Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Spatial justice recognises that spatial meanings contribute to the production of legal meanings and therefore play a role in shaping how the law delivers (in)justice.This article explores how wildlife can and should be treated as a beneficiary of spatial justice, that is, recognised as a co-producer of the real and legal meaning of property, and therefore included in any discussions regarding the management or use of property.We can enact such a change by reflecting on how the law encounters wildlife and challenging the anthropocentric and spatial presuppositions that inform these encounters.I demonstrate how phenomenology can fulfil this critical role.Building on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of bodies and their own spatiality, this article develops a politics of spatial inhabitation that can articulate and recognise nonhumans as co-productive agents in the production, interpretation, and enforcement of property.1 For the remainder of this article I refer to wild animals, birds and plants as 'wildlife' and real property as 'property' .
Author: Håkon Evjemo
Language: English
Topic: Animal Law and Welfare
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4406327026