| Title | PHARMAKON |
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| Subtitle | Urban Law and the Making of Johannesburg |
| Contributor | Eric Nyembezi Makoni(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.64449/9780639890005 |
| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/125 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Copyright | Eric Nyembezi Makoni; Marius Pieterse |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Publication place | Johannesburg |
| Published on | 2025-09-02 |
| ISBN | 978-0-6398899-9-3 (Paperback) |
| 978-0-6398900-0-5 (PDF) | |
| 978-0-6398900-2-9 (XML) | |
| 978-0-6398900-1-2 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | “This book is truly a pharmakon, a potion historically prescribed and a healing adventurously re-imagined. Pharmakon, as the title indicates, shows how the same thing that can be healing, can also poisons us." |
| Long abstract | “This book is truly a pharmakon, a potion historically prescribed and a healing adventurously re-imagined. Pharmakon, as the title indicates, shows how the same thing that can be healing, can also poisons us. Makoni takes us through the colonial and postcolonial lawscape of urban South Africa and especially Johannesburg, making a case for how injustice was established through planning laws, and all along trying to find ways in which justice can be achieved. This especially pernicious form of spatial violence is shown to have persevered throughout colonial history, with concrete examples of racial capitalism, where state and private initiatives were implicated. makoni shows how the law has been a conspirator of colonial racialisation, and a precious yet precarious compass to help navigate the post-apartheid lands – the law as true pharmakon, with the trophy of spatial justice in the centre of legal concerns.”Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Professor of Law & Theory / Artist / Fiction AuthorUniversity of Westminster, London |
| Print length | 246 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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