num_pages: 259
description: This illuminating new volume offers a ground-breaking exploration into the intriguing and politically significant relationship between law and geography. Nicholas K. Blomley asserts that space and law, rather than being fixed, objective categories, have a crucial bearing on the deployment of power and the structuring of social life. Arguing that the geographies of law can be powerful--even oppressive--in combination with their implied claims concerning social life, Blomley clearly demonstrates how, over the last two centuries, legal judgment has entailed the adjudication of issues of power and space.
language: English
title: Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power
titlecomplete: Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power
ratings_count: 8
publisher: The Guilford Press