Publications

My Articles In Peer Reviewed Academic Journals:

 

BENNETT, Luke (2020) Reconsidering law at the edge: how and why do place-managers balance thrill and compliance at outdoor attraction sites?,  Area, https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12667

 

BENNETT, Luke (2020). Introduction: The Bunker’s After-Life: Cultural Production in the Ruins of the Cold War. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13, 1-10.

 

BENNETT, Luke and KOKOSZKA, Phil (2020). Profaning GAMA: Exploring the Entanglement of Demilitarization, Heritage and Real Estate in the Ruins of Greenham Common’s Cruise Missile Complex. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13, 97-118.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2019) ‘Grubbing out the Führerbunker: Ruination, Demolition And Berlin’s Difficult Subterranean Heritage’, Geographia Polonica, 92(1), 71-82. [Free copy here]

 

BENNETT, Luke (2019) The Haunted Paddock: Exploring the Roots of an Ambiguous Space, People, Place and Policy, 12(3) 225-340. [free copy here]

 

BENNETT, Luke (2018) ‘Towards a Legal Psychogeography: pragmatism, affective-materialism and the spatio-legal’, Revue Géographique de l’Est, 58 (1-2) 1-16 [Free copy here]

 

BENNETT, Luke (2018) ‘Review of DeSilvey (2017) Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving’, Social & Cultural Geography.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2018) Cold War Ruralism: civil defence planning, country ways and the founding of the UK’s Royal Observer Corps’ fallout monitoring posts network, Journal of Planning History, 17(3): 205-225.

 

BENNETT, Luke & CRAWLEY JACKSON, Amanda (2017) Making Common Ground With Strangers at Furnace Park, Social & Cultural Geography, 18(1): 92-108.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2016) How Does Law Make Place? Localisation, translocalisation and thing-law at the World’s first factory, Geoforum, 74: 182-191.

 

BENNETT, Luke and LAYARD, Antonia (2015) Legal Geography: becoming spatial detectives, Geography Compass, 9 (7) : 406-422.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2013) Concrete Multivalence – practising representation in bunkerology, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31 (3), 502-521

 

BENNETT, Luke (2013). Who goes there? Accounting for gender in the urge to explore abandoned military bunkers. Gender, Place and Culture. 20 (3), 630-646

 

BENNETT, Luke (2011). Bunkerology – a case study in the theory and practice of urban exploration. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29 (3), 421-434.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2011). The Bunker: metaphor, materiality & management. Culture and Organization, 17 (2), 155-173.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2011). Judges, child trespassers and occupiers’ liability. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 3 (2), 126-145.

 

BENNETT, Luke. (2010). Trees and public liability – who really decides what is reasonably safe? Arboricultural Journal – The International Journal of Urban Forestry, 33, 141-164.

 

BENNETT, Luke and GIBBESON, Carolyn. (2010). Perceptions of occupiers’ liability risk by estate managers: a case study of memorial safety in English cemeteries. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 2 (1), 76-93.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2009). Why, what, and how? case study on law, risk, and decision making as necessary themes in built environment teaching. Journal of Legal Affairs & Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 1 (2), 105-113.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2008). Assets under attack: metal theft, the built environment and the dark side of the global recycling market. Environmental Law and Management, 20, 176-183.

 

Guest Editorial / Themed issue 

 

BENNETT, Luke (2020). Introduction: The Bunker’s After-Life: Cultural Production in the Ruins of the Cold War. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 13, 1-10.

 

BENNETT, Luke & LAYARD, Antonia (2015) ‘Law and Geography’ a special issue of the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 7 (1), guest editorial: “There are eight million stories in The Naked City”.

 

Monograph

  

BENNETT, Luke (2017) In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making. Rowman & Littlefield International: London.

 

BENNETT, Luke and HOCK, Katja (2013) Scree – an industrial hillside in words and images, Tract Publishing: Sheffield [copy available here]

 

BENNETT, Luke and CROWE, Lynn (2008). Landowners’ liability? is perception of the risk of liability for visitors accidents a barrier to countryside access? Project Report. Sheffield, Countryside Recreation Network.

