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- Title: Prolegomenon to a Pedestrian Cartography of Mixed Legal Jurisdictions: The Case of Israel/Palestine.
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 399 KB
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The relationship between cartography and law provides a unique focus through which to examine mixed legal jurisdictions. Through an exploration of the various uses of law, cartography, and nation building, the author postulates that mixed legal jurisdictions are created through the subtle incorporation of the originally unfamiliar "Other". In Canada, European settlers asserted sovereignty through the mapping and naming of territory in ways that did not accord with traditional Aboriginal patterns of usage or conceptualizations of space. The eventual creation of a legal middle ground between these peoples, as articulated by Richard White, is the basis of the author's analysis of Israel/Palestine. From the middle ground of mutual understanding, which is an alternative to the use of force, there is a potential for alternative cartographies and legal traditions to emerge. The centrality of the Holy Land in all three monotheistic religions has led to a proliferation of maps of that region, all of which communicate information that surpasses the mere physical description of the place. Both maps and laws are sources of authority that seek to orient an individual's intellectual perception of reality. Modern cartography recognizes that it is an ethnocentric projection to assume that there is a single conceptualization of space through which all others must be assessed. The author theorizes that certain silences in maps parallel silences in law, and that the contemporary focus on both is an attempt to promote social justice by attending to those who are ignored or marginalized by both of these disciplines.
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