Legal geography III

Abstract

In the past year scholars have extended the reach of legal geography to a number of previously neglected areas of interest. Among these are non-Western, non-common law places; the sphere of the international, particularly the law of war; and the physical, other-than-human worlds. As they ventured into these areas legal geographers have also initiated or strengthened convergences with other critical projects such as political ecology, critical strands of international legal scholarship, legal anthropology, critical physical geography and critical animal studies.

Claiming geothermal water: Critical legal geography and the scalar politics of hot spring development in China

“…Law is not pre-defined, but is socially situated within power relations, reflecting social and spatial practices and producing space (Blomley, 2003b). In recent years, legal geography has been extended to previously under-researched topics such as other-than-human worlds, which has strengthened its convergence with political geography (Delaney, 2017;Panelli, 2010). Engaging critical legal geography enables us to recognise the shifting legal realms challenged by the complexities of nature, and by new understandings of ecosystems, as well as how natural landscapes are reshaped by legal realms (Craig, 2009;Doremus, 2010;Kay, 2016;Ruhl, 2010).…”

New Water Regimes: An Editorial

“…In particular, scholarship on critical legal geographies has sought to develop a better understanding of the interactions between law and place/space [1,2]. Legal geography, which starts from the premise that law, society, and space are co-constituted, has expanded significantly in recent years [2,3]. Of particular interest to this special issue, recent scholarship within legal geography has begun to examine the co-production of law and more-than-human environments [3].…”

“…Legal geography, which starts from the premise that law, society, and space are co-constituted, has expanded significantly in recent years [2,3]. Of particular interest to this special issue, recent scholarship within legal geography has begun to examine the co-production of law and more-than-human environments [3]. Meanwhile, an often-separate literature on the "hydrosocial cycle" has examined political economies and ecologies of water resource governance [4,5].…”

Legal geography 1: Court materiality

“…In these three progress reports, I will explore legal geography through an examination of scholarly work on trial spaces. The past three years has seen the production of three fielddefining progress reports by David Delaney (2015, 2016a, 2016b examining the nature of legal geography, its emergence, strengths and future possibilities. This work has advanced our understanding of the role and potential of geographical concepts in understanding legal systems, codes and jurisdictions.…”