Call for papers: Legal mappings.
Paper proposals are invited for a special session on law and space, to be
held at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers,
23-29 March, 1998, in Boston, MA. Recent years have seen growing interest
in the critical explorations of the interface between legal ordering and
the geographies of social life. A previously undertheorised area has
become a focus for extended exploration. Publications in various fields -
including law, sociology, anthropology and geography - have begun to make
sense of the manner in which legal practice and discourse serves to produce
often politicised spaces, and, in turn, how the socially produced places
and spaces of social life serve to constitute legal processes.
Given recent developments in the area, it seems timely to try and gather
interested scholars in an interdisciplinary exploration of the geographies
of law. Papers are invited around three core themes:
a) Property/space: How does 'space' come to be owned? What are the
consequences for social and political
relations, and for resistance against dominant legal norms? What role
does the map play in the legal orderings of property? How is 'nature'
produced, as a legal space?
b) Law, place and space: How does law figure in the production of
places? What role does local consciousness play in legal ordering? What
legal movements and tensions exist between localised places and a global
'space of flows'?
c) Theorising legal mappings: How can we best theorise the relations
between law and space? Is it possible to move beyond the dualities that
set the two apart? How can we make sense of the implication of law and
space in broader social relations and forms of oppression and resistance?
Submissions are invited. Please contact Nick Blomley ([log in to unmask]) with
a brief outline (250 words maximum) of a proposed paper by JULY 15. More
information on the conference is available at http://www.aag.org.
Nick Blomley
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6,
Canada
Tel: (604) 291-3713
Fax: (604) 291-5841
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
(604) 291-5841 (fax)
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