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2 - Law and Territory: A Legal Geography

from Part I - Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2020

Marie-Eve Sylvestre ,
Nicholas Blomley  and
Céline Bellot
Marie-Eve Sylvestre
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Nicholas Blomley
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Céline Bellot
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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Summary

Chapter 2 establishes the theoretical and conceptual grounds on which the study lies, arguing that we can usefully conceive of spatial conditions of release through the lens of critical legal geography, emphasizing the work of law in producing powerful spatiotemporal arrangements and representations that act upon the social world. Spatial conditions of release are as a form of legal territorialisation, or a strategic attempt at structuring socio-legal relations through the configuring of space and time. By territorializing a set of legal commands, legal actors aim to communicate, classify, enforce, and legitimize. Focusing on the practical work of spatial conditions of release directs us to the work they do in organizing socio-legal relations. In particular, the authors note the complex and simultaneous relational work of “cutting” and “joining” they entail.

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critical legal geographyterritoryspatialization of lawtimeterritorialization of lawlegal violence
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Red Zones
Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People
 , pp. 23 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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