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Christian Book Award (R) program Outreach Resource of the Year Have
you ever felt too progressive for conservatives, but too
conservative for progressives? Too often, political questions are
framed in impossible ways for the faithful Christian: we're forced
to choose between social justice and biblical values, between
supporting women and opposing abortion. As a result, it's easy for
Christians to grow disillusioned with civic engagement or fall back
into tribal extremes. This state of affairs has damaged Christian
public witness and divided the church. The authors of this book
represent the AND Campaign, which exists to educate and organize
Christians for faithful civic and cultural engagement. They insist
that not only are we called to love our neighbors through the
political process but also that doing so requires us to transcend
the binary way the debates are usually framed. In simple,
understandable language, they lay out the biblical case for
political engagement and help Christians navigate the complex world
of politics with integrity, from political messaging and the
politics of race to protests, advocacy, and more. The book includes
a study guide for classroom use and group discussion. When we
understand our civic engagement as a way to obey Christ's call to
love our neighbor, we see that it is possible to engage the
political process with both love and truth-compassion and
conviction.
While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre's writings have been
examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social
theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no
comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri
Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City
provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance
of this significant thinker for the study of law and state power.
Introducing Lefebvre to a legal audience, this book identifies the
central themes that run through his work, including his unorthodox,
humanist approach to Marxist theory, his sociological and
methodological contributions to the study of everyday life and his
theory of the production of space. These elements of Lefebvre's
thought are explored through detailed investigations of the
relationships between law, legal form and processes of abstraction;
the spatial dimensions of neoliberal configurations of state power;
the political and aesthetic aspects of the administrative ordering
of everyday life; and the 'right to the city' as the basis for
asserting new forms of spatial citizenship. Chris Butler argues
that Lefebvre's theoretical categories suggest a way for critical
legal scholars to conceptualise law and state power as continually
shaped by political struggles over the inhabitance of space. This
book is a vital resource for students and researchers in law,
sociology, geography and politics, and all readers interested in
the application of Lefebvre's social theory to specific legal and
political contexts.
While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre's writings have been
examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social
theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no
comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri
Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City
provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance
of this significant thinker for the study of law and state power.
Introducing Lefebvre to a legal audience, this book identifies the
central themes that run through his work, including his unorthodox,
humanist approach to Marxist theory, his sociological and
methodological contributions to the study of everyday life and his
theory of the production of space. These elements of Lefebvre's
thought are explored through detailed investigations of the
relationships between law, legal form and processes of abstraction;
the spatial dimensions of neoliberal configurations of state power;
the political and aesthetic aspects of the administrative ordering
of everyday life; and the 'right to the city' as the basis for
asserting new forms of spatial citizenship. Chris Butler argues
that Lefebvre's theoretical categories suggest a way for critical
legal scholars to conceptualise law and state power as continually
shaped by political struggles over the inhabitance of space. This
book is a vital resource for students and researchers in law,
sociology, geography and politics, and all readers interested in
the application of Lefebvre's social theory to specific legal and
political contexts.
This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities
posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a
variety of theoretical influences that include Henri Lefebvre,
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose,
Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Antonio Negri and Yan Thomas, the
contributors to this book conduct a series of jurisprudential,
aesthetic and political inquiries into 'just' modes of occupying
space, and the ways in which space comes under the signs of law and
justice. Bringing together leading critical legal scholars with
theorists and practitioners from other disciplines within the
humanities, Spaces of Justice investigates unexplored associations
between law and architectural theory, the visual arts, geography
and cultural studies. The book contributes to the ongoing
destabilisation of the boundaries between law and the broader
humanities and will be of considerable interest to scholars and
students with an interest in the normative dimensions of law's
'spatial turn'.
This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities
posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a
variety of theoretical influences that include Henri Lefebvre,
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose,
Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti, Antonio Negri and Yan Thomas, the
contributors to this book conduct a series of jurisprudential,
aesthetic and political inquiries into 'just' modes of occupying
space, and the ways in which space comes under the signs of law and
justice. Bringing together leading critical legal scholars with
theorists and practitioners from other disciplines within the
humanities, Spaces of Justice investigates unexplored associations
between law and architectural theory, the visual arts, geography
and cultural studies. The book contributes to the ongoing
destabilisation of the boundaries between law and the broader
humanities and will be of considerable interest to scholars and
students with an interest in the normative dimensions of law's
'spatial turn'.
Combining 20th-century physics, astronomy and quantum mechanics with the traditional archetypes of a tarot deck, this theoretical investigation lends poetic expression to extraordinary scientific theory. With gorgeous illustrations that offer a new glimpse of the universe, the accompanying cards offer both wonderful meditation images and basic tarot functionality. This fascinating analysis examines how the most important theories in modern physics play out in two extreme worlds - the vast expanses of the universe and the strange, invisible world inside the atom itself.
A report on the excavation of a small Roman pottery industrial site
at Wickham Barn, to the north of Lewes in East Sussex, undertaken
by the Mid Sussex Field Archaeological Team during 1995 and 1996.
Two pottery kilns and associated features, dated between AD 250 and
350, are described followed by a detailed analysis of the pottery,
its distribution and its wider significance in the Roman landscape.
The excavation report on a site at Friars Oak which produced
remains dating from the Mesolithic through to the Middle Saxon
periods. Evidence included prehistoric waterlogged deposits and
features from an early Roman settlement but the report focuses on
the Saxon occupation. Remains comprised sunken-featured buildings,
a post-hole structure and numerous pits and ditches and finds
included flint tools, metal and fired clay objects and worked wood.
The structures, with the artefactual and environmental evidence,
provide valuable information on the economy and society of Middle
Saxon West Sussex.
Flint was a vitally important resource for prehistoric societies
who put it to a diverse range of uses. Chris Butler has created a
concise guide to recognising and categorising British prehistoric
flintwork. The author begins by looking at the different sources of
flint that were exploited by prehistoric peoples, and explains why
flint was such a widely used raw material. He then discusses how to
recognise prehistoric worked flint and explores the different
technologies that were used to work flint and make tools.
Flintknapping techniques used in each period of prehistory are
illustrated, along with detailed techniques used in each period of
prehistory are illustrated, along with detailed descriptions of the
variety of implements produced and their associated diagnostic
waste material. The flintwork from a number of case-study sites and
the eventual decline in the importance of flint. The book also
explores what the analysis of flintwork can tell us about society
and past use of the landscape.
The West Sussex coast has always been vulnerable to attack across
the channel from mainland Europe and as a result has been strongly
defended from the possibility of such attach. In this book local
author and archaeologist Chris Butler looks at the defensive sites
surviving in the West Sussex landscape, the majority dating to the
Second World War. Although focusing on anti-invasion sites, a whole
range of defence sites are considered, including barracks,
airfields, training centres and civil defence sites such as
air-raid shelters. Using the author's own extensive knowledge and
fieldwork, this comprehensive study of defensive sites from the
Tudor period batteries to Cold War ROC underground monitoring
posts, explores the remains of these rapidly disappearing sites and
provides a guide for those readers interested in visiting the sites
for themselves. This is the companion volume to East Sussex under
attack, published by Tempus in 2007.
The East Sussex coastline has always been Britain's frontline
defence against invasion. From the forts of Henry VIII and the
Napoleonic Martello Towers to the pillboxes, gun emplacements and
civil defence sits of the two World Wars and the secret structures
of the Cold War, the evidence of the defences can still be seen.
Local author and archaeologist Chris Butler takes us to each of
these sites (approximately 200 in total), describing what is to be
seen today and their history. As well as a full range of
illustrations there are full directions to the cites and details of
access.
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