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Everything about Repossession
Legal right to take back property
Repossession, commonly referred to as repo, is a "self-help" type of action in which the party having the right of ownership of a property takes the property in question back from the party having right of possession without invoking court proceedings. The property may then be sold by either the financial institution or third party sellers. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: RepossessionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellnessInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: IcedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed SovereigntyCited 203 times
- Go sideways: Secured transactionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Self-help (law)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The condition of being repossessed.
Noun The act of repossessing.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty
Geotrauma: Violence, place and repossession
Anishinabe youth perceptions about community health: Toward environmental repossession
Collateral, Ease of Repossession, and Leases: Evidence from Antirecharacterization Laws
Repossession and the Democratization of Credit
REPOSSESSION: Notes on Restoration and Redemption in Ukraine's Western Borderland
Families coping with the experience of mortgage repossession in the 'new landscape of precariousness'
‘But We Were Thousands’: Dispossession, Resistance, Repossession and Repression in Mandela Park
🆕 Influential since 2022
Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness
The Imider protest camp: resistance by repossession and lived citizenship at the global margins of Moroccan society
Accumulation by repossession: Capitalist settler colonialism in Coast Salish territory
Tangata Whenua, People Born of the Land: From Corporate Dispossession and Repossession to Severance and Reconnection
Volatility challenges for natural resources during COVID-19 and its impact on economic development for sustainable economic repossession
📚 Books worth reading
IcedJenny Siler · 2000
The repoBill Eidson · 2003- 📕Information to claimantsUnited States. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms · 1985
The midnight plan of the repo manW. Bruce Cameron · 2014
Repo madnessW. Bruce Cameron · 2016
PregnesiaCarla Cassidy · 2009- 📕RepossessionsCarolyn L. Carter · 2010
RancheroRick Gavin · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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