The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice

by Cristy Clark and John Page

Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square. They draw on a range of case studies including the 13th century Forest Charter, Thomas More's Utopia, the Diggers' radical agrarianism, the Paris Commune's battle for the right to the city, and Australian forest protestors of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474487440
• ISBN13: 9781474487443
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"