Tracing displacements: or evictions in the nomosphere
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In this paper I sketch some of the practical connections between two kinds of displacement: experiential ^material displacement and discursive or metaphorical displacement. I examine these connections in the context of legal struggles over the eviction of families from public housing. The evictions were authorized on the basis of interpretations of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (the `One Strike and You're Out' law) which allows public-housing authorities to evict blameless tenants if anyone in their family had been convicted of drug possession. The paper introduces a neologism, `the nomosphere', and offers suggestions as to its utility for advancing the project of critical legal geography. DOI:10.1068/d405
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