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Accumulation by symbolic dispossession: Tourism development in advanced capitalism

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recommendations! Published in 2021 at "Annals of Tourism Research"

DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103072

Abstract: Abstract We examine the development of tourism in the Lofoten Islands in Norway to show how the operation of symbolic capital transforms the political economy of space. Whereas prior research has explored the role of… read more here.

Keywords: tourism; accumulation; symbolic capital; dispossession ... See more keywords

A Comparative Analysis of Widow Dispossession in Francophone and Anglophone Cameroon

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Journal of African Law"

DOI: 10.1017/s0021855318000013

Abstract: Abstract Widows throughout sub-Saharan Africa may be at risk from dispossession when their husbands pass away. Whereas some scholars view widow dispossession as prevalent and global, others suggest that the issue is less common than… read more here.

Keywords: widow dispossession; francophone anglophone; dispossession; cameroon ... See more keywords
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Who Loses and Who Wins in a Housing Crisis? Lessons From Spain and Greece for a Nuanced Understanding of Dispossession

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Housing Policy Debate"

DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2017.1324891

Abstract: Abstract The emerging postcrisis geographies in Southern Europe are intrinsically related to debt and dispossession. In Spain, mortgage homeownership and indebtedness led to housing dispossessions, while in Greece, skyrocketing private indebtedness is eventually arranged through… read more here.

Keywords: housing crisis; nuanced understanding; loses wins; housing ... See more keywords

Arguing with dispossession: a qualitative study of tourism and its discontents in the Gazipur District

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change"

DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2025.2553692

Abstract: ABSTRACT In scholarship, tourism has often been heralded as a catalyst for economic progress, yet there remains a notable gap in the literature – particularly in South Asia – regarding the tourism-led discontent experienced by… read more here.

Keywords: tourism; gazipur district; dispossession; tourism development ... See more keywords

Possessory stratigraphy: land title, dispossession and housing crisis

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "International Journal of Housing Policy"

DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2350143

Abstract: Abstract The myth that Indigenous sovereignty lives in the past is central to the lore of settler colonial societies. Sustaining that myth entails significant material and symbolic work, particularly organised around the recursive placement of… read more here.

Keywords: housing; land title; dispossession; stratigraphy ... See more keywords

Urbanisation and Indigenous dispossession: rethinking the spatio-legal imaginary in Chile vis-à-vis the Mapuche nation

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Settler Colonial Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/2201473x.2017.1409397

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article highlights the place of the spatio-legal imaginary in theorising urbanisation and Indigenous dispossession in Chile. Focusing on the Mapuche nation, we argue that we are witnessing another period of their historical struggles… read more here.

Keywords: chile; indigenous dispossession; urbanisation indigenous; spatio legal ... See more keywords
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Without Space: The Politics of Precarity and Dispossession in Postsocialist Bucharest

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Annals of the American Association of Geographers"

DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1368986

Abstract: The eviction of families from historically nationalized and recently restituted houses in Romania is tied in complicated ways to postsocialist transitional justice policies. Delayed enactment of restitution legislation and inconsistent application leave families, and neglected… read more here.

Keywords: politics precarity; precarity dispossession; without space; space politics ... See more keywords

Layered Resources and Layered Politics: Dispossession by Environmental Degradation at the Frontlines of Oil Extractivism

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Annals of the American Association of Geographers"

DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2522842

Abstract: Extractivism and associated environmental-social conflicts have attracted growing attention in recent years. Drawing from archival research, documentary analysis, and ethnographic field work, this article analyzes the decades-long struggle between the oil industry, state authorities, and… read more here.

Keywords: degradation; extractivism; layered resources; dispossession ... See more keywords

Inhabiting Dispossession in the Post‐Socialist City: Race, Class, and the Plan, in Bucharest, Romania

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recommendations! Published in 2022 at "Antipode"

DOI: 10.1111/anti.12821

Abstract: Abstract The paper explores the racialised geography of a series of socialist blocs located in the southern periphery of Bucharest, labelled as a contemporary Romanian “ghetto”. Through extensive ethnographic and archival work, it expands on… read more here.

Keywords: race; inhabiting dispossession; class; dispossession ... See more keywords

Making Space for the Maritorio: Raizal Dispossession and the Geopoetic Imagination in the San Andrés Archipelago

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Antipode"

DOI: 10.1111/anti.13084

Abstract: Drawing in part on the work of Édouard Glissant, this article explores how the Raizal population of the San Andrés Archipelago in the Caribbean mobilises the concept of maritorio as an archipelagic geopoetic vessel with… read more here.

Keywords: space maritorio; dispossession; san andr; making space ... See more keywords

“They Are Taking the Sea from us” - Maritime Extractivism, Dispossession and Resistance in Rural and Ethnic Communities of the Colombian Caribbean

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Latin American Perspectives"

DOI: 10.1177/0094582x241283771

Abstract: This article provides an overview of the impacts of the current Colombian extractivist development model on peasant, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous communities’ territorial seas (maritorium) in the Colombian Caribbean. We reflect on the implications of a… read more here.

Keywords: caribbean; taking sea; resistance; colombian caribbean ... See more keywords