Critical legal geography is practised by an increasing number of
scholars in various disciplines, but it has not had the benefit of
an overarching theoretical framework that might overcome its
currently rather ad hoc character. The Spatial, the Legal and the
Pragmatics of World-Making remedies this situation. Presenting a
balanced convergence of contemporary socio-legal and critical
geographic scholarship, David Delaney offers a ground-breaking
contribution to the fast growing field of legal geography. Drawing
on strands of critical social studies that inform both of these
areas, this book has three primary components. First, it introduces
a framework of interpretation and analysis centred on the
productive neologisms nomosphere and nomoscapes . Nomosphere refers
to the cultural-material environs that are constituted by the
reciprocal materialization of the legal and the legal signification
of the socio-spatial'. Nomoscapes are the spatio-legal expression
and the socio-material realization of ideologies, values, pervasive
power orders and social projects. They are extensive ensembles of
legal spaces within and through which lives are lived and, here,
these neologisms are related to the more familiar notions of
governmentality and performativity. Second, these neologisms are
explored and applied through a series of illustrations and
extensive case studies. Demonstrating their utility for scholars
and students in relevant disciplines, these empirical studies
concern: the public and the private; property and land tenure;
governance; the domestic and the international; and legal-spatial
confinements and containments. Third, these studies contribute to
an ongoing theorization of the experiential, situated pragmatics of
world-making'. The role of nomospheric projects and
counter-projects, techniques and operations is therefore
emphasized. Much of what is experientially significant about how
the world is as it is and what it 's like to be in the world
directly implicates the dynamic interplay of space, law, meaning
and power. The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of
World-Making provides the interpretive resources necessary for
discerning and understanding the practices and projects involved in
this interplay.
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