Issue Date
2013-01-01Subjects
gift exchangeproperty rights
hegemony
access to water,
nature-society relations
Subject Categories::F810 Environmental Geography
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Through a theoretical and empirical consideration of gift exchange we argue in this paper that those with legal interests in land have constructed property relations around a claim of reciprocity with nature. This has been used to legitimate the ways in which they have deployed their property power to exclude others, thus seeking to retain their dominion over both humans and nonhumans. In so doing, however, people with such interests have failed to understand the dynamic of gift relationships, with their inherent inculcation of subject and other, to the point where the exercise of power becomes contingent on the continued hegemony of property relations. Using the politics of recreational access to inland waters in England and Wales, we show that power—over both humans and nonhumans—is temporary and conditional in ways that are not fully theorised in most contemporary debates about property rights and their deployment on nonhuman subjects.Citation
Ravenscroft N, Church A, Gilchrist P, Heys B (2013) 'Property ownership, resource use, and the ‘gift of nature’', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31 (3), pp.451-466.Publisher
SAGEDOI
10.1068/d8310Additional Links
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/d8310Type
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0263-7758EISSN
1472-3433ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1068/d8310
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