Stokes, Elen ![]() |
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Abstract
The concept of the future has been studied in many different disciplines but has not received the same detailed attention in legal scholarship. This is especially curious in a field like planning law, which has a strong and obvious future-orientation. My aim here is to make a case for treating planning law more seriously as an important site of future-making, and to encourage more systematic thinking about the role of law in determining how the future is engaged in the present. One way of achieving this is by introducing a ‘futurescapes’ perspective to legal analysis, to capture the different temporal features of law that shape how the future comes to be understood, legitimated and acted upon. Forging those links helps to address the future not as a backdrop to law but as a key means through which law operates. The discussion illustrates the kinds of questions that might usefully be asked about how law never simply represents the future but actively produces the futures it then seeks to govern.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Law |
Publisher: | UCL Press |
ISBN: | 9781800082908 |
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Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 September 2022 |
Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2024 13:27 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152430 |
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