| Popis: |
What do landscapes reveal about law? In Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law, Nicole Graham argues that landscapes are shaped by legal regulation, and reflect the archetypal characteristics of Western property law, such as the discourse of improvement and the dephysicalised concept of property in which the material limits of places have no bearing on the rights of owners to use them. More basically, it reflects the prior distinction between culture and nature that makes of environment and property two separate domains. In reviewing the book, I focus on the concept of nomadism as a useful foil to Graham’s argument about place and placelessness in property law. My conclusion is that the argument against placelessness finds a larger home than in property law per se. |
