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Property, Place and Piracy book cover

1st Edition

Property, Place and Piracy

Edited By Martin Fredriksson, James Arvanitakis Copyright 2018
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more





  1. Introduction: Property, place and piracy


    2. Martin Fredriksson & James Arvanitakis







  2. On Decolonising our Thinking and Cultural Exchange




    3. Ingrid Matthews







  3. Commons, Piracy and Property: Crisis, Conflict and resistance




    4. James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson







  4. Property, Sovereignty, Piracy and the Commons: Early Modern Enclosure and the Foundation of the State




    5. Sean Johnson Andrews







  5. Unreal Property: Anarchism, Anthropology and Alchemy




    6. Jonathan Paul Marshall & Francesca da Rimini







  6. Piratical Constructions of Humanity: Innocence, Property, and the Human-Nature Divide




    7. Sonja Schillings







  7. Mobility in Early Modern Anglo-American Accounts of Piracy




    8. Alexandra Ganser







  8. Compensation in the Absence of Punishment: Rethinking Somali Piracy as a Form of Maritime Xeer




    9. Brittany Gilmer







  9. Commodification of Country: An Australian Case study in Community Resistance to mining




    10. Ingrid Matthews







  10. Privateering on the Cosmic Frontier? Mining Celestial Bodies and the ‘NewSpace’ Quest for Private Property in Outer Space




    11. Matthew Johnson







  11. ‘The Ancestry Land’: China’s Pursuit of Dominance in the South China Sea




    12. Jingdong Yuan







  12. Nuclear Testing and the ‘Terra Nullius Doctrine’: From Life Sciences to Life Writing




    13. Mita Banerjee







  13. From Biopiracy to Bioprospecting: Negotiating the Limits of Propertization




    14. Martin Fredriksson







  14. Gated Housing Hierarchy




    15. Franklin Obeng-Odoom







  15. Pirate Places in Bangkok: IPRs, vendors and Urban Order




    16. Duncan McDuie-Re & Daniel F. Robinson







  16. The Real Gruen Transfer - Enclosing the Right to the City




    17. James Arvanitakis & Spike Boydell







  17. Epilogue




James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson



Biography

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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