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Sara Safransky explores how Detroit's recent classification of over one-third of the city's land as vacant or abandoned represents conflicting and complex understandings of property, foregrounding how the making ofand challenges tomodern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics.

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“By asking ‘What comes after property?’ Sara Safransky opens up a captivating and incisive mix of political economy and urban geography to think with and against dominant discourses on Detroit’s decline. The result is a refreshing take on the entanglements of property, race, and urban politics that adeptly weaves ethnographic and archival research with political theory and global struggles for freedom into a rich analysis that makes The City after Property essential reading for scholars of racial capitalism and urban change.” -- Kate Derickson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xv
1. Unbuilding a City 3
2. On Our Own Ground 23
3. Stealing Home 57
4. White Picket Fences 85
5. Accounting for Unpayable Debt 103
6. Conjuring Terra Nullius 123
7. Political Ecologies of Austerity 149
8. The Garden Is a Weapon in the War 169
Epilogue. Reconstructing the World 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 259
Index 291

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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 15 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9781478020028
      978-1478020028
      ISBN-10 1478020024
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Sara Safransky explores how Detroit's recent classification of over one-third of the city's land as vacant or abandoned represents conflicting and complex understandings of property, foregrounding how the making ofand challenges tomodern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics.

      Trade Review

      “By asking ‘What comes after property?’ Sara Safransky opens up a captivating and incisive mix of political economy and urban geography to think with and against dominant discourses on Detroit’s decline. The result is a refreshing take on the entanglements of property, race, and urban politics that adeptly weaves ethnographic and archival research with political theory and global struggles for freedom into a rich analysis that makes The City after Property essential reading for scholars of racial capitalism and urban change.” -- Kate Derickson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota

      Table of Contents

      Abbreviations ix
      Acknowledgments xi
      Prologue xv
      1. Unbuilding a City 3
      2. On Our Own Ground 23
      3. Stealing Home 57
      4. White Picket Fences 85
      5. Accounting for Unpayable Debt 103
      6. Conjuring Terra Nullius 123
      7. Political Ecologies of Austerity 149
      8. The Garden Is a Weapon in the War 169
      Epilogue. Reconstructing the World 197
      Notes 201
      Bibliography 259
      Index 291

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