Table of contents - Special Issue: Law and Geography
Law, sex and the city: regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales
Philip HubbardThis paper aims to explore how municipal law, in its various guises, serves to police the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct by considering how Sexual Entertainment Venues…
Legal orderings of waste in built spaces
Kate Parizeau, Josh Lepawsky– This paper aims to investigate by what means and to what ends waste, its materiality and its symbolic meanings are legally regulated in built environments.
Illegal geographies of the state: the legalisation of a “squatter” settlement in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Craig HatcherThis paper aims to problematise the relation between “legality” and the state, through a case study analysis of law at work within the built environment. In doing so, the paper…
‘Temporary’ relocation: spaces of contradiction in South African law
Duncan RanslemThis study aims to examine how temporary relocation areas (TRAs), urban forms that facilitate evictions and forced relocations, have been written into South African legal and…
Grounding accumulation by dispossession in everyday life: The unjust geographies of urban regeneration under the Private Finance Initiative
Stuart Hodkinson, Chris EssenThis paper aims to ground Harvey’s (2003) top-down theory of “accumulation by dispossession” in the everyday lives of people and places with specific focus on the role of law. It…