This open access book presents a legal geography of property rights in land
through the lenses of landscape and critical spatial justice. It seeks to reassert
the importance of landscape and place in property as an alternative to abstract
concepts of property which dominate contemporary thinking. It investigates
property’s origins and uptake in the common law through the lenses of landscape
and spatial justice, providing a genealogy of property, from its early origins in
pre-feudal Scandinavia to its development as a cornerstone concept in English
common law. It offers a new perspective and analytical tools to reconsider many
accepted approaches to land in the law today. This book also contributes both to
the decolonization of property law and critiques of property’s unsustainability, as
well as the examination of the role of law itself in facilitating large scale land
changes that destroy place, and the ramifications of this process. As such, it
should be of interest to inter-disciplinary scholars working in the socio-legal,
environmental and property law fields
By:
Amanda Byer Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication: Switzerland Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Weight: 303g ISBN:9783031319938 ISBN 10: 3031319931 Series:Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies Pages: 70 Publication Date:15 June 2023 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land.- 2. Placing Property in the Landscape.- 3. Locke and the Homogenisation of the Landscape.- 4. Blackstone and the Externalisation of Landscape.- 5. Marx and the Dephysicalisation of the Landscape.- 6. Extinguishing Landscape, Creating Property: Property and Spatial Injustice.- 7. Progressive Property: A Spatially Just Approach to Property?.- 8. Conclusion: Property’s Placelessness.
Amanda Byer is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland.