Lorna Fox O'Mahony, Marc L Roark

Squatting and the State

Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108738033
• ISBN-10: 1108738036
• Artikelnr.: 63565258

Autorenporträt

Lorna Fox O'Mahony is Professor of Law at Essex Law School and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex. Her research explores a wide range of property issues using cross-disciplinary methods. She is author or editor of several books, including Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies (2006), which was awarded the Society of Legal Scholars' Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Squatters, Scale, and the State
Part I. Squatting and the State: 1. States, narratives, and norms
2. Squatting and the law
3. Property theory and the state
4. Scaling the state
Part II. Resilient Property in an Age of Crises: 5. Resilient property methodology
6. Possession, pragmatism, and homeless squatting
7. Ownership and absent owners
8. Aggregate interests - neighborhoods, markets, and social movements
Part III. Resilient Property in Action: 9. Scaling resilience and the state
10. Postscript: Resilient property and the pandemic
Bibliography
Index.