Publications

Authors:

Nicolini, Matteo

Title:

The Land, the Sea, and the Colonial Production of Space within the Anglo/British Empire

Year:

2024

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Legalities. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society

ISSN of journal:

2634-3770

N° Volume:

4

Number or Folder:

1

Page numbers:

43-67

Keyword:

Comparative Law; Legal Geography; Spatial production; Age of Discovery; Anglo/British Empire; British Colonial Legal Places; Oceanic spaces

Short description of contents:

The manufacturing of colonial legal spatialities in the Age of Discovery has traditionally been studied by historians, human geographers, and cartographers. Seldom have legal scholars examined it. This essay aims to fill the gap in legal research and assesses processes of spatial production that took place in colonies by adopting a legal-geographical approach. Special attention is paid to how the English, and later British Empires manufactured both terrestrial and oceanic spaces. The essay maintains that, within what this article calls the ‘Anglo/British Empire’, the integrated geographies of land and sea were facilitated by some intrinsic qualities of the English common law. Its legal coding devised a holistic approach that captured the whole earth even beyond the divide between land and sea.

Web page:

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/legal.2024.0064

Product ID:

139784

Handle IRIS:

11562/1126869

Last Modified:

May 25, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Nicolini, Matteo, The Land, the Sea, and the Colonial Production of Space within the Anglo/British Empire «Legalities. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society» , vol. 4 , n. 1 , 2024 , pp. 43-67

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