Theft is property! : dispossession and critical theory / Robert Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Robert, 1979- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Radical Américas

Radical Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Land tenure.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Claims.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--North America.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.

North America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"In THEFT IS PROPERTY! Robert Nichols develops the concept of "recursive dispossession" to describe the critical bind that indigenous activists face when seeking justice for the appropriation of their land: they simultaneously claim that their land was stolen by Anglo settlers, but also that territoriality and property ownership are themselves settler concepts. Putting indigenous thought into conversation with Marxist theory, Nichols argues that property relations under settler colonialism are built upon a structural form of negation, wherein some groups must be alienated from the very property that is being created. Thus, theft precedes and generates property, rather than vice versa, and indigenous claims of retroactive "original ownership" are not contradictory or logically flawed, but rather, gesture back to this very dynamic. By looking at dispossession as a unique historical process in the context of colonialism, Nichols shows how contemporary indigenous struggles have always already produced their own mode of critique and articulation of radical politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

That Sole and Despotic Dominion: Two Lineages

Marx, after the Feast

Indigenous Structural Critique

Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Nichols, Robert, 1979- Theft is property!

ISBN:

9781478007500

1478007508

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.