LAWS 4304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Common Land, White Flight, Byward Market

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 4304
• Professor: George Rigakos

Document Summary

Lecture 9 policing, dispossession, & urban space. Cannot have public vs. private space/land without police. Police are what prevent us now from fighting over land. Private vs. public debate enshrines property ownership (private) Control = control of wealth; control of productive capacity. Social fabrication of order impossible w/o control of land: conquest, colonization, occupation, pacification. *every economic system has been based on dispossession: po(cid:449)e(cid:396)ful (cid:271)/(cid:272) (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e fo(cid:396)gotte(cid:374) a(cid:271)out it, blindly accept. Before public vs. private land (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)-la(cid:374)d(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)5(cid:1004)(cid:1004)s-1600s) Carving of land gives birth to capitalism. (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e"s taki(cid:374)g ownership(cid:863) of the a(cid:396)ea: whether it"s a(cid:374) afflue(cid:374)t o(cid:396) a poo(cid:396) a(cid:396)ea, u(cid:374)-owned spaces/things lead to disorder, minor incivilities e. g. boarded up houses; graffiti. Incidents in nyc b/c of broken windows: ghanaian immigrant diallo killed by police. Louima beaten almost to death: tail e(cid:374)d of giulia(cid:374)i"s (cid:373)ayo(cid:396)ship, he (cid:449)as (cid:448)e(cid:396)y u(cid:374)popula(cid:396) then, 9/11 happened, when 9/11 happened, image of giuliani taking charge. Lecture 9 policing, dispossession, & urban space: bias (aka.