 

BENNETT, Luke (ed.) (2002) Facing the Future; Listening to the Past – the proceedings of the 2002 UK Environmental Law Association conference. UKELA.

 

Book Chapters

 

BENNETT, Luke (2021). How to make 1500 holes in the ground: accounting for law alongside other place-shaping factors in the making of an exceptional Cold War network in Bartel, R & Carter, J. (eds) Handbook on Space, Place and Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2-13. [Copy available here].

 

BENNETT, Luke (2017). Approaching the bunker: Exploring the Cold War through its ruins. In: BENNETT, Luke, (ed.) In the ruins of the Cold War bunker: Affect, materiality and meaning-making. Place, Memory, Affect . London, Rowan & Littlefield International, 3-22.

BENNETT, Luke (2017). Entering the bunker with Paul Virilio: The Atlantic wall, pure war and trauma. In: BENNETT, Luke, (ed.) In the ruins of the Cold War bunker: Affect, materiality and meaning-making. Place, Memory, Affect . London, Rowan & Littlefield International, 23-38.

BENNETT, Luke (2017). Presencing the bunker: Past, present and future. In: BENNETT, Luke, (ed.) In the ruins of the Cold War bunker: Affect, materiality and meaning-making. Place, Memory, Affect . London, Rowan & Littlefield International, 233-250.

BENNETT, Luke (2017). Forcing the empties back to work? Ruinphobia and the bluntness of law and policy. In: HENNEBERRY, John, (ed.) Transience and permanence in urban development. Real estate issues . Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 17-30.

BENNETT, Luke (2016) Thinking like a brick: Posthumanism and building materials in TAYLOR, Carol A. and HUGHES, Christina (eds) Posthuman Research Practices in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 58-74.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2015) Incongruous steps toward a legal psychogeography in RICHARDSON, Tina (ed.) Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 59-72.

 

Published in Conference Proceedings

 

BENNETT, Luke (2021) ‘Ruin, real estate or heritage? Tracing the after lives of four UK continuity of government nuclear bunkers built in the late 1980s’ in Camerin, F & Gastaldi F (eds) ‘Rigenerare le aree militari dismesse Prospettive, dibattiti e riconversioni in Italia, Spagna e in contesti internazionali. Rimini, Italy: Maggioli Editore (conference proceedings) [Free copy here]

 

BENNETT, Luke (2011). A pub, a field and some signs – a case study on the pragmatics of proprietorship and legal cognition. In: COBRA 2011 – Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors International Research Conference, Manchester, UK, 12-13 September 2011. 

 

BENNETT, Luke (2011). Bunkerology – a case study in the meaning making practices of on-line urban exploration forums. In: Ethicomp 2011 – the social impact of social computing, Sheffield, 14-16 September 2011.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2010). Judges, child trespassers and occupiers’ liability in the built environment. In: COBRA 2010, Paris, France, 2-3 September 2010.

 

Dissertation / Thesis

 

BENNETT, Luke (2015). Interpretive Communities at Work and Play in the Built Environment. Doctoral Synopsis (for PhD by Publication), Sheffield Hallam University.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2010). Bunkerology – a case study in the meanings, motives and methods of urban exploration. Masters, Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Other 

 

BENNETT, Luke (2012 onwards) various short essays for anthropology blogsite: http://popanth.com

 

BENNETT, Luke (2012). Why do we only notice metal when it hurts? – Some sideways thoughts on metal theft. MetalTheft.Net.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2012) Interview: Mark Harrison (Heritage Crime Adviser, English Heritage). MetalTheft.net.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2012) Book review of ‘Public Safety and Risk Assessment – Improving Decision Making’ by David J. Ball and Laurence Ball-King (2011) Earthscan  European Journal of Risk Regulation.

 

BENNETT, Luke (2008). Metal theft – anatomy of a resource crime. Unpublished.