Theft Is Property! : Dispossession and Critical Theory /
Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
| Published: |
Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2019]
|
| Series: | Radical Américas : 16
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing, Nichols also brings long-standing debates in anarchist, Black radical, feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9781478090250 1478090251 |