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Welcome to Law Text Culture

Law Text Culture is a transcontinental, open access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal which aims to produce fresh insights and knowledges about law and jurisprudence across three interconnected axes:

  • Politics: engaging the relationship of force and resistance;
  • Aesthetics: eliciting the relationship of judgment and expression;
  • Ethics: exploring the relationship of self and other.

Law Text Culture publishes an annual thematic special issue, curated by guest editors selected by the editorial board. Each issue explores its theme across a range of genres, with scholarly essays and articles sitting alongside visual and literary engagements. In this way, Law Text Culture excites unique intersectional and interdisciplinary encounters with law in all its forms.

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  • Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

    Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene


Editors: Kathleen Birrell (Guest Editor), Martin Clark (Guest Editor), Julia Dehm (Guest Editor)

Articles


Front pages

Front pages

Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

Kathleen Birrell, Martin Clark and Julia Dehm

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 1–17

'Nature is of God': Land, Money, Empire and Extraction in James Harrington's Legal Thought, 1656-60

'Nature is of God': Land, Money, Empire and Extraction in James Harrington's Legal Thought, 1656-60

Martin Clark

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 18–39

Frontier Extractivism: Climate Change and Indigenous Dispossession

Frontier Extractivism: Climate Change and Indigenous Dispossession

Lee Godden

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 40–74

Vision of Extraction: Maps, Law and the Ocean

Vision of Extraction: Maps, Law and the Ocean

Kate Jama

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 75–99

The Power of 'Net Zero': Seductive Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier

The Power of 'Net Zero': Seductive Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier

Dayna Nadine Scott

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 100–138

The Case of the Impossible Mining License: Legal Rituals and 'Responsible Mining'

The Case of the Impossible Mining License: Legal Rituals and 'Responsible Mining'

Doris Buss

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 139–164

Agrarian Extractivism, Peasant Culture and Law from Below

Agrarian Extractivism, Peasant Culture and Law from Below

Theodora Valkanou

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 165–193

Mining Sovereignties in Courts: Voicing Plural Sovereignties in Juridical Spaces

Mining Sovereignties in Courts: Voicing Plural Sovereignties in Juridical Spaces

Sakshi

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 194–223

Beyond the Extractive Imaginary: Stories of Repair from Forest Rights Agitations in India

Beyond the Extractive Imaginary: Stories of Repair from Forest Rights Agitations in India

Arpitha Kodiveri and Danish Sheikh

2025-10-15 Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene • 224–247