Legal geography II: The possibilities and disruptions of place

Abstract

This second progress report addresses the understanding of place in legal geography, and asks how it resonates with the wider philosophies and conceptualizations of place. By taking four viewpoints to place – territory and location, legal signification, law on the move, and place agency – the report argues that place thinking can offer intellectual tools for overcoming territorial legal thinking, and for acknowledging the legal relevance of situations and places that fall outside of a sovereign legal system. There is also potential for refreshing the rather stagnant human geographical discussions on the concept of place more widely.