Presentation

This seminar brings together five presentations that discuss legal spatiality in a diversity of contests from the North and the South. These contexts have in common fast-paced spatial and urban transitions, driven by land reclamation, real estates, and the construction of infrastructure. They introduce a diversity of research questions and themes that concern the governance of water (lakes, the sea) and reclaimed land, institutionalised informality, legal disputes, and the production of energy infrastructure. Across this diversity of cases and contexts, the seminar has a twofold ambition : Contribute to the debate on research methods on legal geography and to the circulation of theories and concepts between Northern and Southern contexts.

Programme

10h00 : Introductions : Methodological Bricolage in Legal Geography
Adèle Esposito, Geography – Researcher, Géographie-cités / CNRS
& Mathieu Gigot, Development and urban planning – Assistant Professor, Géographie-cités / Université Paris Cité

10h15 : Coastal Transformation and Indigenous Rights to the Sea : The Case of the Orang Selatar in Johor Malaysia
Pierpaolo De Giosa, Social Anthropology – Postdoctoral Fellow, Géographie-cités)

11h00 : Who Governs the Lake ? The Governance and Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Peri-Urban Lake Ecosystems
Anand Akshay, Architecture and Urban Planning – Researcher, University of Twente, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation/ITC

12h00 : Pourquoi s’intéresser finement aux mécanismes juridiques quand on travaille sur la gouvernance territoriale en géographie ? Quelques exemples à partir du nexus énergie-territoire
Emmanuelle Santoire, Geography – Researcher, LATTS / CNRS

12h45 : Discussion

13h15 : Lunch Break

14h30 : The Legal Production of Informal Space
Francesco Chiodelli, Urban and Regional Development – Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino

15h15 : It is Always about the Law : “Legal Fetishism” and Informality at the Heart of the Large Development Program
Adèle Esposito, Geography – Researcher, Géographie-cités / CNRS

16h00 : Roundtable – Avenues for Further Research : Themes & Methods

References Comaroff J. and J., 2006, “Law and Disorder in the Postcolony“, Social Anthropology, 15(2) : 133-152. Herzfeld M., 2002, “The Absent Presence : Discourses of Crypto-Colonialism“, South Atlantic Quarterly, 101(4) : 899–926. Melé P., 2010, “Actualisation locale du droit”, séminaire Géographie et droit, géographie du droit, PRODIG-CERSA, Oct. 2011, Carcassonne. Singh P., 2019, “Of International Law, Semi-colonial Thailand, and Imperial Ghosts“, Asian Journal of International Law, 9 : 46-74.

17h00 : Closure

Contact : marion.gentilhomme@univ-paris1.fr

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