Colonial lives of property : law, land, and racial regimes of ownership / Brenna Bhandar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bhandar, Brenna, 1973- author.

Series:

Global and insurgent legalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Right of property.

Land tenure--Law and legislation.

Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Use

Propertied abstractions

Improvement

Status.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bhandar, Brenna, 1973- Colonial lives of property.

ISBN:

9780822371397

0822371391

9780822371465

0822371464

OCLC:

1000046571

Publisher Number:

40028216569