The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain

RT @FieldsDesiree: It was a pleasure to read and think on @bceagle71's The New Enclosure, especially in the context of efforts to reclaim h…

RT @FieldsDesiree: It was a pleasure to read and think on @bceagle71's The New Enclosure, especially in the context of efforts to reclaim h…

"The project of privatization necessitated a logic of public land as surplus. This logic assumes that public bodies, due to “the absence of profit-driven, market-based mechanisms of allocation and use”, cannot possibly make efficient use of land and proper

It was a pleasure to read and think on @bceagle71's The New Enclosure, especially in the context of efforts to reclaim housing from corporate landlords. Free e-prints of my review in Economic Geography here: https://t.co/7EvMZc6Pww