Association of American Geographers Conference
Tampa Florida April 8-12, 2014
Organizer: John Carr, University of New Mexico (carrj@unm.edu)
While traditional approaches to understanding the law often
draw stark divisions between the legal sphere and matters of culture and place,
theorists informed by Critical Legal Studies and other forms of critical theory
have long treated these borders as permeable. Given the powerful ways that the
law informs cultural understandings of place, and in-turn is undergirded by
often latent understandings of place, work investigating these imbricated
influences continues to be essential.
Accordingly, we invite papers for this session that explore
such topics as:
- The ways the law codifies and/or challenges cultural
understandings of place
- The geographic imaginations that animate the
juridicial realm.
- The potential for work bridging legal,
cultural and/or geographic research
- The spatio-cultural work that the legal system
does
- The mutually constitutive roles of place as a social
construction and the law as an institution of meaning and power
In doing so, we hope to shed light on both what legal
geography has to offer cultural geography, and what cultural geography has to
offer legal geography. We invite research originating from any theoretical and
methodological perspective.
Interested contributors should contact carrj@unm.edu and submit abstracts
by November 15, 2013.
