The article explores the issues of how law and space intersect in the area known as 'The South'. It examines the intersection between 'Northern' traditions of law and space and indigenous Australians experience of this 'history'. These intersections are germane to the question of how living in the South should now be understood in terms of the shape and pattern of legal relations. Ultimately, the question of indigenous and local traditions that form patterns of the lived experience of local peoples is mediated through law, but is not entirely subsumed by Northern law. Spatial and temporal existence is culturally embedded, and Aboriginal experience of time, for example, does not adhere to Northern parameters. Accordingly, the interleaving of law, tradition and 'existence' is played out in various ways in the colonial and postcolonial history of the South. Thus the interaction between the imposed legal concept and process, and that lived experience of the peoples of the South (whether we designate it as 'tradition' or not) is what is at issue in framing responses to the question of what it means to be positioned in the South.

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The Invention of Tradition: Property Law as a Knowledge Space for the Appropriation of the South

ijur_1051 223..238 This article is an intervention in the epistemologies and methodologies of urban studies. It seeks to understand and transform the ways in which the cities of the global South are studied and represented in urban research, and to some extent in popular discourse. As such, the article is primarily concerned with a formation of ideas — ‘subaltern urbanism’ — which undertakes the theorization of the megacity and its subaltern spaces and subaltern classes. Of these, the ubiquitous ‘slum’ is the most prominent. Writing against apocalyptic and dystopian narratives of the slum, subaltern urbanism provides accounts of the slum as a terrain of habitation, livelihood, self-organization and politics. This is a vital and even radical challenge to dominant narratives of the megacity. However, this article is concerned with the limits of and alternatives to subaltern urbanism. It thus highlights emergent analytical strategies, utilizing theoretical categories that transcend the familiar metonyms of underdevelopment such as the megacity, the slum, mass politics and the habitus of the dispossessed. Instead, four categories are discussed — peripheries, urban informality, zones of exception and gray spaces. Informed by the urbanism of the global South, these categories break with ontological and topological understandings of subaltern subjects and subaltern spaces.

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Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Now 1 1. Blackness: The Human 17 2. Bare Life: The Flesh 33 3. Assemblages: Articulation 46 4. Racism: Biopolitics 53 5. Law: Property 74 6. Depravation: Pornotropes 89 7. Deprivation: Hunger 113 8. Freedom: Soon 125 Notes 139 Bibliography 181 Index 205

Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. He is Director of the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and Director of the Center of Documentation on the Revolution of 1974, at the same University. He has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French and German.

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Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges

A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present

Introduction: The Contemporary Politics of Knowing and Learning 1 Changing the Soul: The Contours, Currents and Contradictions of the Neoliberal Revolution 2 The Machinations of the Managerialism: New Public Management and the Diminishing Power of Knowledge Professionals 3 The Neoliberalization of Knowledge: Privatization and the New Epistemic Economy 4 The New Marketplace of Ideas: The New Knowledge Makers and their New Knowledge 5 Creating the Clever Country: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Society Policies and the Restructuring of Higher Education 6 "An Island of Socialism in a Free Market Sea:" Building the Market-Oriented School 7 Aligning Markets and Minds: The Responsiblized Self in the New Entrepreneurial Culture

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Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education

This article provides an account of how neoliberal policies are currently in the process of capturing and dismantling the liberal pubic university that was constructed in various places around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article examines the political and epistemic relationship between liberalism, embedded liberalism, the state, and the organizational forms that the university would take throughout most of the twentieth century. It provides an overview of some of the specific neoliberal efforts to transform universities into servants of the economy and how business interests came to capture the university over the last few decades with the help of the new “enterprising state.” This article concludes by examining what these recent changes mean for the future of both the liberal university as we have known it, and the larger quest for education in a democratic society.

From E Pluribus Unum to Caveat Emptor: How Neoliberal Policies are Capturing and Dismantling the Liberal University

Traditionally, skepticism has been treated as a particular epistemological position within the philosophy of science. In this paper, however, I examine skepticism using the work of neo-Durkheimian theorists and constructivists in social studies of science. I argue that the current version of skepticism associated with postmodern theory can be seen as an outcome of a particular type of organizational arrangement between knowledge producers within certain fields. I contend that fields with a high degree of organizational permeability, high task uncertainty and low mutual dependence, such as philosophy and literary criticism, tend to produce skeptical, relativistic and reflexivistic styles of knowledge. Such fields are more likely to produce skepticism because they lack the organizational cohesiveness and rigid hierarchies necessary to form and to enforce strong and allencompassing associational ties and shared codes and symbols among members.

Steven Ward

Papers

A critique of postcolonial reason: Toward a history of the vanishing present

Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education

From E Pluribus Unum to Caveat Emptor: How Neoliberal Policies are Capturing and Dismantling the Liberal University

The social production of postmodern skepticism