Newly published Geoforum article by Onyx Sloan Morgan examines how, in contexts of wildfire, “property insurance widens pre-existing social and legal disparities as animated through settler colonially by allowing some to 'build back’ and remain 'in place’ while others cannot.” 🔥 #legalgeography
🔇 New paper out in AREA!
Based on my DFG-funded ethnographic work on eviction trials in German district courts, the paper explores how legality is felt, lived, and negotiated through bodies, atmospheres, and everyday encounters.
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#geosyk #courtroomethnography #legalgeography #evictions
Entrance door of the Hamburg-Mitte District Court — a glass and metal doorway set in a light stone facade with the sign “Exit” above it.
Two days at the District Court of Hamburg-Mitte, observing eviction hearings — a window into how law and everyday life collide.
What stands out again and again: how differently these cases unfold depending on who’s in the room. 1/2 ⤵️
#geosky #legalgeography
A pdf with the second half of the pdf, saying: We invite empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions that explore how crisis is lived and made, and how legal, political-economic, and infrastructural formations shape (and are shaped by) everyday urbanism. Possible themes include: Housing precarity, eviction, displacement & debt as ordinary geographies Materiality of housing & infrastructures of insecurity Everyday endurance, resistance & solidarity Urban governance, austerity & normalization of crisis Grassroots housing justice & alternative futures Critical/experimental methods (ethnography, walking, mapping, audiovisual) Comparative & translocal perspectives
▶️ We’re organizing an #AAG2026 session on ordinary crisis & everyday urbanism.
📩 Abstracts due Oct 20
Send abstract (≤250 words) + short bio → klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk
#HousingCrisis #LegalGeography #Urbanism
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Thanks to everyone whose insights shaped this work.
We welcome your thoughts, critiques, and reflections.
📖 Read the full article here:
doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
#feministgeopolitics #legalgeography #ICC #geographiesofjustice
OnlineFirst - "Discipline all the way down: Law and capital in Shaina Potts’ Judicial Territory" by Rachel Phillips:
#geographicalpoliticaleconomy #globalization #law #legalgeography #capitalism
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[5/5] Les droits de la nature incarnent un changement de paradigme : faire reconnaître la valeur intrinsèque des milieux. Ce mouvement juridique, encore jeune, ne réglera pas tout, mais il invite à repenser collectivement notre rapport à la Terre. #geography #legalgeography #natureasrights
In our new article, we stress the importance of exploring barriers to accessing justice as an agglomeration of various spatiotemporal settings and diverse legal/normative orders of different scales.
#AccessToJustice #IraqiWomen #LegalGeography
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Two years ago, I defended my PhD on citizenship in #ECOWAS and #ASEAN. I am thrilled to be back at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg to discuss fieldwork insights from my postdoc project #REMOBILISE on how people navigate free movement law
#LegalGeography #Borders #Ghana
Focusing on heirship property and legal access in Southwest Louisiana, Hannah’s work reveals how law and recovery co-produce vulnerability—and how legal geography can help us trace that entanglement.
#LegalGeography #DisasterRecovery #Property #AAG2025 #GradStudentAward #ClimateJustice
Sharp, timely, and deeply grounded, Andrea’s work shows how private property claims shape and challenge national borders.
#LegalGeography #GradStudentAward #AAG2025 #Borders #Property #Territory
Huge thanks to @goetheuni.bsky.social for backing this idea early on 🙏
I’m excited to dig deeper and develop this with my collaborator (@kbrickell.bsky.social) + conversations across #legalgeography #urbanstudies #criticalfinance
More soon. And if you’re working on similar stuff—let’s connect!
📍 Don’t miss this urgent and timely talk!
#LegalGeography #Homelessness #UrbanJustice #AAG2025 #Geosky
A must-read for those of us caught within a world clinging to antiquated notions of property, and who imagines an order more beautiful, more just, more grounded in place and communities
#climatechange #justice #internationallaw #property #landscape #legalhistory #legalgeography
My new progress report about the concept of #place in #legalgeography
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First post here so sharing my recent paper on contract analysis in legal geographical research. A framework for 'doing' legal geography and unravelling socio-spatial power #legalgeography #criticallegalgeography doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
This project looks amazing! Congrats @mariethogersen.bsky.social - I look forward to reading the outputs 🤩
#legalgeography #CLG #criticallegalgeography #ecolegalgeography
Thank you, Katherine, for your visit, your thought-provoking keynote, and the enriching dialogue! I’m looking forward to the next steps in our collaboration. 🚀
#CriticalUrbanStudies #LegalGeography #HousingJustice #DebtTrap #ResearchNetworks #AcademicExchange
📢 New Joint Publication (together with Katherine Brickell, Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Ariel Ahearn, Sydney Calkin and me)📢
Read more here: acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
#LegalGeography #ScholarActivism #SocialJustice #geosky #ACMEJournal #HousingJustice
