Place, Space, and Time in the Sign of Property |
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Authors: | Robin Paul Malloy |
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Institution: | (1) College of Law, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA |
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Abstract: | Property is a complex sign in semiotics. It is also the source of tension and conflict in law. This paper examines property
in triadic terms consisting of what Charles S. Peirce would identify as the icon (firstness), the index (secondness), and
the symbol (thirdness). From this perspective the paper explores the ideas of place, space, and time at the iconic level of
the sign of property. Discussion addresses the way in which property serves as a coded system for communicating information
about a given community’s values and its cultural-interpretive hierarchy. Much like an aboriginal songline, property functions
as a way of imprinting the land with impressions of social ordering related to place, space, and time. In the context of global
trade we therefore observe property conflicts which are sometimes not so much about the technical language of property as
they are about tensions among the embedded values in competing signs of property.
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