{"product_id":"the-city-after-property-9781478020783","title":"The City after Property","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara 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 of—and challenges to—modern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe City after Property\u003c\/i\u003e essential reading for scholars of racial capitalism and urban change.” -- Kate Derickson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Prologue  xv\u003cbr\u003e 1. Unbuilding a City  3\u003cbr\u003e 2. On Our Own Ground  23\u003cbr\u003e 3. Stealing Home  57\u003cbr\u003e 4. White Picket Fences  85\u003cbr\u003e 5. Accounting for Unpayable Debt  103\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conjuring Terra Nullius  123\u003cbr\u003e 7. Political Ecologies of Austerity  149\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Garden Is a Weapon in the War  169\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Reconstructing the World  197\u003cbr\u003e Notes  201\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  259\u003cbr\u003e Index  291","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409015021911,"sku":"9781478020783","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020783.jpg?v=1730505097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-city-after-property-9781478020783","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}