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Resisting devaluation

Foreclosure, eminent domain law, and the geographical political economy of risk

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4740705
AutoresBrett Christophers (0000-0002-6245-7378, Uppsala University, autor de correspondencia), Christopher Niedt (Hofstra University)
Año2016
Volumen48
Número3
Páginas485-503
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x15610579
OpenAlexW2341046888
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas19

This article examines recent plans for US municipalities to use the state legal power of eminent domain to forcibly acquire "underwater" mortgages (i.e. those with negative equity), and to refinance them on terms more favorable to the homeowners in question, as a way of addressing in a socially progressive way the nation's ongoing foreclosure crisis. The article makes three main arguments. The first is that insofar as the plan threatens to disrupt prevailing norms of value distribution and risk bearing, it represents a fundamental challenge to the existing political economy of urban financial capitalism in the US and the law's mediation thereof. The second is that value, risk, and their mediation through law must be understood in the context of geographical unevenness and shifting scales of legal governance. The third is that the geographical political economy associated with the eminent domain plan is about discourses-of risk, of markets, and indeed of law per se-no less than materialities; and that the two are indelibly linked, with discourses having material effects when, through law, they structure value and risk for the manifold actors who operate within the sphere of housing finance

Capitalism · Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Eminent Domain · Foreclosure · Mediation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Finance

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Obras citantes distintas16
Citas por año1,45
Intervalo de citas2015 - 2024 (10)
Velocidad de citaciónrecent
Altamente citadoNo
Tipos de citaNeutras: 16
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