Where to from here? From law to place and back again

Robyn Bartel; Jennifer Carter

doi:10.4337/9781788977203.00048

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Where to from here? From law to place and back again

Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter

Handbook on Space, Place and Law, pp.382-400

Edward Elgar Publishing

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977203.00048

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Abstract

Social and Cultural Geography

Human Geography

Law and Society

Environmental Law

Urban Studies

Planning

Our space in the Universe - planet Earth - and our continued place on it, are currently challenged by human activities, particularly those governed by ontologies of human entitlement and exceptionalism, and despite decades of environmental laws tasked with limiting anthropogenic impact and protecting non-human life and systems. Successive regulatory failures and short-comings, supplemented and compounded by sub-optimal human behaviours, suggest that anthropocentric law may not be best placed to achieve the aims desired and engender the necessary shift in thinking required. Notwithstanding their environmental deterministic connotations, natural laws (Smith 2010), place laws (Bartel 2018), that acknowledge the influence of the biophysical world and of geography, and which reflect relational-material appreciations, and architecture (Lessig 1998), as here extended to moral architecture, may have potential. These more plural geocentric (Lynn 1998) and also omnicentric (Charpleix 2020) approaches may be better suited to answering the complex social and ecological questions of the Anthropocene, given that they decentre the human and provide greater recognition of non-human agency.

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Title: Where to from here? From law to place and back again
Authors: Robyn Bartel (Author) - University of New England
Jennifer Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
Contributors: Robyn Bartel (Editor) - University of New England
Jennifer Carter (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
Publication details: Handbook on Space, Place and Law, pp.382-400; 19
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781788977203.00048; 10.4337/9781788977203
ISBN: 9781788977203
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; Sustainability Research Centre
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99529608102621
Output Type: Book chapter

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