LinCEJ Online Research Seminar: Prof. Nick Blomley – Spatial justice, housing precarity, and the space of property
As part of its 2022-23 seminar series, the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice (LinCEJ) invites you to participate in this online research seminar on Tuesday 14 February 4-5pm. The seminar will take place on MS Teams. Please see the event page for registration and obtaining the link.
Theme: Urban Environments
Date: 14th February at 4pm – On Teams.
Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Blomley
Spatial justice, housing precairty, and the space of property.
Drawing from current Canadian research on the challenges that precariously housed people face in securing their personal possessions, given ongoing regulation and control by private and public actors, this paper explores the utility of a ’spatial justice’ lens, with a particular attention to the ways in which property relations generate interlocking relations of privilege and vulnerability, while also creating dynamic spaces of control and subordination.
Biography
Nicholas Blomley is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University. He have a long standing interest in legal geography, particularly in relation to property. He is interested in the spatiality of legal practices and relationships, and the worldmaking consequences of such legal geographies.
Story submitted by Sandra Varga
svarga@lincoln.ac.uk