Racial Regimes of Property, Policing, and Banishment I
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: 310A, Level 3, Huntington Place
Type: Paper
Recorded:
Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Black Geographies Specialty Group, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group, Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ted Rutland Concordia University
Chair(s):
Ted Rutland, Concordia University
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Description:
In recent years, processes of geographical displacement, dispossession, and banishment have been re-examined through the lens of property as a “racial regime” (Bhandar 2018; Safransky 2023). This work builds on decades of critical scholarship on property in geography and beyond (Blomley 1998; Tully 1993; Hunt 2014) by examining how discourses of property are entwined with discourses about race in a variety of contexts. In the context of settler colonies, this work shows how “justifications for property ownership remain bound to a concept of the human that is thoroughly racial in its makeup” (Bhandar 2018: 4). It also shows how struggles over displacement, dispossession, and banishment are simultaneously “struggles over notions of race, property, and citizenship that undergird liberal democracies” (Safransky 2016: 3; also McElroy 2020). Within this literature, a few scholars have examined how policing is related to racial regimes of property (see Bonds 2018), but more work is needed to understand how property and policing are co-constituted in/as racial regimes.This session explores this broad theme through papers that explore, among other things, the role of Black artists in advancing alternative spatial imaginaries, historic and contemporary surveillance technologies, the links between urban planning and community policing, and the ways postcolonial state regulation and nonregulation structures abolitionist futures.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Jeff Masuda, University of Victoria |
The cordon carcéral? Reflections on an emerging dispossessive regime in public health |
Daniela Aiello, Pennsylvania State University - Dept of Earth and Mineral Sciences |
Eviction’s Spectacle: The role of surveillance, witnessing, publics, and notices in actualizing property’s violence |
Anne Bonds, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee |
New Geographies of Eviction in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Erin McElroy, University of Washington |
Rage Against the Landlord Tech Machine: The Domestic Data Grab in Technocapitalist Times |
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Racial Regimes of Property, Policing, and Banishment I
Description
Type: Paper
Date: 3/24/2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: 310A, Level 3, Huntington Place
Contact the Primary Organizer
Ted Rutland Concordia University
ted.rutland@concordia.ca
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