On dis/possessive collectivism: Comments on Ananya Roy's 2016 Geoforum Lecture. Issue 80 (March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ghertner, D. Asher
• Is Part Of: Geoforum. Issue 80(2017)
• Page Start: A12
• Page End: A14
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Subjects: Eviction -- Banishment -- Squatting -- Injury -- Racial capitalism; Geography -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Periodicals; Sciences de la terre -- Périodiques; Géographie -- Périodiques; Géographie humaine -- Périodiques; Aménagement du territoire -- Périodiques; Earth sciences; Geography; Human geography; Regional planning; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.004
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0016-7185

Abstract

Abstract: This paper critically examines the concepts of "dis/possessive collectivism, " "the politics of emplacement, " and "city's end" developed in Ananya Roy's 2016 Geoforum Lecture. It does so by reflecting on global anti-eviction struggles, as well as theories of performative politics and racial capitalism, in order to develop—in line with the ethic of learning Roy articulates in her paper—how poor people's movements develop living critiques of property and liberal standards of propriety.