This seminar will take place on
June 8, 2026
CIST
Campus Condorcet
Research Building North
Room 0.010 (ground floor)
The seminar brings together five presentations that discuss legal spatiality in a diversity of contests from the North and the South. These contexts have in common fast-paced spatial and urban transitions, driven by land reclamation, real estates, and the construction of infrastructure. They introduce a diversity of research questions and themes that concern the governance of water (lakes, the sea) and reclaimed land, institutionalised informality, legal disputes, and the production of energy infrastructure. Across this diversity of cases and contexts, the seminar has a twofold ambition: Contribute to the debate on research methods on legal geography and to the circulation of theories and concepts between Northern and Southern contexts.
Registration is free but mandatory : https://cist.cnrs.fr/events/the-legal-spatiality-of-land-water-and-infrastructure/
10h00 – Adèle Esposito & Mathieu Gigot – Methodological Bricolage in Legal Geography
10h15 – Pierpaolo De Giosa – Coastal Transformation and Indigenous Rights to the Sea: The Case of the Orang Selatar in Johor, Malaysia
11h00 – Anand Akshay – Who Governs the Lake? The Governance and Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Peri-Urban Lake Ecosystems
12h00 – Emmanuelle Santoire – Pourquoi s’intéresser finement aux mécanismes juridiques quand on travaille sur la gouvernance territoriale en géographie ? Quelques exemples à partir du nexus énergie-territoire
14h30 – Francesco Chiodelli – The Legal Production of Informal Space
15h15 Adèle Esposito – It is Always about the Law: ‟Legal Fetishismˮ and Informality at the heart of the large development program
16h00 – Roundtable – Avenues for Further Research: Themes & Methods
