Legal geography: An Australian perspective

摘要: Law is a powerful influence on people and place. both creates created by the relationship between place, although it rarely acknowledges this. frequently operates as if space does not matter. legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed to interrelationships among environment, social institutions, including formal laws but also informal rules, norms lore. geographers seek make invisible visible: bring law into frame geography, place focus for law. Both critical applied in approach, offers descriptive, analytical normative insight economics, justice, property, power, geopolitics, governance scale. As such can enrich most areas geographic well contribute current policy debates about regulation way enlarged appreciations relationality, materiality, multiscalarity agency be used interrogate reform This introduction special ‘themed paper’ section Geographical Research provides window scholarship, its history, contribution ambition. The papers collection explore issues grounded geographies paradigm, variously analysing matters empirically detailed while engaging broader, theoretical and using Australian international case studies.