Overview

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated. Piracy is understood as acts and practices that emerge in zones where the construction and definition of property is ambiguous. Media piracy is a frequently used example where file-sharers and copyright holders argue whether culture and information is a common resource to be freely shared or property to be protected. This book highlights that this is not a dilemma unique to immaterial resources: concepts such as property, ownership and the rights of use are just as diffuse when it comes to spatial resources such as land, water, air or urban space. By structuring the book around this heterogeneous understanding of piracy as an analytical perspective, the editors and contributors advance a trans-disciplinary and multi-theoretical approach to place and property. In doing so, the book moves from theoretical discussions on commons and property to empirical cases concerning access to and appropriation of land, natural and cultural resources. The chapters cover areas such as maritime piracy, the philosophical and legal foundations of property rights, mining and land rights, biopiracy and traditional knowledge, indigenous rights, colonization of space, military expansionism and the enclosure of urban space. This book is essential reading for a variety of disciplines including indigenous studies, cultural studies, geography, political economy, law, environmental studies and all readers concerned with piracy and the ambiguity of property.

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Author:   Martin Fredriksson (Linköping University, Sweden) ,  James Arvanitakis (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780367735654

ISBN 10:   0367735652
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Property, place and piracy Martin Fredriksson & James Arvanitakis On Decolonising our Thinking and Cultural Exchange Ingrid Matthews Commons, Piracy and Property: Crisis, Conflict and resistance James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson Property, Sovereignty, Piracy and the Commons: Early Modern Enclosure and the Foundation of the State Sean Johnson Andrews Unreal Property: Anarchism, Anthropology and Alchemy Jonathan Paul Marshall & Francesca da Rimini Piratical Constructions of Humanity: Innocence, Property, and the Human-Nature Divide Sonja Schillings Mobility in Early Modern Anglo-American Accounts of Piracy Alexandra Ganser Compensation in the Absence of Punishment: Rethinking Somali Piracy as a Form of Maritime Xeer Brittany Gilmer Commodification of Country: An Australian Case study in Community Resistance to mining Ingrid Matthews Privateering on the Cosmic Frontier? Mining Celestial Bodies and the ‘NewSpace’ Quest for Private Property in Outer Space Matthew Johnson ‘The Ancestry Land’: China’s Pursuit of Dominance in the South China Sea Jingdong Yuan Nuclear Testing and the ‘Terra Nullius Doctrine’: From Life Sciences to Life Writing Mita Banerjee From Biopiracy to Bioprospecting: Negotiating the Limits of Propertization Martin Fredriksson Gated Housing Hierarchy Franklin Obeng-Odoom Pirate Places in Bangkok: IPRs, vendors and Urban Order Duncan McDuie-Re & Daniel F. Robinson The Real Gruen Transfer - Enclosing the Right to the City James Arvanitakis & Spike Boydell Epilogue James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson

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Martin Fredriksson Almqvist is Assistant Professor at the Department for Culture Studies, Linköping University, Sweden James Arvanitakis is Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia

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