The urban land question. Dis/possessive collectivism: property & personhood at city's end
| dc.contributor.author | Roy, Ananya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-23T11:42:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-23T11:42:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Well after the Great Recession has supposedly ended, foreclosures and bank-led evictions continue in American cities. In this paper, I examine the work of one poor people’s movement, the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, which resists evictions, occupies foreclosed homes, negotiates loan modifications with banks, and seeks to create new policy frameworks for housing rights. Organized around a simple but elegant motto, “Homeless People in Peopleless Homes,” the movement is an unusual combination of militant activism and a human rights framework. Inspired by housing struggles in different parts of the world, especially Brazil and South Africa, it serves as a node in a globally interconnected geography of urban protest. At the same time, the movement works with an explicit understanding of segregation, situating ongoing evictions not just as a symptom of neoliberalization but instead of long histories of racial banishment in the U.S. context. The study of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign raises issues that I believe are of pressing importance in planning theory as well as in struggles for spatial justice. I am interested in how poor people’s movements fighting displacement and dispossession assert a logic of ownership and possession over land. In other words, how do they simultaneously contest and consolidate the category of property? I call such claims to property the politics of emplacement, a politics of defending territory and home. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 768-770 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2499 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | The urban land question. Dis/possessive collectivism: property & personhood at city's end | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |