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Part of the INC seminar series "Grounding: Law and Philosophy"
This paper 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 paper shifts the focus away from the propertied subject and onto the broader spaces in which the propertied subject is located. Those spaces, it is argued, consist of networks of relations that revolve around belonging: not just belonging between subject and object, as property is traditionally understood, but also the less explored relation of belonging between the part and the whole. Property occurs when space 'holds up' relations of belonging. It is thus important to understand property as a temporally and spatially contingent relation. Thinking about property in terms of space and belonging reveals new political possibilities for property. The theory of property as a spatially contingent relation of belonging proposed offers a conceptually useful way of analysing a wide range of socio-legal issues, and enables new connections to be drawn between them.
Dr Sarah Keenan is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS, London.
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11 Feb 2014 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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