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Practising legal geography
Author(s) -
Brickell Katherine,
Jeffrey Alex,
McConnell Fiona
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12734
Subject(s) - praxis , critical geography , sociology , embodied cognition , politics , epistemology , injustice , trace (psycholinguistics) , perspective (graphical) , human geography , legal practice , historical geography , social science , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Abstract Legal geography is experiencing a “practice turn.” Understanding the material, spatial, and embodied characteristics of law is illuminating hitherto obscured experiences of justice, injustice, and political practice. It is contributions from scholars at the forefront of these concerns, from geography and cognate disciplines, that comprise the papers in the Practising legal geography special section. Across seven papers we are seeking to explore the ways in which a focus on practice can deepen our understanding of the methods and praxis of legal geography. Following an outline of its conceptual underpinnings and origins of the research, we give a short account of each of the papers and point to areas of future research for which they provide provocation. Practice emerges as much more than empirical detail – it is a perspective through which we can trace the operation of power and struggle in the making of law.