Life in/out of the Law: Exploring the Intersection of Health Geography and Legal Geography

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Life in/out of the Law: Exploring the Intersection of Health Geography and Legal Geography

It is difficult to think about the flourishing of life outside of or apart from the affordances and limits of law. This argument finds validity in the sub-field of health geography, which has worked to show the centrality of place in the experience of health and wellbeing by pinpointing how human activities in relation to landscapes, sites and spaces support or undermine the flourishing of life. In doing so, health geographers have, occasionally, addressed the role of legislation, jurisprudence, policing, and property in their analyses. These features of law have received much more thorough treatment in legal geography, a sub-field that has developed sophisticated understandings of the mutual constitution of law, space and place. However, conversations between health geography and legal geography have been sporadic. This session will provide a space to explore the theoretical and methodological differences and potential linkages at the intersection between these fields. We invite authors to submit abstracts for paper presentations of scholarly research located at this intersection of health geography and legal geography.

Please send abstract proposals to: joshua.evans@ualberta.ca and jeff.masuda@queensu.ca