Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective
Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective
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DOI：
10.1111/1745-5871.12035
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Williams, Stewart
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作者：
Bartel, Robyn;Graham, Nicole;Williams, Stewart
法律对人和地方有着强大的影响力。法律既创造了人与地方的关系，又被人与地方的关系所创造，尽管它很少承认这一点。法律常常表现得好像空间并不重要。因此，法律和法律的过程值得地理学家给予更多的关注。法律的地理学是一个新兴的研究领域，它促进了对环境、人和社会制度之间相互关系的迫切关注，包括正式法律，但也包括非正式规则、规范和传说。法律的地理学家试图使不可见的变得可见：将法律纳入地理学的框架，并将空间和地点纳入法律的焦点。无论是关键的和应用的方法，法律的地理学提供了描述性，分析性和规范性的洞察经济，司法，财产，权力，地缘政治，治理和规模。因此，它可以丰富地理调查的大多数领域，并有助于当前关于空间和地点管理的政策辩论。法律的地理学是对关系性、物质性、多尺度性和能动性的一种扩大的理解，它可以用来对法律进行审视和改革。地理研究的一个特殊主题论文部分的介绍提供了一个关于法律的地理学术的窗口，包括它的历史，贡献和抱负。该文集中的论文探讨了以法律的地理学范式为基础的问题，在进行更广泛的理论辩论并使用澳大利亚和国际案例研究的同时，对经验详细的问题进行了各种分析。
Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and social institutions, including formal laws but also informal rules, norms and lore. Legal geographers seek to make the invisible visible: to bring the law into the frame of geography, and space and place into focus for the law. Both critical and applied in approach, legal geography offers descriptive, analytical and normative insight into economics, justice, property, power, geopolitics, governance and scale. As such it can enrich most areas of geographic inquiry as well as contribute to current policy debates about the regulation of space and place. Legal geography is a way for enlarged appreciations of relationality, materiality, multiscalarity and agency to be used to interrogate and reform the law. This introduction to a special themed paper' section of Geographical Research provides a window on legal geography scholarship, including its history, contribution and ambition. The papers in the collection explore issues grounded in the legal geographies paradigm, variously analysing matters empirically detailed while engaging in broader, theoretical debates and using both Australian and international case studies.