Powerful groups dominate space through legal and illegal means

Evidence

3 The domination of space reflects how individuals or powerful groups dominate the organization and production of space through legal or extra-legal means so as to exercise a greater degree of control either over the friction of distance or over the manner in which space is appropriated by themselves or others. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1396

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Harvey’s class-power analysis of urban restructuring and to the Milgrom discussion of extra-legal institutional control. — connects to: Public and private space boundaries shift with power struggles; War drives the regular mechanisms of power beneath the law; A dominant minority can hold power through threats and enforced coordination costs — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 287 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Public and private space boundaries shift with power struggles #expands (0.82)
• Elites occupy an interconnected world where the usual laws are shrugged off #corroborates (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 446
• A dominant minority can hold power through threats and enforced coordination costs #corroborates (0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 287
• The rule of law is selectively enforced on racial groups framed as threats #exemplifies (0.78) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 914
• War drives the regular mechanisms of power beneath the law #expands (0.75)
• Everyday disciplinary micro-practices form the political underbelly of legal norms #expands (0.74) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 347
• Groups behave like residents and take over public space with abandon #exemplifies (0.72)