There is the righteous Wall, who lodges complaints on behalf of racial minorities and the poor: in "Mimic" (1982), a bearded lout makes an insulting gesture to an Asian man on a city street; "An Eviction" (1988, reworked in 2004) is an aerial view of a neighborhood in which a violent dispossession takes place.
Property possession norms are less costly to enforce than property ownership norms because it is easier for an enforcer to witness and to correct a forcible dispossession than to decide which among competing claimants "owns" a commodity that one of them has set down.
But passing was equally a reality of dispossession — a move away from families and communities that, once abandoned, couldn't easily be recovered or rejoined.
Through close analysis of state archives, regulatory documents, media, and key informant interviews, I analyze how the radioactive contamination of the home constitutes an in-situ dispossession, a material, corporeal and psychosocial dislocation in everyday life.
Kleinschmidt is a technician of dispossession; he is not a therapist.
She arrives solo to deliver a prologue of wrath and dispossession, clutching a suitcase and brandishing a large flag portraying the head of the new king, Edward IV (Monadhil Daood).
There might even have been a rearguard action by a fundamentalist left against the dispossession of a working class which, although it appeared to have little, had nevertheless forged bonds of solidarity and collective resistance, a defensive culture of humanity.
Over and again, it's there - rage, dispossession, a mile-wide streak of moral ambiguity, a feral gleam behind the eyes, a sneer across the face.
Shot the same year the Soviet Union was dissolved, the image is reminiscent of Daido Moriyama's famous photograph of a stray dog, taken outside an American military base in Japan, which serves as a metaphor of dispossession and defeat.
"Richard II" is an elegiac, strangely static play written entirely in verse; its title character is correspondingly contemplative, a decadent monarch who loses his crown to find himself as a philosopher of dispossession.
