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This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the juridical thinking that has enshrined the land/sea divide into contemporary governmental infrastructures, disciplinary traditions, and regulatory apparatuses, and charts the disastrous implications that such a legal fixation on the land/sea binary has wrought on human and other-than-human lifeworlds. As the collection proceeds, a second broad theme emerges, building on the first: when one rethinks the abstraction of law as played out on the ground, the “ground” itself shifts and fundamental divisions between land and sea that serve as the foundations of Western law are undermined. “A first step in this process,” as John Gillis states in his archeological challenge to the Garden of Eden myth, “is to recognize that land and water are opposites but inseparable parts of an ecological continuum”.
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Publication Date
8-3-2022
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781032070629
Keywords
Earth Sciences, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Humanities, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
Disciplines
Earth Sciences | Environmental Sciences | Geography | Law
Recommended Citation
Braverman, Irus, "Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land–Sea Regimes" (2022). Contributions to Books. 434.
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections/434
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