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The People's Property? is the first book-length scholarly
examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and
peopling of public space are central to the development of
publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks
the questions: Why does it matter who owns public property? Who
controls it? Who is in it? Donald Mitchell and Lynn A. Staeheli
answer the questions by focusing on the interplay between property
(in its geographical sense, as a parcel of owned space) and people.
Property rights are often defined as the "right to exclude." It is
important, therefore, to understand who (what individual and
corporate entities, governed by what kinds of regulations and
restrictions) owns publicly accessible property. It is likewise
important to understand the changing bases for excluding some
people and classes of people from otherwise publicly accessible
property. That is to say, it is important to understand how modes
of access and possibilities for association in publicly accessible
space vary for different individuals and different classes of
people, if we are to understand the role public spaces play in
shaping democratic possibilities. In what ways are urban public
spaces "the people's property" - and in what ways are they not?
What does this mean for citizenship and the constitution of an
inclusive, democratic polity? The book develops its argument
through five case studies: protest in Washington DC; struggles over
the Plaza of Santa Fe, NM; homelessness and property redevelopment
in San Diego, CA; the enclosure of public space in a mall in
Syracuse, NY; and community gardens in New York City. Though
empirically focused on the US, the book is of broader interests as
publics in all liberal democracies are under-going rapid
reconsideration and transformation.
The People's Property? is the first book-length scholarly
examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and
peopling of public space are central to the development of
publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks
the questions: Why does it matter who owns public property? Who
controls it? Who is in it? Donald Mitchell and Lynn A. Staeheli
answer the questions by focusing on the interplay between property
(in its geographical sense, as a parcel of owned space) and people.
Property rights are often defined as the "right to exclude." It is
important, therefore, to understand who (what individual and
corporate entities, governed by what kinds of regulations and
restrictions) owns publicly accessible property. It is likewise
important to understand the changing bases for excluding some
people and classes of people from otherwise publicly accessible
property. That is to say, it is important to understand how modes
of access and possibilities for association in publicly accessible
space vary for different individuals and different classes of
people, if we are to understand the role public spaces play in
shaping democratic possibilities. In what ways are urban public
spaces "the people's property" - and in what ways are they not?
What does this mean for citizenship and the constitution of an
inclusive, democratic polity? The book develops its argument
through five case studies: protest in Washington DC; struggles over
the Plaza of Santa Fe, NM; homelessness and property redevelopment
in San Diego, CA; the enclosure of public space in a mall in
Syracuse, NY; and community gardens in New York City. Though
empirically focused on the US, the book is of broader interests as
publics in all liberal democracies are under-going rapid
reconsideration and transformation.
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in
which gender influences political processes and the politics of
space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and
conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than
applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics
including nationalism, migration, development, international
relations, elections, social movements, governance and the
environment in the Global North and South.
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in
which gender influences political processes and the politics of
space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and
conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than
applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics
including nationalism, migration, development, international
relations, elections, social movements, governance and the
environment in the Global North and South.
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