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Speculating on vacancy
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 , DOI: 10.1111/tran.12477
Elsa Noterman 1
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Property speculation has long served a role in the settler colonial appropriation of land and the racialised uneven development of contemporary cities. This future-oriented approach to property acquisition and management is underpinned by notions of vacancy that erase past and present forms of possession and associate racialised spaces with lack and risk. Efforts to define, represent, and manage the speculative value of “vacant” properties through predictive mapping work to colonise the future in ways that erase the present and past. In this paper, I reflect on the role of speculative cartographies of property in both reifying and undermining normative urban property regimes. Specifically, I examine the city of Philadelphia’s use of cartographic tools to identify “likely” property vacancy and how they relate to ongoing racialised dispossession. I then turn to consider the potential of speculative (counter) cartographies of property to contribute to new political realities, not just prevailing geographies. To do so, I engage with the work of artists and activists who are using mapmaking grounded in Afrofuturism to reclaim and reimagine the space-times of properties deemed by city officials and developers to be “empty” or “wasted.” I suggest that while speculative cartographies of property facilitate the consolidation of liberal property regimes, they also allow for their disruption by revealing their situatedness and contingency – and by facilitating alternative visions of urban futures.

中文翻译:

空缺的猜测

长期以来,房地产投机一直在殖民者对土地的殖民占有和当代城市的种族化不平衡发展中发挥作用。这种以未来为导向的财产收购和管理方法的基础是空置概念,这些概念消除了过去和现在的占有形式,并将种族化的空间与缺乏和风险联系起来。通过预测映射工作来定义、表示和管理“空置”属性的投机价值,以消除现在和过去的方式殖民未来。在本文中,我反思了投机性的财产制图在具体化和破坏规范的城市财产制度方面的作用。具体来说,我研究了费城市使用制图工具来识别“可能”的财产空置以及它们与正在进行的种族化剥夺的关系。然后,我转向考虑投机(反)财产制图对新的政治现实做出贡献的潜力,而不仅仅是流行的地理。为此,我参与了艺术家和活动家的工作,他们使用基于非洲未来主义的地图制作来回收和重新想象被城市官员和开发商视为“空置”或“浪费”的房产的时空。我建议,虽然投机性的财产制图促进了自由财产制度的巩固,但它们也通过揭示它们的位置性和偶然性——并通过促进对城市未来的替代愿景来允许它们的破坏。我参与了艺术家和活动家的工作,他们使用基于非洲未来主义的地图制作来回收和重新构想被城市官员和开发商视为“空置”或“浪费”的房产的时空。我建议,虽然投机性的财产制图促进了自由财产制度的巩固,但它们也通过揭示它们的位置性和偶然性——并通过促进对城市未来的替代愿景来允许它们的破坏。我参与了艺术家和活动家的工作,他们使用基于非洲未来主义的地图制作来回收和重新构想被城市官员和开发商视为“空置”或“浪费”的房产的时空。我建议,虽然投机性的财产制图促进了自由财产制度的巩固,但它们也通过揭示它们的位置性和偶然性——并通过促进对城市未来的替代愿景来允许它们的破坏。
更新日期:2021-06-10
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