Property as a legal assemblage works to produce and imagine space according to a dominant set of norms and principles, thereby casting an imagined projection into multiple worlds. This unduly narrows the lens through which governance actors perceive and mediate competing claims to urban space. In this article we engage this feature of property in the context of contestation over urban land in Durban, an intensely plural city of the global South. We focus on three sets of spatial practices that are, in different ways, in tension with municipal governance objectives in Durban to probe how social actors interface with property law through divergent logics and lexicons. We argue that a more hybrid legal conception of property is required to enable just and normatively hybrid governance of these (often competing) claims.

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房地产的影子：南非德班的土地和多元性治理

财产作为一种合法的组合，可以根据一套主导的规范和原则来生产和想象空间，从而将想象的投影投射到多个世界中。这过度缩小了治理行为者感知和调解对城市空间的竞争性主张的视角。在本文中，我们在德班（南半球高度多元化的城市）城市土地争夺的背景下探讨了财产的这一特征。我们重点关注三组空间实践，它们以不同的方式与德班的市政治理目标产生紧张关系，以探讨社会参与者如何通过不同的逻辑和词汇与物权法互动。我们认为，需要一种更加混合的财产法律概念，才能对这些（通常是相互竞争的）主张进行公正和规范的混合治理。