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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    14 July 2023
    31 August 2022
    ISBN:
    9781474487467
    9781474487443
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    Law, Jurisprudence
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    This book is a study of the critical history of space, and the ways in which a dominant property ideology has entrenched an exclusionary and profoundly alienating version of spatial ordering. It focuses on select periods in time, when the seemingly linear trajectory of enclosure momentarily wavers and alternate spatial paths briefly materialise, before 'disappearing' from plain sight. Using the forest as a thematic device, Cristy Clark and John Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships: between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square.

    The book draws on a range of case studies including the thirteenth century Forest Charter, Thomas More's 'Utopia', the Diggers' radical agrarianism, the Paris Commune's battle for the right to the city, and Australian forest protestors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. By analysing these movements and their contexts, Clark and Page illustrate the origin, history and legal status of the lawful forest and its modern-day companions. Although the dominant spatial paradigm is one where private rights prevail, this book shows that communal relationships with land have always been part of our law and culture.

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