The Legal Geographies of Contracts: A Method on Formation, Substance and Enforcement

IF 3.1 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Christopher Morris
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The legal technology of the contract has infiltrated modern society throughout public and private realms of law: from imaginaries and practices of citizenship, to commercial and governmental practicality. Contracts, in one form or another, underpin societal interactions across time and space as they are embedded within, and construct, networks of connections that not only regulate behaviours through immediate rights and obligations, but also reflect and produce broader social, political and economic regimes of power. Contracts also make, and unmake, places through regulation of access or exclusion, control and use in accordance with private agreements. Yet express scrutiny of contracts in geographical inquiry is scarce: geographers lack an established, contract-focused methodology. This paper proposes a blueprint for an analytical research method that focuses on three elements of contractual relationships: formation, substance and enforcement. It will argue that concentrating analysis on these aspects of contractual relationships can generate understanding of how contracts reflect and shape power dynamics across society. This analytical framework aims to encourage and facilitate collaboration between scholars and practitioners to develop knowledge that can expose and address spatial injustice.

合同的法律地理学:合同的订立、实质和执行方法
合同的法律技术已经渗透到现代社会的整个公共和私人法律领域:从公民权的想象和实践,到商业和政府的实用性。合同以这样或那样的形式支撑着跨越时空的社会互动,因为它们嵌入并构建了联系网络,不仅通过直接的权利和义务规范行为,还反映并产生了更广泛的社会、政治和经济权力制度。契约还根据私人协议,通过对进入或排除、控制和使用的规定,创造和改变地方。然而,在地理研究中对契约的明文审查却很少:地理学家缺乏成熟的、以契约为中心的方法论。本文提出了一个分析研究方法的蓝图,重点关注契约关系的三个要素:形成、实质和执行。本文认为,对契约关系的这些方面进行集中分析,可以让人们了解契约是如何反映和塑造整个社会的权力动态的。这一分析框架旨在鼓励和促进学者与实践者之间的合作,以开发能够揭露和解决空间不公正问题的知识。
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Geography Compass
Geography Compass GEOGRAPHY-
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6.00
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6.50%
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61
期刊介绍: Unique in its range, Geography Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Geography Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Geography Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.
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