SOSC 3375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Precarity

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3375
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Lecture outline: liberal foundations of property, the ownership model, private property, entitlement and exclusion, colonization, property, and indigenous geographies. Nicholas blomley: space= performative- actively produced on an ongoing basis, spatialization= social production of space, property = violent, performative, exclusion gives you certain rights. Entitlement and exclusion: property and law are born together, before law was made there was no property, property relies on a state. Individual exclusivity: you can exclude certain people from coming onto your property. Individuals have the sole control of their property. If one person own property by definition another person can"t - ownership model tells us that. It is the organization of relations: exclusion= sine quo non of property, material condition, precarity, the right to exclude can actually be beneficial, ensures our access to housing, having a shower, etc , property ensures the status quo. Inherently comes with rights and as soon you allocate rights you make something difficult to change.