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July 29, 2026Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceOpen Access

Entitlement, aspiration, and the spatial politics of exemption

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IKIlan Kapoor

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This article examines how entitlement shapes inequality and environmental policies in contemporary neoliberal systems, suggesting broader implications.

Key Points

  • The article investigates how entitlement operates within neoliberal capitalism and its impact on inequality and environmental governance.
  • Conceptual analysis drawing on psychoanalytic theory to frame the notion of entitlement.
  • Examination of urban forms, infrastructure, property relations, and environmental governance.
  • Critical engagement with economic geography and political-economic analyses.
  • Entitlement is shown to stabilize economic phenomena like rent and monopoly through affective mechanisms.
  • In the Global South, aspiration is increasingly directed towards elite exemption rather than equality.
  • Neofeudal structures are identified as increasingly integral to the continuation of capitalist frameworks.

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Ilan Kapoor (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a69a25ec8da07d9defa5afehttps://doi.org/10.1177/02637758261472243
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