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Protest, Property and the Commons

Performances of Law and Resistance

By Lucy Finchett-Maddock

To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge – 224 pages

Series: Social Justice

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Description

Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance examines the occupation of space as a mode of resistance. Drawing on the phenomena of social centres, as radical political communities that use the space of squatted, rented, or owned property, the book considers how such communities offer an alternative form of law to that of the state. It then goes on to address the relationship between this form of law recent protest phenomena, such as the Occupy movement. Contributing to an ongoing re-imagination of the law of property, Protest, Property and the Commons will be of interest to anyone concerned with the role of law in political protest.

Contents

Chapter 1: Social Centres; Chapter 2: Legal Plurality; Chapter 3: Social Centre Law; Chapter 4: Performance, Archive and Theatre of the Commons; Chapter 5: The Archive, Alternative Law and the Year of the Protestor; Chapter 6: Removal of the Other; Chapter 7: The Archive of Law; Chapter 8: The Futures of Legal Innovation, Protest, Property and the Commons

Author Bio

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is based at Exeter University.

Name: Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance (Hardback)Routledge 
Description: By Lucy Finchett-Maddock. Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance examines the occupation of space as a mode of resistance. Drawing on the phenomena of social centres, as radical political communities that use the space of squatted, rented, or owned...
Categories: Socio-Legal Studies, Law & Society, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Urban Sociology, Criminal Law & Practice, Property & Conveyancing Law, Urban Politics, Criminology and Law, Anarchism