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Nicholas Blomley
Areas of Interest:
I have a long standing interest in legal geography, particularly in relation to property. I am interested in the spatiality of legal practices and relationships, and the worldmaking consequences of such legal geographies. Much of my empirical work concerns the often oppressive effects of legal relations on marginalized and oppressed people. Recent and current research projects, often in collaboration with others, include a) the analysis of ‘rental precarity’ in Greater Vancouver; b) the study of court-imposed ‘red zones’ imposed on street-involved people and protestors in Montreal and Vancouver; c) the dispossession of Japanese-Canadians in the 1940s; d) a community-based project creating tenant-led research into precarious housing conditions in Vancouver’s most vulnerable population and e) the governance of poor people’s possessions by private and public regulators in Canadian cities. I am also trying to unpack the relationship between territory and property, and is interested in the practice of urban commoning. Past research has focused on topic such as gentrification, panhandling, urban gardening, and indigenous-state treaties.
Please contact me for more information on my research and teaching, or for graduate research opportunities.
- SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=134859
- Academia.edu: http://sfu.academia.edu/NickBlomley
- Research Gate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicholas_Blomley
Courses
Spring 2024
Future courses may be subject to change.