Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada’s Prison for Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110665
Author(s):  
Lisa Guenther
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Federal Prison ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Heritage Building

A group of women who were incarcerated at Canada’s first federal Prison for Women (P4W) have been fighting to create a memorial garden since the prison closed in 2000. In 2017, the prison was sold to a private developer who plans to convert the historic building and grounds into condos, retail, and office space. What does it mean to remember the dead, and to fight for the living, at a time when neoliberal common sense demands the efficient conversion of a place of suffering and death into a “heritage building” on “prime real estate”? How might a collective practice of radical imagination help to resist the commodification of memory into a tourist attraction or an aesthetic improvement of private property? And what is the relation between memory, healing, and accountability in a place where state violence, gender domination, and settler colonialism intersect?

scholarly journals A ação espacial do turismo: análise dos atrativos e equipamentos turísticos na Serra do Cipó (MG)

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Solano de Souza Braga ◽  
Bernardo Machado Gontijo ◽  
Leandro Martins Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Reproductive Activity ◽  
Serra Do Cipó ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Common ◽  
Urbanized Areas

O presente artigo pretende trazer reflexões e alternativas para o entendimento da ação espacial do turismo. Apesar do senso comum encarar o turismo como uma atividade reprodutora do espaço urbano (por meio da introdução de práticas como a prestação de serviços, especulação imobiliária, aculturação etc.), o que será proposto é um exercício contrário: pensar que o espaço urbano atua como produtor / reprodutor da atividade turística em espaços rurais e naturais. Considera-se, neste caso, a infraestrutura em áreas urbanizadas e semiurbanizadas como fator primordial para o desenvolvimento da atividade turística. Tourism space of action: an analysis of the attractions and tourist facilities in the Serra do Cipó (MG, Brazil) Abstract This article aims to bring ideas and alternatives for understanding the tourism space of action. Despite the common sense view tourism as a reproductive activity of urban space (through the introduction of practices such as services, real estate speculation, acculturation etc.), what is proposed here is an opposite exercise: thinking that the urban space acts as producer / reproducer of the touristic activity in rural and natural spaces. The infrastructure in urbanized and semi urbanized areas is considered in this case as a key factor for the development of the touristic activity. Keywords: Tourism, Space Organization, Rural and Urban.

Belgium

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Property Owners

Nazi Germany invaded Belgium in 1940 and occupied the country until 1944. More than 26,000 Jews were deported from Belgium during the Holocaust and less than 2,000 of them survived. Owing to unique aspects of Belgian law still in force during the occupation, less than 10 percent of Jewish real estate was sold by the German occupying power. Most private property that came under German administration was rented out and the proceeds put into blocked accounts for the benefit of the original property owners. After the war, there was no organized process for seeking payment of the rental account balances or for seeking restitution or compensation for real estate that had been sold by the German administration. In the late 1990s, the Belgian government’s Study Commission—established to examine the fate of Jewish property during the war—found it difficult to identify any remaining unrestituted immovable property because of the ad hoc manner of its return after the war. Notwithstanding this difficulty, an Indemnification Commission was established in 2001 to compensate individuals whose property (immovable and movable) had not been previously compensated/returned. Belgium endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.

An examination of the structure and dynamics of Singapore's maturing Central Area office market

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Hin David Ho ◽  
Satyanarain Rengarajan ◽  
John Glascock
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Equilibrium Relationship ◽  
Office Market ◽  
Office Employment ◽  
Office Rent

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure and dynamics of Singapore's Central Area office market. A long-run equilibrium relationship is tested and a short-run adjustment error correction model are estimated, incorporating appropriate serial error correction. The long-run equation is estimated for office rent, with office employment and available stock. Design/methodology/approach – With the vector error correction model (VECM), the lagged rent, available stock, office employment, vacancy and occupied stock (OS) can impact the rental adjustment process. Equilibrium rent on the whole reacts positively to lagged rents, available stock, office employment, OS and negatively to vacancy rates (VC). Past levels of positive change in VC and rental growth can have negative effects on current OS. Findings – While good economic conditions signaled by increases in rents increase the supply of new stock (available space), higher rents and VC dampen the long-term occupied space (space absorption) in accordance with economic theory. Available stock can be forecasted by past rent and absorption levels owing to the developer's profit-driven nature. Research limitations/implications – An understanding of the interaction between the macroeconomic variables and the Central Area office market is useful to domestic and foreign investors and developers, who then can better evaluate their decision making in commercial real estate investment and development projects. Practical implications – It is implicit that the Singapore Central Area office market requires at least a year before any rental increase can potentially dampen the space demanded. Firms are attracted to locate there owing to agglomeration economies and they are willing to pay premium office rents in conjunction with office space intensification in the Central Area. Newly built space is positively affected by past rents. Urban Redevelopment Authority and private real estate developers should be wary of excess office sector vacancies by avoiding over supply, even though an increase in the supply of office space in the Central Area can have a positive impact on office rent in the longer term. Most of the office space development would tend to meet the demand in the long run. Rental stickiness is exemplified as rental changes are affected by lagged rent. Social implications – Policy makers are better enabled to stabilize the office sectors of the real estate market if so required. Originality/value – The paper adopts the VECM and validated by empirical evidence, to investigate the long-run equilibrium relationship and short-term corrections underlying the dynamics of the Singapore Central office market. Delay in the restoration of equilibrium in real estate markets is attributed to factors like lease terms and supply lags.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Renewal and Built Heritage Conservation in a Global Real Estate Revolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W.C. Lai ◽  
Frank T. Lorne
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Coase Theorem ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
New Development ◽  
Built Heritage Conservation

Abstract: A global real estate revolution has been transforming the urban landscape everywhere. Development and redevelopment projects have mixed with, if not become an integral part of, real estate construction. At the same time, there is a drive to commodification in this revolution, as shown by a growing trend to conserve built heritage in new development projects characterised by the rise of museums. This paper reviews some examples of attempts in various parts of the world to combine real estate development and conservation and applies the fourth Coase theorem to explore how built heritage conservation and urban renewal in Hong Kong, hitherto problematic in terms of their invasion of private property, can become a win-win outcome in the context of this global real estate revolution.

