Driving in Western societies is quotidian in nature; yet as the road becomes a focus of legal geography, so the vehicular environment offers a dynamic location for investigating the relationship between law and place. Roads are complex sites of movement and its prohibition, of freedom and regulation. They are a material locus of governance, in which rights of way are determined, communicated and enforced; but they also constitute a site of resistance or disruption, beyond regulation. Addressing phenomena such as the parking space, license plates, and traffic lights, but also speed, road rage...
Driving in Western societies is quotidian in nature; yet as the road becomes a focus of legal geography, so the vehicular environment offers a dynamic...