The Kings ain't playin' no one tonight
Desanctifying property as an abolitionist practice in Sacramento
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mia Karisa Dawson (0009-0001-5702-4367, University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 319-331 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758221081144 |
| OpenAlex | W4214567055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article considers the significance of disrespecting property as a long-standing practice of abolition. As an organizer, observer and participant, I consider a series of Black Lives Matter protests in Sacramento that transgress the dictates of property in the city. I apply Cedric Robinson's under-examined theory of the terms of order to understand these transgressions as fundamental threats to assemblages of capitalism, whiteness and policing. As the ruptures caused by protests and riots reveal, property is neither static nor infallible as an arrangement of space. Rather, it is relational and contingent on state force and self-disciplined social behavior. I argue that transgressing the physical markers of property reflects a more revolutionary practice of destabilizing the ideologies of social order upon which property depends. Such interruptions desanctify property by refusing its legitimacy as an arbiter of social life and movement in space. Desanctifying property practices the forms of collectivity, autonomy, and deviant kinship that abolition demands. In situating my methods in this work, I offer a framework of abolition geography as a way of study that participates in social movement, focuses on everyday practices of revolution, and refutes hegemonic ideas of social life and scale
Autonomy · Capitalism · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideology · Kinship · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Private property · Property (philosophy · Social movement · Social order · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |