The territory of property

Blomley, Nicholas

doi:10.1177/0309132515596380

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“…Taking its cue from recent developments in property research, this paper builds on the 3 insight that property and associated rights to include or exclude are not absolute, but 4 constantly subject to changing enactments and interpretations that can make property do 5 different kinds of work with both inclusive and exclusive effects (Blomley, 2004;2015). As Rather than accepting the inclusionary characteristics attributed to community gardens, or 8 judging the exclusionary practices of community gardeners as materialized in garden fences,…”

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“…This effect is described as the agency of property itself (Blomley, 2013). The tendency of property to make itself seem natural combined with its power to affect real 9 life creates a need for ethnographic research that uncovers how property is practised in 10 everyday life, how the effects of those practices are felt and how people make sense of its 11 results (Blomley, 2015;2016). …”

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Transplanting, plotting, fencing: relational property practices in community gardens

Holstein

2016

Environ Plan A

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Community gardening is an increasingly popular phenomenon. Local governments wishing to 'green' the city and make the urban environment more 'inclusive' sometimes promote community gardening as a means to meet policy goals. Scholars from various fields have been keen to focus on these positive promises of community gardening. However, community gardens are not inherently different from their surroundings or good in themselves as they are connected to wider urban landscapes and routines through practice. Building on empirical research that I conducted at three community gardens in Sydney, Australia, I reveal how property is practised in three gardens with different property models, focussing on three practices -transplanting, plotting and fencing. I show that community gardeners produce property relationally and that through each of these practices, they create overlapping understandings of common and private property. Gardeners have contradictory motivations that are geared both towards community inclusion and the protection of personal interests. The paper reveals that while feelings of ownership contribute to a sense of community belonging, they also help legitimatise a defensive and exclusive spatial claim. Community gardening is an increasingly popular phenomenon. Local governments wishing 6 to 'green' the city and make the urban environment more 'inclusive' sometimes promote 7 community gardening as a means to meet policy goals. Scholars from various fields have 8 been keen to focus on these positive promises of community gardening. However, 9 community gardens are not inherently different from their surroundings or good in 10 themselves as they are connected to wider urban landscapes and routines through practice. Disciplines Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences 11Building on empirical research that I conducted at three community gardens in Sydney, 12Australia, I reveal how property is practised in three gardens with different property models, 13focussing on three practices -transplanting, plotting and fencing. I show that community 14 gardeners produce property relationally and that through each of these practices they create 15 overlapping understandings of common and private property. Gardeners have contradictory 16 motivations that are geared both towards community inclusion and the protection of personal

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Transplanting, plotting, fencing: relational property practices in community gardens

Holstein

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…Moreover, legal scholars most frequently consider the IACtHR Indigenous land rights cases vis-à-vis their implications on communal property rights due to the law's emphasis on property as the privileged unit of governance over territory. 67 As shown in my case sketches above, the Yakye Axa, Sawhoyamaxa and Xákmok Kásek cases are struck through with different notions of land, territory and property. In the following sections, I show how each concept implicates different socio-spatial relations that ultimately impact aftereffects of adjudication.…”

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Adjudication and Its Aftereffects in Three Inter-American Court Cases Brought against Paraguay: Indigenous Land Rights

Correia¹

2018

Erasmus Law Review

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This paper examines three Inter-American Court (IACtHR) cases on behalf of the Enxet-Sur and Sanapana claims for communal territory in Paraguay. I argue that while the adjudication of the cases was successful, the aftereffects of adjudication have produced new legal geographies that threaten to undermine the advances made by adjudication. Structured in five parts, the paper begins with an overview of the opportunities and challenges to Indigenous rights in Paraguay followed by a detailed discussion of the adjudication of the Yakye Axa, Sawhoyamaxa, and Xákmok Kásek cases. Next, I draw from extensive ethnographic research investigating these cases in Paraguay to consider how implementation actually takes place and with what effects on the three claimant communities. The paper encourages a discussion between geographers and legal scholars, suggesting that adjudication only leads to greater social justice if it is coupled with effective and meaningful implementation.

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“…Marine scaping (Toonen and Tatenhove, 2013) is a framework for assessing informational processes related to integrated marine governance by staging and ordering marine activities in time and space while accounting for the interplay between seascape, humanscape and mindscape. Thus, co-design of area-based and polycentric governance solutions must not only consider notions of property, territory or metrics of extent, but also ecological effectiveness, biodiversity, representation, connectivity and ecosystem services targets should be achieved through equitable processes with equitable outcomes (Koehn et al, 2013;Larson et al, 2013;Blomley, 2015;Spalding et al, 2016).…”

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Healing Brazil's Blue Amazon: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Nurturing Cross-Scale Transformations at the Frontlines of Ocean Sustainability

Gerhardinger

Gorris

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Front. Mar. Sci.

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HIGHLIGHTS• The Anthropocene compels unlocking of ocean-related network capabilities.• Orchestration of local, regional, and global knowledge networks can augment transformative capacity.• Transdisciplinary network diagnostics are promising social learning tools.• Strategic advice for transformational research in ocean territories are provided. This paper dedicates to understanding of what is needed to achieve the transformation of ocean governance. Based on the theory of transformative agency conceptualized in a multi-level governance context, we build on recent novel inter-and transdisciplinary research in Brazil to explore the opportunities for transformation in the dynamic, complex, and multi-level field of ocean governance. We focus this analysis on three transformation processes toward developing a socially and ecologically coherent marine protected area network as the core of a marine spatial planning process for enhanced ecosystem-based polycentric governance of the country's Exclusive Economic Zone. The findings illuminate leverage points for achieving (much needed) transformation in Brazilian ocean governance and potentially beyond. These include: connecting transformative actions into coherent narratives and testing strategic advice derived from theories of transformative agency to promote regime shifts in ocean governance systems; setting of more ambitious social mobilization targets; fostering orchestration of knowledge-networks considering multiple issues, territorial and institutional levels; implementing institutional learning experiments; supporting transformational trajectories toward co-evolutionary, polycentric, ecosystem-and area-based ocean governance systems; and pursuing gradual, incremental structural understanding of Gerhardinger et al. Healing the Blue Amazon with Knowledge-Action Networks a given knowledge network field as a major driver of catalyzing transformative change. Hereby, this article advances understanding of how to better navigate the transformation toward enhanced sustainability in an important part of the Atlantic and hence of our global ocean.

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The territory of property

Cited by 146 publications

References 71 publications

Transplanting, plotting, fencing: relational property practices in community gardens

Transplanting, plotting, fencing: relational property practices in community gardens

Adjudication and Its Aftereffects in Three Inter-American Court Cases Brought against Paraguay: Indigenous Land Rights

Healing Brazil's Blue Amazon: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Nurturing Cross-Scale Transformations at the Frontlines of Ocean Sustainability

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