ABSTRACT
This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property. Sarah Keenan demonstrates that new political possibilities for property may be unveiled by thinking about property in terms of space and belonging, rather than exclusion. The journey this book takes thinking first about legal geographies, then about space and thereafter about property as a spatially contingent relation of belonging began in an attempt to untangle sense of unease about the way Prossy Kakooza's campaign was framed. A key claim underlying this book is that by embracing the spatial turn and shifting the focus of analysis away from the legal subject and on to the broader spaces in which that subject is embedded, factors that are otherwise overlooked come into view. The book argues that by analysing property spatially instead of focusing on the subject of property subject-object and part-whole belonging overlap to the extent that they become indistinguishable.
