The book delves into the complex legal and social implications of parking rights, highlighting how disputes over parking spaces reflect broader issues of equality, legitimacy, and entitlement. It examines the parking space as more than just a physical location, revealing its significance in shaping identities and property claims. By analyzing interactions between individuals in everyday parking scenarios and their legal ramifications, the text uncovers the deeper socio-legal meanings embedded in these commonplace disputes.
Exploring the paved road as a liminal space, this book delves into the everyday struggles surrounding property, power, and identity. It introduces concepts like pavementalities and pavementeering, framing the road not just as a physical pathway but as a legal frontier that facilitates movement and interaction. Through this lens, the author highlights how these practices shape our understanding of space and community.
The exploration of law as a dynamic entity highlights its ability to adapt to societal changes while remaining rooted in historical context. This book delves into the socio-cultural and legal aspects of law's fluidity, showcasing how it evolves in response to new life situations. Through theoretical perspectives and legal case studies, it examines the inherent tensions within the legal system, emphasizing its unique identity shaped by both cultural and social influences. The work offers insights into the ongoing dialogue between tradition and innovation in law.
Exploring the dynamic interplay between law and ever-changing landscapes, this book challenges the traditional static view of legal geography. It highlights how natural phenomena like lava flows and glaciers disrupt conventional notions of stability in place and property rights. By examining these kinetic environments, the work offers fresh jurisprudential insights into the nature of law and its adaptability, suggesting that all landscapes possess an inherent dynamism that influences legal frameworks and regulations.
What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world? Exploring the
rise of Shi'i activism in Lebanon and the Middle East, and drawing
transnational parallels with other revolutionary religious struggles in Latin
America and South Africa, Sarah Marusek offers a timely analysis of the social
and political evolution of Islamic movements. From colonial authorities, to
authoritarian governments, and occupation forces, Islamic movements have long
existed in opposition to a number of different forces. Whilst this opposition
has often been contradictory, the growing popularity of Islamic movements
means that many groups are now also gaining increasing economic and political
powers. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon,
following the Islamic Resistance movement and Hizbullah, Marusek paints a
picture of how resistance is lived and reproduced, and where resistance and
power clash.Faith and Resistance discusses the possibility for resistance
groups to reconcile acquiring power with their decolonial aspirations. In
doing so, it will act as a guide for liberation struggles and those engaged in
resistance the world over.
