With the rise of the
individualized "gig" economy, the increasing reliance on financial
actors in economic and urban development projects, the privatization of pension
arrangements and the attacks on unions, and the scandals of inequality and
housing crises in many places around the world, it is hard not to recognize
that the role of property in globalized forms of capitalism has been shifting
over the past decades. These transforms manifest themselves legally in the
forms of property, the identities of property holders— and relatedly, the
patterns of social life—that are seen as legitimate and as worthy of
protection and perpetuation. Newly empowered agents, governance mechanisms, and
discourses provide the conceptual and material architecture that support these
transformations. This panel attempts to contextualize those shifts by engaging
with local instantiations of transnational patterns of property concentration
and exclusion, and their justifications.
Business meeting will be held on Friday, January 4, 2019 from 7 - 8:30 am.