Challenges in legal geography research methodologies in cross-cultural settings

In this introductory chapter, the editors draw attention to the uniqueness of Australian and Asian-Pacific legal geography scholarship, namely an attentiveness on human-environment relations, evidenced by the burgeoning of a distinct environmental legal geography scholarship. This edited collection explores legal geography perspectives through this frame with specific attention to three substantive themes, organised as sections of this book: investigating the legal geographies of Indigenous and local peoples and their environments; investigating the legal geographies of regulation; and investigating the legal geographies of extractive industries. Throughout each, specific attention is paid to how we, as legal geographers, engage with specific methods and with cornerstone methodological concerns in our research including positionality, reflexivity, and materiality. An outline of the book is also provided.