract space: Continuation, infestation and sanitation in the South African Lawscape ISOLDE DE VILLIERS11 Unequal scenes JOHNNY MILLER12 Sense of place, virtual displacement and a nomos beyond apartheid: What value for a rights-based approach? LORETTA FERIS AND JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ13 Memory Card Sea Power: Photographs by David Southwood TEXT BY SEAN CHRISTIE FROM ‘UNDER NELSON MANDELA BOULEVARD:LIFE AMONG THE STOWAWAYS’ AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID SOUTHWOODFROM ‘MEMORY CARD SEA POWER’14 Rewriting type: Writing nomos otherwise IAIN LOWIndex