2003/03/01 by Nicholas Blomley · 16 citations
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Law in Society and Culture #Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
paper · doi:10.1111/1467-8306.93109
Physical violence, whether realized or implied, is important to the legitimation, foundation, and operation of a Western property regime. Certain spatializations—notably those of the frontier, the survey, and the grid—play a practical and ideological role at all these moments. Both property and space, I argue, are reproduced through various enactments. While those enactments can be symbolic, they must also be acknowledged as practical, material, and corporeal.