@article{ref1,
title="Canada and the political geographies of rights",
journal="Canadian geographer",
year="2001",
author="Blomley, Nicholas and Pratt, Geraldine",
volume="45",
number="1",
pages="151-166",
abstract="For some observers, liberal rights are politically disempowering, while for others they can provide a basis for mobilization, resistance and the formation of counter-publics. Yet neither of these claims says much about the geography of rights, which provides the focus for our discussion. Rights are geographical in several senses: rights are often about access to space or place; in liberal societies, geographies of private and public shape access to rights; space naturalizes social relations; the politics of scale open up new debates about and strategies for attaining rights within and beyond Canada; and places are both defined and called upon in struggles over rights. In an exploration of two Canadian case studies - gentrification in Vancouver and the status of Filipina domestic workers - we examine the ways in which the geography of rights proves consequential to dominant and oppositional rights claiming. We briefly lay out the meaning and significance of rights, before a discussion of their political significance in the Canadian context.<p />",
language="",
issn="0008-3658",
doi="10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01180.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01180.x"
}