ABSTRACT
Dominant conceptions of property imagine a sharp divide between insiders and outsiders. As a result, it is easy to assume that private property (as a castle) is simply a space of rightful exclusion. While the practical and ideological work of the hegemonic forms of propertied territoriality needs to be recognized, it is important to also note the ways in which property and territory are contested, reworked, and sometimes remade. This is the goal of chapter 6. Case law and property practice reveals that the territory of property can also be a space of inclusion and access. This, in part, is a result of those we might term ‘territory’s outlaws’, such as squatters, civil rights activists, sit-down strikers, Indigenous activists, and houseless people. Their precarious status, in many senses, is shaped by the exclusion generated by the territorialization of dominant property relations. Their struggles, moreover, centre both on property relations, and their territorialization.
