Holder, J;
McGillivray, D;
(2020)
Recognising an Ecological Ethic of Care in the Law of Everyday Shared Spaces.
Social and Legal Studies
, 29
(3)
pp. 379-400.
10.1177/0964663919858703.
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Abstract
Law plays a vital role in the life and loss of open shared spaces, used and enjoyed on an everyday basis by local people. In this article, we adopt an analytical framework based on an ethic of care to critique the registration of land as a ‘town or village green’, using the example of an inquiry into the greens status of an ancient woodland. Analysing written and oral witness statements in this inquiry makes clear the centrality of such places in many people’s lives, giving rise to community-based, and forward-looking, interests. However, the legal focus upon quantitative assessments of individuals’ use of land in the recent past means that the prospective consequences of losing such valued areas are currently poorly acknowledged, and accounted for, in the registration process. This leads to the question whether an ethic of care towards everyday shared spaces may be better recognised via more deliberative plan-making regimes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Recognising an Ecological Ethic of Care in the Law of Everyday Shared Spaces |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0964663919858703 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663919858703 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Deliberative theories, ethic of care, everyday shared spaces, feminist theories, knowledge claims, local greens, witness statements |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10078139 |
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