scholarly journals Practising Legal Geography

Area ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Brickell ◽  
Alex Jeffrey ◽  
Fiona McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Legal Geography

scholarly journals Restricting spatial lives? The gendered implications of conservation in Cambodia’s protected wetlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Perry ◽  
Josephine Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
Legal Geography ◽  
Environmental Interactions ◽  
Tonle Sap ◽  
Gendered Roles

Environmental conservation through the creation of protected areas is recognised as a key tactic in the fight against degrading ecosystems worldwide. Understanding the implications of protected area regimes on both places and people is an important part of the protection agenda. In this context and in this paper, we build on the work of feminist legal geographers and feminist political ecologists to enhance our understanding of the constitution of localised socio-legal-environmental interactions in and around protected areas. Our approach looks to developments in feminist and legal geographic thought to examine the interactions between identities, law and the environment in a Ramsar protected wetland on the Tonle Sap, Cambodia. We bring together legal geography perspectives regarding the spatiality of law with insights from feminist political ecology examining gendered roles and exclusions. We found that conservation areas interact in complex ways with local pre-existing norms prescribing female weakness and vulnerability which, ultimately, restrict women’s spatial lives.

Special issue: legal geography/ies

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Graham ◽  
Robyn Bartel
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Legal Geography

Gated Communities in Law's Gaze: Material Forms and the Production of a Social Body in Legal Adjudication

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 635-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Levi
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Homeowner Associations ◽  
Legal Geography ◽  
Boundary Disputes ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
Legal Contexts

This article focuses on the legal geography of gated communities. Sociolegal research has paid comparatively little attention to how specific material forms fare within legal contexts. Drawing on work in legal geography and in science and technology studies, this article isolates judicial decisions that deal with the borders of gated communities from other cases involving private homeowner associations. By focusing on these boundary disputes in which outsiders are excluded from the area, this article finds that courts are resisting the localism presented by gated communities and are instead articulating a social imaginary in which the landscape flows uninterrupted by the exclusionary presence of gates. In contrast to the privatopia literature, this article finds that courts are not complicit in promoting neoliberal visions of community. The social imaginary being developed by courts resists the spatial differentiation of gated communities, producing in its place a thoroughly modern polity in which legal, economic, and political relations flow easily between those inside and outside the gate.

scholarly journals Entanglements of Law and Space: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Michał Dudek ◽  
Piotr Eckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Legal Geography ◽  
Current State

Introduction to the thematic volume of Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica – devoted to the issue of law and space – provides basic context for the publication, placing special emphasis on the current state of legal geographical inquiries conducted by Polish scholars. Moreover, it briefly presents each article in the volume and comments on articles’ selected aspects to show how they can be located within the entire broad legal geography scholarship.

scholarly journals REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES FOR THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF NORTHEAST

Mercator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2020) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Luiz Ugeda
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Brazilian Population ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Northeast Region ◽  
Legal Geography ◽  
Brazilian Legislation ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Legal Construction ◽  
Made In

The Northeast is a concept that is crystallized in the unconscious of the Brazilian population, designating a geographically located portion of the national territory. This article proposes to revisit the construction of this concept from a political and legal perspective, showing the choices made in each historical period to provide the intended regional development through institutions such as Chesf, DNOCS, and Codevasf, among others. The conclusion points to possible ways to reinvent the region, mainly due to the concept of the Matopiba. The study follows Geolegal methodology by using a historiographical base of the legal facts (Brazilian legislation) to produce a geographical value (regional development of the Northeast). Keywords: Codevasf, DNOCS, São Francisco River, Drought Polygon, Northeast Region, Legal Geography

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