Protest, Property and the Commons - Performances of Law and Resistance

Protest, Property and the Commons focuses on the alternative property narratives of 'social centres', or political squats, and how the spaces and their communities create their own - resistant - form of law. Drawing on critical legal theory, legal pluralism, legal geography, poststructuralism and new materialism, the book considers how protest movements both use state law and create new, more informal, legalities in order to forge a practice of resistance. Invaluable for anyone working within the area of informal property in land, commons, protest and adverse possession, this book offers a ground-breaking account of the integral role of time, space and performance in the instituting processes of law and resistance.

List of contents

1. Resistance to Law to Resistance 2. Social Centres 3. Property and the A-Legal Vacuum 4. Social Centre Law 5. Reclamation of Social Space and the Theatre of the Commons 6. Memory, Performance and the Archive 7. Time and Succession 8. The Memory of the Commons and the Memory of Enclosure Conclusion – Liminal Futures

About the author

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is Lecturer at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, UK. Her research looks at critical legal, legal geographical and entropic explorations of law, resistance, property, aesthetics, and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Finchett-Maddock Lucy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2016
• EAN: 9780415858953
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85895-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Social Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, LAW / General, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, LAW / Property, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Jurisprudence & general issues, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Urban communities, Anarchism, Jurisprudence and general issues, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Land & real estate law, Social law and Medical law, Land and real estate law / Real property law