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Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property Amelia Thorpe

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Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property Amelia Thorpe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2023

Alexandra Flynn
Alexandra Flynn*
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Allard School of Law, Vancouver, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 299 - 303
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of University of Western Ontario (Faculty of Law)

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Amelia Thorpe, Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property (MIT Press, 2020) pp 344 [ISBN 9780262539784]. All in-text parenthetical references are to this book.

References

1. See Luis Eslava, Local Space, Global Life: The Everyday Operation of International Law and Development (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

2. Ibid at 12.

3. See Boaventura de Sousa Santos, “Law: A Map of Misreading. Toward a Postmodern Conception of Law” (1987) 14:3 JL & Soc’y 279.

4. See Patricia Ewick & Susan S Silbey, The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

5. See Robert M Cover, “The Supreme Court, 1982 Term” (1983) 97:1 Harv L Rev Foreword at 4.

6. See Hendrik Hartog, “Pigs and Positivism” (1985) Wis L Rev 925.

7. See Carol Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership (Westview Press, 1994).

8. See Davina Cooper, Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (Duke University Press, 2013).

9. See e.g. Ari Shapiro, “Street Signs Connect Modern Day Toronto To Indigenous History,” NPR (27 September 2016) at 16h:34m:00s, online (podcast): https://www.npr.org/2016/09/27/495671329/street-signs-connect-modern-day-toronto-to-indigenous-history (in 2016, two Indigenous scholars and activists put up official-looking street signs on major streets in Anishnaabemowin to showcase Toronto’s Indigenous history); Doug Anderson & Alexandra Flynn, “Rethinking ‘Duty’: The City of Toronto, A Stretch of the Humber River and Indigenous-Municipal Relationships” (2020) 58:1 Alta L Rev 107 (includes a case study of a park area used by Indigenous Peoples to plant traditional foods and medicines, and to conduct ceremonies along Toronto’s Humber River).

10. Stephen Wexler, “Practicing Law for Poor People” (1970) 79:5 Yale LJ 1049 at 1050.

11. See AJ Van Der Walt, Property in the Margins (Hart, 2009).

12. See Randall Amster, Lost in Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (LFB Scholarly, 2008).

13. See Sarah Ferencz et al, “Are Tents a ‘Home’? Extending Section 8 Privacy Rights for the Precariously Housed” McGill LJ [forthcoming in 2022].