We could not imagine their homes could be our homes: towards a feminist legal geographic approach to home

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorZeffert, Henrietta
dc.contributor.authorClough, Beverley
dc.contributor.funderRoyal Irish Academy
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-18T10:00:02Z
dc.date.available2026-03-18T10:00:02Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we introduce a feminist legal geographic approach to home. This is a generative framework for articulating and theorising the relationship between law and home. Integrating feminist socio-legal theory and feminist geography, this perspective brings feminist legal and geographic theory to the mainstream law and home literature and illuminates the many ways law is entwined with home. Through three case studies, we underscore the analytical timeliness of feminist approaches to law and home by illustrating shifts in politics and ideology and demonstrate the ways in which feminist legal geography reveals common threads that link together seemingly disparate or disconnected cases. Crucially, our approach drives a shift in how responsibility and accountability for structural and systemic violence is identified and understood through the concept of home, and the role of resistance to violence in this.en
dc.description.sponsorshipRoyal Irish Academy Charlemont Grant
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.extent428543
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.authororcidZeffert, Henrietta§0000-0002-8494-4855
dc.identifier.authororcidClough, Beverley
dc.identifier.citationZeffert, H. and Clough, B. (2025) 'We could not imagine their homes could be our homes: towards a feminist legal geographic approach to home', Social and Legal Studies, 35(1), pp. 3-29.
dc.identifier.endpage29
dc.identifier.issn0964-6639
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleSocial and Legal Studies
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8494-4855/work/208940015
dc.identifier.startpage3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18636
dc.identifier.volume35
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFeminist legal geography
dc.subjectHome
dc.subjectLaw and space
dc.subjectResponsibility
dc.subject[Law]
dc.titleWe could not imagine their homes could be our homes: towards a feminist legal geographic approach to homeen
dc.typeArticle (Peer reviewed)
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
clough-zeffert-2025-we-could-not-imagine-their-home-could-be-our-home-towards-a-feminist-legal-geography-of-home.pdf
Size:
418.5 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published Version
Download
Collections
School of Law