Brenna Bhandar
Biographic Data
| ID | 644727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenna Bhandar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhandar |
| SIGNATURE | BHANDAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Property, Power, Politics: An Interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols
This article comprises an interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols by Andreas Folkers and Alain Pottage. It seeks to identify the conjuncture that has prompted the contemporary resurgence of questions of property in social theory. It takes critical work on the ‘colonial lives of property’ (Bhandar), neoliberalism (Brown), and colonial dispossession (Nichols) as a vantage point from which to identify the potentials and challe…
Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia
Pre‐emption, a legal instrument allowing settlers to acquire Indigenous land via occupation and improvement, is a vital means of colonial dispossession in North America, yet has received relatively little critical attention. Our analysis outlines its significance, shedding new light on the way in which private property power and state authority worked together to shore up colonial jurisdiction, title, and sovereignty in British Columbia. Pre‐empt…
Palestine Book Forum
Organised state abandonment: The meaning of Grenfell
Theft in Broad Daylight: Racism and Neoliberal Legality
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership
"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 up…
Representing Palestinian dispossession: Land, property, and photography in the settler colony
This article explores the centrality of property and dispossession to the operations of settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine through the prism of Edward Said and Jean Mohr's collaborative photographic essay After the Last Sky. Drawing on the way in which Said directs our attention to the meanings of land, place, and exile within Palestinian life and resistance, and putting his writing in dialogue with recent photographic projects that focus on…
Possession, occupation and registration: Recombinant ownership in the settler colony
No other aspect of property so infuses our social, psycho-symbolic, cultural and political realms as the idea of possession. Whether considering modern theories of subjectivity, relationships between people (from labour relations to intimate ones of love and affection), or indeed, what it means to own something, possession - as an amalgam of both spirit and fact - structures our thoughts, emotions and actions. The idea of self-ownership, whether …
Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou
Law, Sovereignty, and Recognition
Title by Registration: Instituting Modern Property Law and Creating Racial Value in the Settler Colony
The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space of the settler colony decades before it would be implemented in the United Kingdom. The author explores how the commodity logic of abstraction that subtended new property logics during this time, refl…
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction (review)
Reviewed by: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction Brenna Bhandar (bio) and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (bio) Catherine Malabou. Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction. Carolyn Shread (tr). New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. US $40.00 (hardcover), 96 pp. ISBN 9780231145244 Listen to me as one listens to the rain,not attentive, not distracted,light footsteps, thin dr…
Plasticity and Post-Colonial Recognition: Owning, Knowing and Being
Constituting Practices and Things: The Concept of the Network and Studies in Law, Gender and Sexuality
The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered
The article examines contemporary controversies over the rights of Muslim women to wear various forms of the veil, in both France and the United Kingdom and argues that despite their apparent differences as political ideologies, both multiculturalism and secularism are deployed as techniques to govern difference. It traces a common philosophical lineage of these two ideologies, and their shared genealogical relationship to the subject of Enlighte…
Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
(2007). Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 125-151
Anxious Reconciliation(s): Unsettling Foundations and Spatializing History
In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims ar…
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership
"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 up…
Title by Registration: Instituting Modern Property Law and Creating Racial Value in the Settler Colony
The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space of the settler colony decades before it would be implemented in the United Kingdom. The author explores how the commodity logic of abstraction that subtended new property logics during this time, refl…
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Plasticity and Post-Colonial Recognition: Owning, Knowing and Being
Anxious Reconciliation(s): Unsettling Foundations and Spatializing History
In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims ar…
The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered
The article examines contemporary controversies over the rights of Muslim women to wear various forms of the veil, in both France and the United Kingdom and argues that despite their apparent differences as political ideologies, both multiculturalism and secularism are deployed as techniques to govern difference. It traces a common philosophical lineage of these two ideologies, and their shared genealogical relationship to the subject of Enlighte…
Constituting Practices and Things: The Concept of the Network and Studies in Law, Gender and Sexuality
Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
(2007). Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 125-151
Anxious Reconciliation(s): Unsettling Foundations and Spatializing History
In this paper I explore the relationship between law, history, and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colonial sovereignty. By doing so, any potential for political transformation that lies in the objective of reconciliation is stunted; political challenges brought in the form of aboriginal rights claims ar…
Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
(2007). Re-Covering The Limits Of Recognition: The Politics Of Difference And Decolonisation In John Borrows’ Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 125-151
Constituting Practices and Things: The Concept of the Network and Studies in Law, Gender and Sexuality
The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism and Secularism Reconsidered
The article examines contemporary controversies over the rights of Muslim women to wear various forms of the veil, in both France and the United Kingdom and argues that despite their apparent differences as political ideologies, both multiculturalism and secularism are deployed as techniques to govern difference. It traces a common philosophical lineage of these two ideologies, and their shared genealogical relationship to the subject of Enlighte…
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction (review)
Reviewed by: Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction Brenna Bhandar (bio) and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (bio) Catherine Malabou. Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing: Dialectic, Destruction and Deconstruction. Carolyn Shread (tr). New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. US $40.00 (hardcover), 96 pp. ISBN 9780231145244 Listen to me as one listens to the rain,not attentive, not distracted,light footsteps, thin dr…
Plasticity and Post-Colonial Recognition: Owning, Knowing and Being
Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou
Law, Sovereignty, and Recognition
Title by Registration: Instituting Modern Property Law and Creating Racial Value in the Settler Colony
The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space of the settler colony decades before it would be implemented in the United Kingdom. The author explores how the commodity logic of abstraction that subtended new property logics during this time, refl…
Possession, occupation and registration: Recombinant ownership in the settler colony
No other aspect of property so infuses our social, psycho-symbolic, cultural and political realms as the idea of possession. Whether considering modern theories of subjectivity, relationships between people (from labour relations to intimate ones of love and affection), or indeed, what it means to own something, possession - as an amalgam of both spirit and fact - structures our thoughts, emotions and actions. The idea of self-ownership, whether …
Representing Palestinian dispossession: Land, property, and photography in the settler colony
This article explores the centrality of property and dispossession to the operations of settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine through the prism of Edward Said and Jean Mohr's collaborative photographic essay After the Last Sky. Drawing on the way in which Said directs our attention to the meanings of land, place, and exile within Palestinian life and resistance, and putting his writing in dialogue with recent photographic projects that focus on…
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership
"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 up…
Theft in Broad Daylight: Racism and Neoliberal Legality
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Organised state abandonment: The meaning of Grenfell
Palestine Book Forum
Property, Power, Politics: An Interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols
This article comprises an interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols by Andreas Folkers and Alain Pottage. It seeks to identify the conjuncture that has prompted the contemporary resurgence of questions of property in social theory. It takes critical work on the ‘colonial lives of property’ (Bhandar), neoliberalism (Brown), and colonial dispossession (Nichols) as a vantage point from which to identify the potentials and challe…
Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia
Pre‐emption, a legal instrument allowing settlers to acquire Indigenous land via occupation and improvement, is a vital means of colonial dispossession in North America, yet has received relatively little critical attention. Our analysis outlines its significance, shedding new light on the way in which private property power and state authority worked together to shore up colonial jurisdiction, title, and sovereignty in British Columbia. Pre‐empt…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works)