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Title: | Place-speaking: attending to the relational, material and governance messages of Silent Spring | Contributor(s): | Bartel, Robyn (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2018 | DOI: | 10.1111/geoj.12229 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22699 | Abstract: | The growing recognition of place agency, particularly in relational-material conceptualisations, presents a challenge and an opportunity for legal geographic scholarship. Place is often invisibilised and abstracted by formal rules and institutions, but place shapes (and is shaped by) the law, and coproduces informal lore, norms and cultural practices that interact with formal law and influence governance. Such place-work is particularly important for environmental law, for which place is or should be central, and is well overdue for scholarly interrogation. The focus of this paper is Silent Spring, often credited as having launched the modern environmental movement. The lens of legal geography is deployed to illustrate the significance of Rachel Carson's foregrounding of place and non-human agency, validation of lay knowledges and alternative approaches in both science and policy. Carson's work demonstrates remarkable prescience in heralding relational ontologies, the relevance of materiality, and the value of collaborative governance. There is a challenge here for environmental law to recognise and embrace the many voices of place at multiple scales, and the role of place in generating its own legal order- a legal pluralism hitherto largely ignored. An opportunity exists to appreciate place law more fully, and deploy this recognition to address the environmental, regulatory and institutional problems of our time, including those that define the Anthropocene. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Geographical Journal, 184(1), p. 64-74 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1475-4959 0016-7398 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Law 160403 Social and Cultural Geography |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 480204 Mining, energy and natural resources law 480202 Climate change law 440601 Cultural geography |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960799 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classified 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280117 Expanding knowledge in law and legal studies 190205 Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives) 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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