The Legal Geographies Reader Law, Power and

This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relation between law and geography in an effort to clarify the connections between these two increasingly complex concepts.

Nicholas Blomley is Associate Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and the author of the highly acclaimed Law, Space and the Geographies of Power.

David Delaney is a lecturer in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, Massachusetts and the author of Race, Place and the Law.

Richard T. Ford is Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University, California and has published in the Harvard, Stanford and Michigan Law Reviews and internationally in legal and social science journals.

List of contributors

viii

Foreword

x

Gordon L. Clark

Preface: Where is law?

xiii

David Delaney

Richard T. Ford

Nicholas Blomley

Acknowledgments

xxiii

Part I Legal Places

1

(2)

Section I Public space

3

(49)

Introduction

3

(3)

Nicholas Blomley

The annihilation of space by law: The roots and implications of anti-homeless laws in the United States

6

(13)

Don Mitchell

Controlling chronic misconduct in city spaces: Of panhandlers, skid rows, and public-space zoning

19

(12)

Robert C. Ellickson

Girls and the getaway: Cars, culture, and the predicament of gendered space

31

(11)

Carol Sanger

Out of place: Symbolic domains, religious rights and the cultural contract

42

(10)

Davina Cooper

Section 2 Local racisms and the law

52

(63)

Introduction

52

(2)

Richard T. Ford

The boundaries of responsibility: Interpretations of geography in school desegregation cases

54

(15)

David Delaney

`Polluting the body politic': Race and urban location

69

(18)

David T. Goldberg

The boundaries of race: Political geography in legal analysis

87

(18)

Richard T. Ford

The legitimacy of judicial decision making in the context of Richmond v. Croson

105

(10)

Gordon L. Clark

Section 3 Property and the city

115

(36)

Introduction

115

(3)

Nicholas Blomley

Landscapes of property

118

(11)

Nicholas Blomley

Residential rent control

129

(6)

Margaret J. Radin

Suspended in space: Bedouins under the law of Israel

135

(8)

Ronen Shamir

Picturesque visions

143

(8)

Simon Ryan

Part II National Legalities

151

(1)

Section I State formation and legal centralization

152

(66)

Introduction

152

(2)

Richard T. Ford

A legal history of cities

154

(23)

Gerald Frug

Territorialization and state power in Thailand

177

(10)

Peter Vandergeest

Nancy L. Peluso

Rabies rides the fast train: Transnational interactions in post-colonial times

187

(13)

Eve Darian-Smith

Law's territory (A history of jurisdiction)

200

(18)

Richard T. Ford

Section 2 Environmental regulation

218

(33)

Introduction

218

(3)

David Delaney

Property rights and the economy of nature: Understanding Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council

221

(16)

Joseph L. Sax

Property rights movement: How it began and where it is headed

237

(14)

Nancie G. Marzulla

Part III Globalization and Law

251

(68)

Introduction

252

(4)

David Delaney

``Let them eat cake'': Globalization, postmodern colonialism, and the possibilities of justice

256

(20)

Susan S. Silbey

The view from the international plane: Perspective and scale in the architecture of colonial international law

276

(9)

Annelise Riles

Border crossings: NAFTA, regulatory restructuring, and the politics of place

285

(13)

Ruth Buchanan

Anthropological approaches to law and society in conditions of globalization

298

(21)

Rosemary J. Coombe

Index

319

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The Legal Geographies Reader Law, Power and Space

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