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88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries (The Urban Lives of Property Series V)

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Whiteness evolves as a form of racial identity that has protections in law that render it a form of treasured property.

The Urban Political podcast interviews Heather Dorries, assistant professor at the University of Toronto, about how settler colonialism and racial capitalism intersect through property and urban planning. Using the case of Brantford, Ontario, Dorries demonstrates how the city used seemingly neutral nuisance bylaws to criminalize the Haudenosaunee Development Institute's assertions of sovereignty over the Haldimand Tract, revealing planning's complicity in Indigenous dispossession.

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