Paradigms Of Propertied Citizenship
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Affairs Review
- Vol. 38 (4), 463-491
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087402250356
Abstract
The American paradigm of propertied citizenship has far-reaching consequences for the propertyless, as in the brutal criminalization of the homeless. Activist groups, such as the anarchist squatter organization Homes Not Jails, have sought to challenge this paradigm through innovative techniques of property takeovers, invocations of American traditions of homesteading, and Third World tactics of self-help and informality. This study trains a transnational lens on both the paradigm and its subversions. Posing Third World questions of the First World, the author seeks to unsettle the normalized hierarchy of development and underdevelopment and explores lessons that can be learned from different modes of shelter struggles.Keywords
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