Legal Geography - Comparative Law and the Production of Space (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law. Traditionally, legal-geographical interrelations have been dominated by scholars with backgrounds in geopolitics, economics, or geography. More recently, a new interdisciplinary approach has been developed with the aim of offering a fresh perspective on how law and geography intersect. There has been a steady growth in cross-disciplinary research in this field; how legal-geographical taxonomies interrelate has attracted attention from scholars and academics with a diverse range of backgrounds - namely, law, anthropology, and human/physical geography -, thus giving rise to several publications. Against this backdrop, the book adopts a legal comparative perspective and assesses 'normative spatialities', which are the outcomes of processes of legal-spatial production. In addition, the comparative analysis offers readers new insights on some traditional geographic features which are essential to legal studies (territorial identity, regional demarcation, territorial alternation, and place-name policy). Examples are drawn from several jurisdictions (both from the Global North and the Global South) and partly employ a diachronic perspective. As its subversive character is ideally suited to revealing policies and agendas, comparative law is used to identify the ethnocentric and colonial biases underpinning the use (and misuse) of legal geographic devices by policymakers and academics. In sum, the book presents legal geography as an interdisciplinary undertaking in which geographers and legal scholars can jointly examine common concepts in the historical, cultural, political and social contexts in which law is practised. The book transcends the boundaries between disciplines to engage in a fruitful dialogue on how the law can help to address the current socio-geographic and ecological crises.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 105
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Matteo Nicolini
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-119409-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Comparative law Books > Earth & environment > Geography > General
LSN:	3-03-119409-8
Barcode:	9783031194092

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