Dis/possessive collectivism: Property and personhood at city’s end

Roy, Ananya

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.012

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“…Their response to the collapse of a neoliberal growth-oriented lifestyle, to the increase of unsustainable lifestyles, and to the breach of the promises of modernity for progress are pressing issues (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2012). Feelings of nostalgia for a lost era of social cohesion, the patriotic framing of their struggles and the unquestioning approval of the liberal, colonial and individualized conceits of property ownership (see also Roy, 2017) are some examples of the general controversial responses of the citizens of Global North to the current crisis. This blurring between the polemics against neoliberalism and austerity regimes and the difficulties involved in disputing well-established values and ways of being before the crisis is the crux of the idiotypic befuddlement discussed in the present research.…”

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The neoliberal myth of austerity: Debt and solidarity in the forefront of public space

Vavvos

Triliva

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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A multitude of crises have ravaged Greece during the past six years. The ensuing austerity policies, imposed as antidotes, appear to have impacted people's lives gravely. The collapse of a failing social and political system led to the establishment of social solidarity initiatives. One of these initiatives is the Somateio Allilovoithias Ofeileton Rethymnou (SAOR-Network for the Mutual Assistance of Rethymno's Debtors). SAOR offers comradeship by activating citizens to build collective strength and to resist foreclosures actively. In this paper, we present the results of a qualitative study focusing on the lives of the people who are members of the network and are involved in deterring foreclosures. Eleven interviews and a focus group discussion provided by coalition members were analyzed using phenomenologically informed thematic analysis. Three superordinate themes were identified: 1) Living on the precipice: Shocked, hoodwinked and debt-ridden; 2) Mutual anger against the 'betrayers' and the need for resistance; and 3) The national bankruptcy and unending deliberations regarding country's and the coalition's fate. These themes comprise a story entitled: The neoliberal myth of austerity: Indebted personhood in a bankrupt nation. Indebted citizens described the emotional collapse, the alienation, the feelings of solidarity they experienced and their anger toward politicians.

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The neoliberal myth of austerity: Debt and solidarity in the forefront of public space

Vavvos

Triliva

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…Residents would have to start all over when their belongings were confiscated and destroyed, as they were dispossessed of their personal identification, medication, money, laptops, radios, blankets, tents, and other valuables such as ashes. This exclusionary practice of ‘racial banishment’, as Pete White conveys (in Roy, ), displaces the livelihood of the homeless. Critiques of these policing practices link them to historical practices of banishment in the United States that residents and grassroots organizations reject, demanding: ‘No Jim Crow on Skid Row!’ (Helfand and Winton, ; Woods, ).…”

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Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA

Dozier

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Since the late 1990s, Downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row has undergone private and state‐sanctioned policing practices within the fifty‐block neighborhood. These policing practices are fueled by increased commercial and real‐estate development to dispossess and contain the mostly Black homeless and housed residents. Grassroots organizations and residents have responded to gentrification‐induced policing by claiming a homeless right to property, transforming neighborhood politics. This article examines these neighborhood politics as a process of contested development. Contested development reveals the push‐and‐pull contradictions that occur when spatial difference is challenged and reproduced. Through the sphere of urban property, the contested development of property in Skid Row restores or resists the generation of spatial difference. In so doing, the claims of homeless residents and grassroots organizations to a right to property engender transformative police reforms while at the same time igniting revanchist policing methods.

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“…In her look at Lebanon, she shows how an examination of the articulation of land use and property interface in municipal planning discussions around “conflicting public and private interests.” Planners reify the ownership model of urban development by reproducing what she terms “a propertied landscape” (Fawaz, , p. 1). Thus, scholars working on a range of empirical sites have demonstrated that land‐use planning uncritically accepts the ownership model of private property as its basis, starting from the assumption that all landscapes are in some way “propertied” in the form of geometrically gridded parcels (see also Maandi, ; Roy, , ). Practices of planning thus trigger “the mobilization of propertied interests,” further reinforcing power differentials and negating possible alternatives (Fawaz, , p. 15).…”

Section: Land Use I: Planning Property and The Power Geometries Of mentioning

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“…Indeed, scholars of the global south have also made important efforts in showing the ways in which liberal formulations of land use and property have touched down in the colonial context, and the devastating effects they (continue to) have on the everyday lives of urban inhabitants in the global south (Gidwani, ; Gidwani & Reddy, ; Ranganathan, ; Vasudevan, ). Roy and others see a politics of hope in poor people's movements/practices of dwelling, resistance, and struggle, arguing that the global north and global south should be kept simultaneously in view, and that doing so can assist in the dismantling and/or subversion of liberal ideas of land use, property, citizenship, and rights (Roy, , ; Roy & Crane, ). Drawing on examples of ongoing settler‐colonial processes in Israel and Australia, Blatman‐Thomas and Porter () assert that viewing property instead as land “offers a more hopeful space” (p. 14).…”

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Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

Wideman¹,

Lombardo

2019

Geography Compass

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In this article, we draw attention to the geographies of “land use,” which to date have been underexamined and undertheorized within urban geographical literature. To do so, we review insights from a growing set of literature in geography, urban planning, law, and socio‐legal studies, among others, to outline how urban space is shaped through the relationships between land use, planning, property, and law. We first look at the relationships between land‐use planning and power relations in place. We go on to focus on the law, and the ways in which it structures and controls land use, property, and social activities in the city. We conclude by reviewing how law and legal concepts can serve as instruments of resistance and a source of alternate futures in urban spaces. In sum, we argue that a deeper interrogation of land use, and its relationships to planning, property, and law, can lead to a better understanding of how liberal‐democratic cities operate, and offer tools for resisting opaque and legalistic land‐use planning programs.

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Dis/possessive collectivism: Property and personhood at city’s end

Cited by 271 publications

References 21 publications

The neoliberal myth of austerity: Debt and solidarity in the forefront of public space

The neoliberal myth of austerity: Debt and solidarity in the forefront of public space

Contested Development: Homeless Property, Police Reform, and Resistance in Skid Row, LA

Geographies of land use: Planning, property, and law

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