Normative geographies and the 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
In the first part of the paper, the A. presents popular understandings of and discourses about justice through two premises. The first one is that they depend on the geographical and historical frames – geographical imaginaries – through which we understand the world; the second is that understandings of justice (including both abstract ideas and geographical imaginaries) are deeply historical and social. He then demonstrates the historical and social geographical imaginaries to assessments of justice by examining the discourse surrounding the controversial 1940 Land Transfer Regulations in Palestine. A close look at the positions of each side reveals that their differences lay not in their abstract principles of justice but in the geographical imaginaries through which they viewed Palestine and the Palestinians.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965), issn : 0020-2754, 2014, vol. 39, n°. 3, p. 345-359, nombre de pages : 15, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Institute of British Geographers