Becoming Property

Becoming Property
Author: Katie Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300222791

This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early history of privilege legislation (today's copyright and patent) for books and inventions, and the translation of its legal terms by and for the image. Those terms are explored in their force of law and in relation to artistic discourse and creative practice in the early modern period. The consequences of commercially motivated law for art and its definitions, specifically its eventual separation from industry, are important aspects of the story. The artists who were caught up in disputes about intellectual property ranged from the officers of the Academy down to the lowest hacks of Grub Street. Lessons from this book may still apply in the 21st century; with the advent of inexpensive methods of reproduction, multiplication, and dissemination via digital channels, questions of intellectual property and the visual arts become important once more.

Property Tycoon

Property Tycoon
Author: Ian Samuels
Publisher: Harriman House Limited
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857194089

Property Tycoon offers a complete and incredibly revealing guide to EVERY aspect of residential property investment: whether you're looking to just dip into buy-to-let or want to use property to build up a substantial and life-changing income. Covering buying, managing, maintaining, financing and selling UK property, this book is written by someone who has made a success of buy-to-let investment for more than 20 years and through two booms and busts. Written in plain English, and filled with real-life case studies, it reveals the secrets of: - the questions every successful property investor asks themselves before buying a property - how to secure capital for your investment properties - where to get tradesmen, agents, mentors and tenants you can rely on - what it takes to manage and maintain different kinds of property portfolio and how to take your portfolio to the next level when the time is right - when to buy and sell, and how to make sure you get your way in auctions and off-plan deals. With housing in ever-increasing demand, and UK values showing an average rise in value of 9% a year for the last 60 years, today represents a great opportunity for anyone interested in entering the buy-to-let world. Property Tycoon is the friendliest and most up-to-date guide available.

Being Property Once Myself

Being Property Once Myself
Author: Joshua Bennett
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674980301

Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize “This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett’s analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have ‘been used against them as a tool of derision and denigration.’...An intense and illuminating reevaluation of black literature and Western thought.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post For much of American history, Black people have been conceived and legally defined as nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. In Being Property Once Myself, prize-winning poet Joshua Bennett shows that Blackness has long acted as the caesura between human and nonhuman and delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal—the rat, the cock, the mule, the dog, the shark—in the works of Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, and Robert Hayden. The plantation, the wilderness, the kitchenette overrun with pests, the valuation and sale of animals and enslaved people—all place Black and animal life in fraught proximity. Bennett suggests that animals are deployed to assert a theory of Black sociality and to combat dominant claims about the limits of personhood. And he turns to the Black radical tradition to challenge the pervasiveness of anti-Blackness in discourses surrounding the environment and animals. Being Property Once Myself is an incisive work of literary criticism and a groundbreaking articulation of undertheorized notions of dehumanization and the Anthropocene. “A gripping work...Bennett’s lyrical lilt in his sharp analyses makes for a thorough yet accessible read.” —LSE Review of Books “These absorbing, deeply moving pages bring to life a newly reclaimed ethics.” —Colin Dayan, author of The Law Is a White Dog “Tremendously illuminating...Refreshing and field-defining.” —Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery

When Things Become Property

When Things Become Property
Author: Thomas Sikor
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785334522

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Property Development

Property Development
Author: Alan Millington
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1135321582

"Property Development" includes such considerations as the objectives, functions, roles and methods of operation of all those involved in the development process, the financial aspects of development, social considerations, planning matters, and others, providing readers with the opportunity to develop their understanding of and their expertise in, the subject.

