Islam, legal geography and methodological challenges in Indonesia

Legal geography I: Everyday law

“…Legal geographical scholarship has much potential to develop the understanding of subjectivities further, for instance in relation to the gendered and transgendered violence (e.g., Brickell, 2021) that has mostly been debated in specific contexts (e.g., in relation to Islamic law and Muslim feminism: Schenk, 2019Schenk, , 2020Schenk and Hasbullah, 2022) with less effort made to discuss the topic as an urgent legal geographical question. Exceptions include feminist geo-legality (Brickell and Cuomo, 2019) that has significantly advanced intersectional and relational approaches in the analyses of the complexities of law and gender.…”

Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship

“…Furthermore, some legal geographers have pushed this line of questioning even further, to peel back Western notions and structures of law to highlight the very different epistemological approaches to law from Indigenous perspectives. This is evident in the publication of papers about the reality of legally plural landscapes (see a Geographical Journal Special Issue ‘Legal Pluralisms, Justice and Spatial Conflicts: New Directions in Legal Geography’, edited by Charpleix, 2018; Gillespie, 2018; Robinson and Graham, 2018; Schenk, 2018 and also Schenk, 2020). Dominant modes of Western law-making and simultaneous ‘world-making’ occur through parliamentary deliberations, statute making and also from the influence of supra-national agreements such as international environmental law and free trade agreements and, for the global south, these inevitably have been passed on through colonisation processes.…”