Law and Geography
Jane Holder, Carolyn Harrison - Oxford University Press, 2003
This volume explores the relationship between law and geography,
especially with respect to taken-for-granted distinctions between the
social and the material, the human and non-human, and what constitutes
persons and things. As a genuinely reflective 'Law and Geography'
project, this collection offers interdisciplinary inquiry, particularly
in response to globalisation - of law, commerce, environmental change
and society - which renders relations between the local and the global
more significant. Because of the sheer expansiveness and complexity of
both law and geography we use conceptual frames to structure this volume
- boundaries, land, property, nature, identity (persons, peoples and
places), culture and time, and knowledge. These frames cut across the
various subdivisions of law and geography described above and provide a
route into the various practical and theoretical deliberations on the
interrelationship and interstices of law and geography which follow. The
chapters are diverse in style, research methodology, and subject matter
(organ transplants, lawn mowing, settler states, archaeological
remains, shopping, gay nightclubbing, seeds, common space).
