Kemmerer, Alexandra

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Mo 21 Nov2011Exploring the Legal Life of Urban Spaces verfassungsblog.de /exploring-legal-life-urban-spaces/Alexandra Kemmerer Mo 21 Nov 2011Sometimes we are emotional about spaces and places, about distant spots or familiar neighbourhoods. We loveor hate, or feel loved and hated, ignored or inspired, in certain places. But when and where does the law comein?Today’s Rechtskulturen Colloquium at Humboldt University’s Faculty of Law in Berlin shall explore the complexrelationships between urban space, the law, and emotion.Rechtskulturen Fellow Christine Hentschel will present her current work in progress, with Helmut Aust ascommentator. According to the speaker’s abstract, the lecture “is based on the assumption that law is never simply applied, but always interpreted by aheterogeneous assemblage of legal and non-legal authorities. Common sense, professionalexperience, prejudice, and aesthetic judgment all inform the actions and decisions taken by urbanpractitioners – from oﬃcials at the Ordnungsamt to representatives of urban renewal initiatives.The site for Hentschel’s analysis is Berlin’s neighbourhood of Neukölln – a place long branded asdepressed and failing, but currently going through a phase of rapid, and nervous, transformation.The talk disentangles the legal and quasi-legal strategies that urban regulators apply in theirattempts to alter the social, aesthetic and aﬀective fabric of Neukölln’s spaces. Two spatialities –each in its own way iconic and troubled – come into focus here: the space of the casino on theone hand, and that of Broadway Neukölln (a shopping street called Karl Marx Straße) on theother. Coupling critical socio-legal studies with postcolonial urban theory, governmentality studies,and aﬀect theory, Hentschel seeks to conceptualize the creative workings of the law in a time of aneighbourhood’s nervous ﬂickering.“ LICENSED UNDER CC BY NC NDSUGGESTED CITATION  Kemmerer, Alexandra: Exploring the Legal Life of Urban Spaces, VerfBlog,2011/11/21, http://verfassungsblog.de/exploring-legal-life-urban-spaces/.1/1

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