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Property tends to operate and to be understood as a conservative social force, but can property also be subversive? This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property, in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property that revolve around possession and to theorize property in terms of belonging. Drawing on feminist and critical race theory, the book shifts the focus away from the propertied subject and onto the broader spaces in which the propertied subject is located. Thinking about property in terms of space and belonging reveals new political possibilities for property. And the theory of property as a spatially contingent relation of belonging proposed in this book not only offers a conceptually useful way of analysing a wide range of socio-legal issues, it enables new connections to be drawn between them.
Table des matières
Chapter One ‘Prossy Has Been Saved!’ A Sense Of Unease, A Lack Of Connection, A Spatial Turn, Chapter Two Law/Space/Belonging? Legal Geography And Its Discontents, Chapter Three From Positionality To Spatiality: Theorising Legal Geography And Finding Life In Space, Chapter Four Subversive Property: Reshaping Malleable Spaces Of Belonging, Chapter Five Homelands: Property And Belonging In Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention, Chapter Six Your Lesbian Property Please: Refugee Law And The Production Of Homonormative Landscapes, Chapter Seven Taking Space With You: Inheritance, Appropriation And Belonging Across Time And Space, Bibliography, Index
A propos de l'auteur
Sarah Keenan is a Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. She researches in the areas of feminist legal theory, critical race theory and property
