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Legal terrain : the political materiality of territory
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Elden, Stuart (2017) Legal terrain : the political materiality of territory. London Review of International Law, 5 (2). pp. 199-224. doi:10.1093/lril/lrx008 ISSN 2050-6325.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrx008
Abstract
This lecture sketches the contours of a political-legal theory of terrain. It argues that terrain is a useful concept through which to think the materiality of territory. Terrain combines geophysical issues alongside strategic ones, and helps in attempts to develop a broader understanding of territory. Terrain makes possible, or constrains, various political, military and strategic projects; dynamic geophysical features of the earth complicate political-legal understandings. Terrain is where the geopolitical and the geophysical meet, and the lecture suggests that it is a helpful concept for making political-legal understandings of territory better account for the complexities of the geophysical.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Territory, National , Geopolitics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | London Review of International Law | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2050-6325 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 5 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 199-224 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/lril/lrx008 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 October 2019 |
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