Land, Property, Ownership at the Imperial Crossroads II

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This session calls for engagements that trace the entanglements of various imperial governance regimes through the lens of land and property across and beyond Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Much of the scholarship on land adheres to a liberal Eurocentric understanding of property as a carefully demarcated parcel of land with an attached bundle of rights bestowed to a single possessor. In this session, we transcend the familiar theorization of property and land by bringing into a dialogue (post)colonial, (post)imperial, (neo)imperial and inter-imperial interactions and contexts, recognizing that Eastern Europe and Eurasia is both a progenitor of imperial and colonial relations, as well as a subject of imperial power from inside and outside the region. To this end, these sessions investigate both contemporary and historical tensions produced when alternative practices of land ownership are confronted by multiple and often overlapping hegemonic forms of property-making.

Sub Unit

• Geography, Environmental Studies

Chair

• Sierra Nota, Naval Postgraduate School

Papers

• A Tale of Two Cities: 'Slumming' It in an Imagined Belgrade - Madeline Stull, Indiana U Bloomington

• Late Ottoman and Russian-Built Environments from the Perspective of Property - Ecem Saricayir, UC Santa Cruz

• On Slow Dispossession: Post-Transition Authoritarian Governmentality and the Racial Politics of Private Property in Budapest - Jonathan Dewes McCombs, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

• From 'Ownerless Property' to Municipalization: Dwelling Appropriation in Russia-Occupied Cities in Ukraine - Guénola Inizan, Lumière U Lyon 2 (France)

Discussant

• Christina Elizabeth Crawford, Emory U