Seeking Spatial Justice

discourses of labor protest in a new market economy. A big emphasis of the collection is on the black press and the hypocrisies of state power in the context of press mechanisms, for example the African-American Press and the Holocaust. The essays of the third section thus focus upon how the black press has positioned itself as counterpoint to mass media as a critical collector of information otherwise not available in the mainstream press. Olga Davis’ essay investigates the topic in more detail by focusing on the rhetoric of the black press on the example of ‘The Tulsa Star’. Finally, and for all Habermas lovers, his theory of public spheres as a rational base of transgressive rhetoric is not forgotten; the last section consequently addresses the normative contours of the state and oppositional discourses. In this section, the article on the ‘philosophical foundations of the discourse society’ by Darryl Gunson is to be highlighted, as it defends the theory of Habermas against some critics. In return, Michael Huspek takes on the idea and finds it to be limited as it overestimates the communicative options when asymmetries of power are in play. Can oppositional discourses be sustained over time as countervailing forces against states’ structural resistances to increased democratization? This question, raised in the introduction of the collection, might be too complex to be answered in the same manner for all manifestations of discourses. However, the collected contributions give a broad overview of the relationships between oppositional discourses and those of the state and the related distributions of power. It does so both by addressing participants’ experiences of empowerment and disempowerment and by describing anti-normative voices and their function for modern democracies with respect to different cases.