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> ESRC Seminar Series: Utopian Property Programme
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> THE FIRST IN AN ESRC FUNDED SEMINAR SERIES ON UTOPIAN PRACTICES
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> 10 November 2007 University of Westminster (Regent Campus)
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> Room CG77,
> The Chiltern Building,
> Marylebone Campus
> University of Westminster
> London
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> Directions: The Marylebone campus is right by Baker Street tube on
> Marylebone Rd and opposite Madam Tussauds.
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> 9.00 Registration
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> 9.30-10.45 Panel One: Property and alternative communities
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> Sarah Blandy (Leeds) Property rights in prospect and practice [Read
> Abstract]
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> Lucy Sargisson (Nottingham) A short study of alternative property
> relations in intentional communities [Read Abstract]
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> 11.00-12.15 Panel Two: A different relationship to land/ nation
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> Irene Watson (Sydney) Aboriginal relationships to country: a
> utopian past which dreams and sings the future [Read Abstract]
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> Anne Bottomley (Kent) ‘Go up and seize the land’: Utopian land
> reform and the garden city movement. [Read Abstract]
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> 12.15-1.15 Lunch
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> 1.15-2.30 Panel Three: Governmentality and public property
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> Helen Carr (Kent) Cultivating allotments and the ideal citizen
> [Read Abstract]
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> Judith Smyth (Office for Public Management) Who owns public
> services and does it matter? [Read Abstract]
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> 2.45- 4.30 Panel Four: Grass-roots agency and activism
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> Sean Robertson (SFU) Natives making place: rhetoric, practice and
> the moral economy of intellectual properties [Read Abstract]
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> Peter North (Liverpool) Alternative Currencies as Utopian Practice
> [Read Abstract]
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> Paul Chatterton (Leeds) Building autonomy and self management in
> the city: the case of the UK social centres movement [Read Abstract]
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> 4.45-5.30 Closing round-table
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> Barbara Goodwin (University of East Anglia)
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> Nick Blomley (SFU)
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> Miranda Joseph (Arizona)
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> If you wish to attend the seminar please complete the Application
> Form or send an email to: [log in to unmask]
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Professor,
Department of Geography,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, CANADA
778-782-3713
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