Goodfellow, T. orcid.org/0000-0001-9598-5292 and Owen, O. (2020) Thick claims and thin rights: Taxation and the construction of analogue property rights in Lagos. Economy and Society, 49 (3). pp. 406-432. ISSN 0308-5147
Abstract
The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves. We use the case of Lagos to analyse property rights as ‘analogue’ rather than ‘digital’ in nature – things that only exist by degree, where a dynamic urban situation renders the distinction between a right and a claim much less clear than conventional approaches suggest. We argue that property taxation plays important and unanticipated roles in efforts to realize property rights. To fully understand attempts to construct rights it is necessary to analyse the range of payments, documents, social relations and other strategic moves that people make to thicken property claims in contexts of ‘radical insecurity’.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Property rights; taxation; tenure security; Lagos; Nigeria; radical insecurity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2020 16:37 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2021 10:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03085147.2020.1730587 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156057 |
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