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Call for Papers
"Property in Many Registers"
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Washington DC, 14-18 April 2010
Co-organized by Shiri Pasternak and Heather Dorries (University of Toronto)
Possibility of Multiple Session, Paper and Panel
In the field of geography, the problem of property crops up in a
multiplicity of ways: to political ecologists, property is primarily a
question of land tenure and resource access; to insurgent indigenous
scholars, property is a colonial relation, a question of underlying
title and competing sovereignty claims; to Marxists, property is about
class, labour, and commodification; urban planners are confronted with
issues of property through real estate, gentrification, homelessness,
and public space; economic geographers are perhaps preoccupied today
with subprime mortgages or the abstraction and homogeneity of
speculative and virtual components of real property; intellectual
property concerns food security activists and scholars of both
biodiversity and information ownership; and to migrant justice
struggles, property is about borders and territoriality.
We welcome papers that seek to address some of the complexity of
property relations by thinking of property in terms of overlapping
registers. For example, is it possible or appropriate to conflate
colonial apparatuses of territorial dispossession with capitalist
processes of accumulation by dispossession? Or while the austerity
measures of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) and privatization
schemes worldwide may result in a range of common "enclosures", how do
we approach the uneven impacts of these programs on people living
around the world, without oversimplifying struggles on the one hand,
or ignoring opportunities for solidarity on the other? However,
reading these over-lapping registers of property as crisscrossing
forces in a field of power can help us to understand how property
rights regimes structure ontological conflicts as well as
institutional, legal, political, and social relations of ownership and
property entitlement in our communities.
In this session, we are not trying to get at the truth about property,
but rather to understand the ways in which as an ordering social
institution, property signifies and structures social relations. We
want to get at the nature of these social relations of property, the
thick compounds of historical and political meaning accrued in its
formations, and the question of what makes property technically
effective in its legal and social exclusions and in the militarized
enforcement of its borders.
Please send 250 word abstracts to [log in to unmask] by October 22.
Info on submitting to AAG:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm
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