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Homelessness, social relations and institutional logics: property rights without property?
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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:54 authored by John Da Silva LuizJohn Da Silva Luiz, James RycroftWe explore whether there is evidence of property rights amongst the homeless, and if so, how these rights are governed. By conducting interviews with 52 homeless people in Cape Town, we show that although the homeless are able to derive some value from assets, and can exclude other members of their community, these rights are precarious and dependent upon state agents not seizing the ‘property’ and overriding the community’s rules of the game. We demonstrate the intersectionality of claims with respect to the same physical property from the varying perspectives of the claimants involved and how this differs depending on the property. Homeless people rely on a community logic to develop rules of the game which results in the appearance of a market logic. In the absence of formal institutions effectively operating in their spaces, they have constituted social norms which provide some semblance of property rights respected intra-group.
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Socio-Economic ReviewISSN
1475-1461Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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4Volume
18Page range
977-999Department affiliated with
- Strategy and Marketing Publications
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2018-06-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-07-17First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-06-21Usage metrics
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