This book 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 book 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 the book uses conceptual fra ... More

This book 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 book 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 the book uses conceptual frames to structure this discussion — boundaries, land, property, nature, identity (persons, peoples, and places), culture, time, and knowledge. These frames cut across the various subdivisions of law and geography described above and provides 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.