Real Estate Administration - Notion, Forms and Legal Regime

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 619-623
Author(s):  
Violeta Herea ◽  
Eduard Antohie
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Core ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
University Level ◽  
Main Activity

The extent of this field, namely of real estate administration, due to the fact that private property holds the majority compared to public property after 1989, imposed the emergence of profile firms / companies in the field, but also the need to train specialists for this type of activity. Why the real estate administration? Perhaps this question should be the starting point for the reason why we advocate for this type of activity and thus for the training at university level, thus giving it the importance it deserves. The answer to this question is argued by: the capital invested is very small, solvent customers, regular revenues, chances of gains from good to very good, a multilateral activity due to the complexity of administration. On the other hand, this type of activity may be carried out in parallel with the main activity, namely the basic one of each of us. Therefore, many prospective real estate administrators begin to provide services in this area without sacrificing the core business, while performing these along with another activity for another institution. In analysing this issue we invoke the regulations in force which legislate the field which represents the purpose of our analysis. Also, we will present you the advantages of this kind of activity.

Incarcerated Stories

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Speed
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Structural Condition ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Sophisticated Analysis

Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention, and human trafficking. Speed dubs this vulnerability "neoliberal multicriminalism" and identifies its relation to settler structures of Indigenous dispossession and elimination. Using innovative ethnographic practices to record and recount stories from Indigenous women in U.S. detention, Speed demonstrates that these women's vulnerability to individual and state violence is not rooted in a failure to exercise agency. Rather, it is a structural condition, created and reinforced by settler colonialism, which consistently deploys racial and gender ideologies to manage the ongoing business of occupation and capitalist exploitation. With sensitive narration and sophisticated analysis, this book reveals the human consequences of state policy and practices throughout the Americas and adds vital new context for understanding the circumstances of migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

scholarly journals Impact of Corona Virus on Indian Real Estate

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 2105-2112
Author(s):  
Ar. Garima Singh
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Sales Strategy ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Demand Rates ◽  
Real Estate Developers ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: This paper talks about the impact of corona virus on Indian Real Estate in terms of Demand, Rates of property, impact on Indian housing market, home buyers in India, builders in India, office space in India. What interventions government should take in response to COVID-19 to boost the demand and what sales strategy real estate developers taking post lockdown.

scholarly journals Cultivating the Soil of White Nationalism: Settler Violence and Whiteness as Territory

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Dallas Jokic
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The State ◽  
White People ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Fear Mongering ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Property Regime

This paper considers the emergence of white nationalist movements in Canada and their relationship to settler colonialism. How do ideas of Canada as a white nation, and fear mongering about white Canadians being “replaced” come to be so effective in a context in which white people have typically been the replacers themselves? While the Canadian state frames itself as multicultural, many of its laws and practices cultivate white nationalist beliefs, affects, and feelings. The state informally deputizes white settlers as owners and protectors of private property and uses them to dispossess Indigenous peoples from their land in order to appropriate it. This deputization protects both the material territory of the state and the affective and ideological justification for the continuation of settler colonialism. Private ownership of land cannot be understood merely as a legal capitalist relation, but is feltby many settlers as a deep, primordial connection to the land. Acts of settler violence both express and shape the racialized core of Canada. I propose thinking about settler private property as what I call “settler whitespace,” which is not only protective and expansive, but also involves the fabrication of an idea of white nativity to Canadian territory. This racialization of space serves to naturalize racist violence, cultivate hypermasculine expressions of whiteness, and ground white claims of exclusive belonging to Canada, all characteristic of the resurgent far-right. The property regime of Canada is not just part of its territorializing project; it lays the groundwork for white nationalist movements.

scholarly journals Features Of The Legal Regime Of National Parks Under The Legislation Of The Republic Of Poland

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
N.R. Kobetska
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Private Property ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Problematic Issue ◽  
The Republic

The article presents an analysis of one of the oldest and most important forms of nature conservation - National Parks, and their regulation in the legislation of the Republic of Poland. The material is based on the systematic interpretation of the Law of the Republic of Poland «On Nature Conservation», the analysis of scientific literature and the identification of some problematic issues of implementation of the prescriptions of the legislation in practice. Much attention is paid to the theoretical characteristics of National Parks, their place among other forms of nature conservation in Poland, the functions they perform. The issues of creation of the National Park, the regime of management of its territory, organization and zoning of the National Park have been consistently revealed. It also analyzes the bans fixed within the National Park and ensures its protection against external adverse effects. Problematic issues are raised related to the removal of land and real estate from private owners, the achievement of a compromise between private economic interests and public environmental interests. A comparison of the basics of functioning of National Parks in Poland and Ukraine is also partly presented. The author focuses on the differences in the legal regime of national nature parks under the legislation of Ukraine and Poland. The Polish legislation does not distinguish as an independent recreational function and does not allocate separate recreational functions within the national park. At the same time, the organization of tourist routes and the provision of conditions for visiting the park is one of the tasks and a significant source of revenue for the national parks of Poland, and the number of visitors many times exceeds their number in the territories of the national parks of Ukraine. In the territory of the national parks of Poland (as in Ukraine) a combination of exclusive state ownership (in Ukraine - the property of the Ukrainian people) and private property is possible. At the same time, as in Ukraine, the most problematic issue is the acquisition of ownership of real estate (including private land) when creating or expanding the territory of national parks.

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