Non-Places and the Law: A Preliminary Investigation

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica

Michał Dudek¹ 

[1] Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Sociology of Law;

关键词: spatial turn;    legal geography;    marc augé;    non-places;    law;   

DOI  :  10.18778/0208-6069.94.02

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In the context of the significant literature on Marc Augé’s concept of non-places, including its various applications in different disciplines, and also constantly growing legal geographical analyses, it is striking that, to date, there have been no more focused discussion on non-places and the law. This paper aims to begin filling this noticeable gap. It focuses on an original presentation of Augé’s concept and distinguishes three levels of non-places: their objective, material level (e.g. the buildings of non-places); the intersubjective, social level (the specific, distinctive feel of non-places, such as anonymity and detachment); and the purely individual, subjective level (the way particular people assess a specific non-place). The paper not only argues that Augé is already sensitive to the law in his original account of non-places, but also that the law – while directly irrelevant for the subjective level – is nevertheless very important for the objective and intersubjective levels of non-places, as, ultimately, it is a co-constituting factor of these aspects of the discussed type of sites.

【 授权许可】

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