Rethink Property Investing, Fully Updated and Revised Edition

Rethink Property Investing, Fully Updated and Revised Edition
Author: Scott O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2023-09-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1394188587

The definitive guide to building a profitable commercial property portfolio — now fully updated and revised Australia’s bestselling commercial property book, Rethink Property Investing, offers practical advice for any investor looking to move beyond traditional residential real estate and enter the profitable world of commercial properties. Leading investors Scott and Mina O’Neill show you how they retired at the age of 28 and now live off the income generated by their $75 million commercial property portfolio. This invaluable guide dispels the investing myths and demystifies complex property principles and strategies using a clear, straightforward, and easy-to-understand approach. This is the book Scott and Mina wished they had when they started out: an honest, no-nonsense handbook filled with practical examples, personal stories, expert advice and real-world information. Rethink Property Investing aims to help you earn enough passive income to retire early and enjoy your life — whether you’re a residential property investor looking to go to the next level or an experienced investor seeking a more advanced approach. Now fully updated and revised, this edition shares detailed new property examples and gives the lowdown on value-add opportunities and investment strategies like syndicates. Rethink Property Investing will show you how to: Build your own commercial property portfolio following 7 Easy Steps and the Top 5 Property Plays Follow the strategies Scott and Mina O'Neill used to build a $75 million portfolio in 12 years Maximise the performance of your existing property portfolio using proven techniques Understand how different commercial properties perform, especially in the current economic climate and with current interest rates Find the best commercial property opportunities available today so you can build a $200K passive income Learn how you can create wealth successfully through commercial property investing, using simple yet powerful strategies from two people who have been there and done that. From developing an investment mindset to financing and managing your property, Rethink Property Investing will guide you every step of the way.

The Works

The Works
Author: William Warburton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1811
Genre: Sermons, English
ISBN:

Being and Owning

Being and Owning
Author: Jesse Wall
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191043842

When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain. A 'no property rule' which states that there is no property in the human body was first recorded in an English judgment in 1882. Claims based on property rights in the human body and its parts have failed on the basis that the human body is not the subject of property. Despite a recent series of exceptions to the 'no property rule', the law still has no clear answer as to the legal status of the body or its material. In this book, Wall examines the appropriate legal status of bodily material, and in doing so, develops a way for the law to address disputes over the use and storage of bodily material that, contrary to the current trend, resists the application of property law. Wall assesses when a person ought to be able to possess, control, use, or profit from, his or her own bodily material or the bodily material of another person. Bodily material may be valuable because it retains a functional unity with the body or is a material resource that is in short supply. With this in mind, Wall measures the extent to which property law can represent the rights and duties that protects the entitlement that a person may exercise in bodily material, and identifies the limits to the appropriate application of property law. An alternative to property law is developed with reference to the right of bodily integrity and the right to privacy.

Democracy as Fetish

Democracy as Fetish
Author: Ralph Cintron
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0271085630

Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desires for social order, global wealth, and justice but also how these desires cannot be satisfied. Throughout his discussion, Cintron includes ethnographic research from fieldwork conducted over the course of twenty years in the Latino neighborhoods of Chicago, where he observes both citizens and the undocumented looking to democracy to fulfill their highest aspirations. Politicians hand out favors to the elite, developers strong-arm aldermen, and the disenfranchised have little redress. The problem, Cintron argues, is that the conditions required to put democracy into practice—territory, a bordered nation-state, citizens, property—are constituted by inequality and violence, because there is no inclusivity that does not also exclude. Drawing on ethnography, economics, political theory, and rhetorical analysis, Cintron makes his case with tremendous analytic rigor. This challenge to reassess the discourses on democracy and to consider democratic politics as always compromised by oligarchy will be of particular interest to political and rhetorical theorists.

Transitioning

Transitioning
Author: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1783488468

Transitioning: matter, gender, thought takes the body, its ontologies and temporalities, as a primary ethnographic heuristic to explore transition contexts, relations and life processes. Although in Britain the Gender Recognition Act has, since 2004, provided a framework for identity recognition for those who seek to live as a member of the opposite gender, this book draws on trans men’s experiences to conceptualise transition outside this framework. Thinking through changing materialities, cultures and epistemologies of transition, the book brings together perspectives in anthropology, transgender studies, and social theory to think through how bodies happen, and the scales, assemblages, transmissions and indeterminacies in their process of becoming something other than themselves.