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In Chapter 3 I develop the concepts of belonging and primitive property. I understand belonging as working in two ways. The first way is subject–object belonging, upon which standard ownership models are based: subjects possess objects. The second way is part-whole belonging: people are part of their culture, therefore they belong to it. Using this framework, I then further develop my concept of primitive property. Finally, I suggest that the concept of place centers on personhood, on cultural identity. As I argue in the subsequent chapters, legal definitions of nuisance align more closely with dominant Anglo cultural assumptions about legitimacy than with corresponding ideas of legitimacy in more marginal Latino cultural complexes. This rift is a central mechanism in the gentrification of space.
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Langegger, S. (2017). Rights to Public Space. In: Rights to Public Space. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41177-4_3
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