SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Space, Transport Corridor, Welfare Fraud
19 Oct 2017
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Lecture 7: legal geography- regulation of public space. Spatialization and subject-making; space and citizenship: space seems to us to be empty, either we fill it with things (houses, etc) or nature fills it with trees here: space is innocent. In the same way that spaces appear to develop organically, so too the inhabitants of space seem to belong to them. But blomley demonstrates how it far from that: regulation of begging and protest, bccla: public space should be seen as a site of expression and speech, not just a transport corridor. Inadequate housing, lack of access to employment and education. Neo-liberalism: profits instead of needs (profit over people, the privatization of public services, the removal of trade barriers (product not people) Economic restructuring: local examples of the neo-liberal project. Ontario ministry of community and social services- welfare fraud hotline: available for the public to report suspected cases of ontario works or ontario disability.
