Contested Property Claims. What Disagreement Tells Us about Ownership

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Preface Foreword: how property matters Introduction: disagreement as a window onto property Part I Squatting and eviction 1 The right to the city and its limits: contested property claims, urban exceptionality, and the fight for relational space in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games 2014 2 Possession through dispossession: in quest of property and social mobility in urban Brazil 3 The politics of legal technicalities: an inquiry into the demolition of a Roma EU-migrant settlement in Malmö, Sweden 4 Urban emptiness, ghost owners and squatters’ challenges to private property Intermezzos 5 Landed (Freeman’s Wood): an exploration of landownership through contemporary art 6 In the time of Trump: housing, whiteness, and abolition Part II Land rights and conflicting laws 7 The work of ownership: shaping contestation in Ontario’s aggregate extraction disputes 8 Climate adaptation on the Australian east coast 9 Property as a technique of jurisdiction: traplines and tenure 10 Decolonizing neoliberalism? First Nations reserves, private property rights, and the legislation of Indigenous dispossession in Canada 11 Contesting claims to gardens and land: gendered practice in post-war northern Uganda Afterword: prophecies on property’s probability: climate change and smart contracts in the Anthropocene Index