Taking up property: Comments on Ananya Roy

Blomley engages with Ananya Roy's 2003 paper on paradigms of propertied citizenship. The current paper builds from, and extends much of her earlier work, thinking property through a transnational and postcolonial lens, while also engaging in an autocritique of her earlier argument that properti...

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Published in:Geoforum 2017-03, Vol.80, p.A20-A21
Main Author: Blomley, Nicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Citizenship
Evictions
Paradigms
Postcolonialism
Property
Roy, Ananya
Transnationalism
Urban areas
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Summary:Blomley engages with Ananya Roy's 2003 paper on paradigms of propertied citizenship. The current paper builds from, and extends much of her earlier work, thinking property through a transnational and postcolonial lens, while also engaging in an autocritique of her earlier argument that propertied activism seems to more often than not replicate hegemonic spaces and forms, providing a critique bound by the constraints of the master narrative. There is much that is to be applauded in her paper. Most immediately, she alerts people to the urgent need to engage with contemporary waves of urban eviction.
ISSN:0016-7185
1872-9398
DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.013