Research methods for legal geography
This paper provides an overview of the research techniques that can be used for explorations in legal geography, highlighting the …
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Three theses on informal housing in Europe
This editorial introduction to the Special Issue ‘The rules, institutions and politics of housing informality in Europe’ argues for a …
Fare ricerca il geografia del diritto
La geografia del diritto ha una certa tendenza a sottovalutare le questioni metodologiche, nonostante essa sia caratterizzata da alcune significative …
Criminal accumulation by dispossession
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral …
A fine-grained understanding of informality
This article focuses on the role of subjective meanings in the production of informal housing. It argues that, although individual …
Reconceptualising housing emptiness beyond vacancy and abandonment
The academic reflection on different manifestations of building emptiness is broad, intersecting the last sixty years of various debates on …
Placing the law
Tthe paper aims to contribute to the theoretical investigation of the nexus between law and space in the field of …
Urbicide, neo-colonial subjugation and the Gaza Strip
The article mobilizes the concept of urbicide to read the May 2021 Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. It argues …
Housing precarity
This paper puts forward the relevance of the concept of precarity in the investigation of the housing conditions of migrants. …
Moving beyond informality-of-need and informality-of-desire
This is a comment on the following paper: Devlin, R. T. (2018). Asking ‘Third World questions’ of First World informality: …