Legal terrain—the political materiality of territory

Elden, Stuart

doi:10.1093/lril/lrx008

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This lecture sketches the contours of a political–legal theory of terrain. It argues that terrain is a useful concept to think the materiality of territory. Terrain is where the geopolitical and the geophysical meet, and it is therefore a helpful concept to make political–legal understandings of territory better account for the complexities of the geophysical.

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