The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space

Foreword (Gordon L. Clark).

Preface: Where is law (David Delaney, Richard T. Ford, and Nicholas Blomley).

Acknowledgments. .

Part I: Legal Places.

Section 1: Public Space.

Introduction (Nicholas Blomley).

1. The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti-Homeless Laws in the United States (Don Mitchell).

2. Controlling Chronic Misconduct in City Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Skid Rows and Public-Space Zoning (Robert. C. Ellickson).

3. Girls and the Getaway: Cars, Culture, and the Predicament of Gendered Space (Carol. Sanger).

4. Out of Place: Symbolic Domains, Religious Rights and the Cultural Contract (Davina Cooper).

Section 2: Local Racisms and the Law.

Introduction (Richard T. Ford).

5. The Boundaries of Responsibility: Interpretations of Geography in School Desegregation Cases (David Delaney).

6. Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location (David Theo Goldberg).

7. The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis (Richard T. Ford).

8. The Legitimacy of Judicial Decision Making in the Context of Richmond v Croson (Gordon L. Clark).

Section 3: Property and the City.

Introduction (Nicholas Blomley).

9. Landscapes of Property (Nicholas Blomley).

10. Residential Rent Control (Margaret Radin).

11. Suspended in Space: Bedouins Under the Law of Israel (Ronen Shamir).

12. Picturesque Visions (Simon Ryan) .

Part II: National Legalities.

Section 1: State Formation and Legal Centralization.

Introduction (Richard T. Ford).

13. A Legal History of Cities (G. Frug).

14. Territorialization and State Power in Thailand (Peter Vandergeest and Nancy Lee Peluso).

15. Rabies Rides the Fast Train: Transnational Interactions in Post-Colonial Times (Eve Darian-Smith).

16. Law's Territory (A history of jurisdiction) (Richard T. Ford).

Section 2: Environmental Regulation.

Introduction (David Delaney).

17. Property Rights and the Economy of Nature: Understanding Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (Joseph Sax).

18. The Property Rights Movement: How it Began, Where it is Headed (Nancie Marzulla).

Part III: Globalization and Law.

Introduction (David Delaney).

19. 'Let Them Eat Cake': Globalization, Postmodern Colonialism and the Possibilities of Justice (Susan Silbey).

20. The View from the International Plane: Perspective and Scale in the Architecture of Colonial International Law (Annelise Riles).

21. Border Crossings: NAFTA, Regulatory Restructuring and the Politics of Place (Ruth Buchanan).

22. Anthropological Approaches to Law and Society in Conditions of Globalization (Rosemary Coombe).

Index.