War/Law/Space Notes toward a legal geography of war

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476844
AutoresCraig A Jones (University of British Columbia), Craig Jones (0000-0002-3603-3467, University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia), Michael D Smith (0000-0001-9709-4485, University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen33
Número4
Páginas581-591
Fecha de publicación2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775815600599
OpenAlexW2228146457
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas29

To some degree war has always entailed its rhetorics of justification and regimes of authorization. Today, however, war and law have become inseparable; now more than ever, war requires a legal armature to secure its legitimacy and organize its conduct. Our introduction (and the special issue more broadly) investigates this lethal conjunction of law and war across space and time. To capture the interplay of war, law and space-time, we conceive them as forming a kind of nexus or set of entanglements. Adapting legal geographer Nick Blomley's (1989) concept of the "law-space nexus", we call this the war/law/space nexus. Our discussion highlights some of its main features and introduces the subsequent papers that make up this special issue

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