2008
DOI: 10.1177/0964663908093966
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Enclosure, Common Right and the Property of the Poor

Abstract: Although considerable research has been conducted into the dynamics of commons in rural settings, we still know very little about common property within cities. Given the hegemony of certain models of property, the urban commons has been overlooked and ignored. Urban commons do not look like property to us. This can lead, I argue, to real injustice. Based, in part, on empirical research in Vancouver, I attempt to map out the urban commons of the poor, particularly in relation to the dynamics of innercity gentr… Show more

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“…As with Bayat's (1997, p. 58) account of similar practices in Iran, these processes of appropriation have been enacted "quietly, individually and gradually", rather than through organized social movements, and are justified as acts of necessity in a context where the state has failed to provide employment or housing. These everyday acts of encroachment have contributed to the creation of "urban commons"-spaces over which city dwellers have established a collective property claim through sustained patterns of collective use and appropriation (Blomley, 2008;Harvey, 2012;Hodkinson, 2012). These commons are extremely important because they provide Accra's informal proletariat with access to low-cost housing in the city centre and public space as a livelihood resource, enabling them to reproduce themselves despite their exclusion from formal wage labour and housing markets.…”
Section: Quiet Encroachment and The Creation Of Urban Commonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As with Bayat's (1997, p. 58) account of similar practices in Iran, these processes of appropriation have been enacted "quietly, individually and gradually", rather than through organized social movements, and are justified as acts of necessity in a context where the state has failed to provide employment or housing. These everyday acts of encroachment have contributed to the creation of "urban commons"-spaces over which city dwellers have established a collective property claim through sustained patterns of collective use and appropriation (Blomley, 2008;Harvey, 2012;Hodkinson, 2012). These commons are extremely important because they provide Accra's informal proletariat with access to low-cost housing in the city centre and public space as a livelihood resource, enabling them to reproduce themselves despite their exclusion from formal wage labour and housing markets.…”
Section: Quiet Encroachment and The Creation Of Urban Commonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pueden ser exclusivas o integradoras, regresivas o progresistas (Kohn, 2004;McCarthy, 2005); pueden referirse a un pequeño grupo de usuarios, a un vecindario entero o a grupos que operan en el espacio digital (Blomley, 2008;Foster, 2011); y pueden ser sedentarias o temporales. En cualquier caso, son organizaciones sociales que, lejos de la idea de comunidad homogénea y de corte esencialista, se fundamentan en el hacer común, es decir, en la propia acción de gestionar y democrática-mente gobernar recursos comunes.…”
Section: Comunidadunclassified
“…Recientemente ha aflorado una nueva línea de producción académica que, entroncada en la teoría urbana crítica, desarrolla una mirada renovada, que vincula las aportaciones de los teóricos marxistas de la acumulación primitiva con los trabajos sobre el neoliberalismo en las ciudades, estudios provenientes de la geografía crítica y la sociología urbana (véase Blomley, 2008;Hodkinson, 2012;Jeffrey, McFarlane & Vasudevan, 2012;Vasudevan, McFarlane & Jeffrey, 2008). Estos autores recuperan el concepto de "cercamiento" para referirse al proceso de "neoliberalización" de las ciudades, poniendo así en el centro no solo lo que se entiende coloquialmente por "privatización" -la transferencia de activos públicos al ámbito privado-, sino también una multiplicidad y diversidad de actos, que van desde la privatización/financiarización del espacio urbano y la mercantilización de la vida urbana, a la polución, la exclusión, el desplazamiento o el levantamiento literal de cercas y muros.…”
Section: La Economía Política De Los Comunesunclassified
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