A history of the turbulent struggle between activists and private interests in British Columbia.
From strikes at Vancouver Island coal fields in the early twentieth century to recent confrontations involving assertions of Indigenous rights, British Columbia has a long history of clashes between protesters and established interests. Protest, Property Rights, and Law in British Columbia investigates legal responses to those protests stretching back over more than a century.
As author Benjamin Isitt shows, whether through remote anti-logging blockades at Fairy Creek or tent encampments in downtown Vancouver, activists assert customary rights to property by appropriating space. In turn, property owners and managers deploy an array of legal remedies to uphold private rights by restoring control over space, notably through the use of injunctions, enlisting lawyers, judges, police, parliaments, and soldiers.
Isitt persuasively argues that the power of private interests in these judicial disputes has been undercut to a degree, raising questions of legal legitimacy and signalling a potential rebalancing of rights and interests.
| ISBN: | 9780774868754 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2026 |
| Author: | Benjamin Isitt |
| Publisher: | UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 386 pages |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Social discrimination and social justice Political activism / Political engagement Legal history |
A history of the turbulent struggle between activists and private interests in British Columbia.From strikes at Vancouver Island coal fields in the early twentieth century to recent confrontations involving assertions of Indigenous rights, British Columbia has a long history of clashes between protesters and established interests. Protest, Property Rights, and Law in British Columbia investigates legal responses to those protests stretching back over more than a century.As author Benjamin Isitt shows, whether through remote anti-logging blockades at Fairy Creek or tent encampments in downtown Vancouver, activists assert customary rights to property by appropriating space.
Protest, Property Rights, and the Law in British Columbia features in the following genres: History of the Americas, Social discrimination and social justice, Political activism / Political engagement, Legal history
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Protest, Property Rights, and the Law in British Columbia was written by Benjamin Isitt and published by UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press
Protest, Property Rights, and the Law in British Columbia has 386 pages
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