The law is not enough: Seeking the theoretical ‘frontier of urban justice’ via legal tools
The law is not enough: Seeking the theoretical ‘frontier of urban justice’ via legal tools
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光有法律是不够的：通过法律工具寻找“城市正义的前沿”理论
DOI：
10.1177/0042098016636574
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
D. Martin
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作者：
Joseph Pierce;D. Martin
这篇评论通过使用法律的工具，在一般和实际存在的新自由主义城市背景下，探讨了城市正义的概念限制。我们的兴趣出现在以前的研究社会服务选址在一个地区的法律的工具，似乎特别友好的空间正义，由于限制排他性分区。从概念上讲，这种强有力的法律的杠杆可能会减轻在城市政府权力下放的背景下普遍观察到的复仇主义趋势。然而，即使给予特殊的法律的便利，我们也发现了一个空间集中的服务景观，反映了新自由主义市场主导的“最高和最佳使用”的框架。使用这种先前的研究作为出发点，我们强调了在更广泛的文献中的相关发现，城市社会正义活动家使用的法律。我们认为，即使是最强大的法律的保护正义为导向的行为者不能钝系统的空间政治动态，导致市场化国家走向复仇的结果。我们呼吁今后的研究更明确地描绘法律作为社会正义工具的潜力的具体边界。
This commentary examines the conceptual limits of urban justice through the use of legal tools, both generally and in actually existing neoliberal urban contexts. Our interest emerges from previous research on social service siting in a region with legal tools that seem exceptionally friendly to spatial justice due to limits on exclusionary zoning. Conceptually, such powerful legal levers might be expected to mitigate the generally observed tendency towards revanchism in contexts of urban government devolution. However, even given exceptional legal accommodations, we found a spatially concentrated service landscape, mirroring neoliberal market-led framings of ‘highest and best use’. Using this prior research as a point of departure, we highlight related findings in the broader literature on the use of the law by urban social justice activists. We argue that even maximally powerful legal protections for justice-oriented actors cannot blunt systematic spatio-political dynamics that lead marketised states towards revanchist outcomes. We call for future research which more explicitly charts the specific frontiers of the potential of the law as a tool for social justice.