SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transport Corridor, Civil Engineering, Public Space

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Laura Kwak

Document Summary

Neoliberalism and economic restructuring - the myth of meritocracy the austerity agenda. Space like the law is a social product. The legal shapes the spatial and the social just as the social and the spatial shape the legal. An interdisciplinary research approach to examine how the law is spatially organized how our understanding of space and place are shaped by law, legal systems, legal reason and legal discourse. Space is not innocent space is political. Either we fill it with things (houses, monuments, bridges) or nature fills it with trees, a cold climate, and so on. We think, for example, that chinatowns simply emerged when chinese people migrated in sufficient numbers to north america and decided to live together. Slums and wealthy suburbs seem to evolve naturally. In the same way that spaces appear to develop organically, so too the inhabitants of spaces seem to belong to them.