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Lines, barred lines. Movement, territory and the law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2010

Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Andrea Mubi Brighenti*
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Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
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Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to analyse the complex relationship between law, territory and movement. Beginning with a quick overview of the notion of property, the paper suggests that this legal notion represents a way of imagining the practice of inhabiting the planet. Dwelling and travelling are explored as two alternative and complementary ways of inhabiting, and a closer inspection is paid to the moments when they confront each other both ideologically and practically. A territorial question is identified at the core of law, namely the issue of the movement of bodies in space (or motility), together with the control of such movements. From this perspective, movement is not simply one among the many objects over which law exerts control, rather law itself is a territorial endeavour, a movement that acts upon other movements.

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 6 , Special Issue 3: Law, Movement, Space , September 2010 , pp. 217 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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