Colonial Lives of Property Colonial Lives of Property
Global and Insurgent Legalities

Colonial Lives of Property

Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

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Publisher Description

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2018
3 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
280
Pages
PUBLISHER
Duke University Press
SIZE
2.8
MB

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