Class And Dispossession By Alex Dunedin
Channel: Ragged University
Date: 2023-11-28

This was a presentation which due to the conversational style where people were invited to interject, did not get to the end. The conversation discusses the enclosure of land in Britain, first through the development of statutory law before the more significant impositions on historical rights to the commons which were imposed leading up to the lowland and highland clearances of Scotland.  The aim was to end up discussing the decampment of financially poor populations to sink estates on the fringes of Edinburgh comparing policy documents describing these as visions of Patrick Geddes with the autoethnographic account written by Helen Crummy pointing out the failure of these estates as habitable landscapes.

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https://raggeduniversity.co.uk/2023/06/07/class-dispossession-clearances/


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