Colonial Lives of Property

Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

Bibliographic Data

ID9288465
AuthorsBrenna Bhandar (corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages265
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byColonial lives of property: Law, land, and racial regimes of ownership, Christian Lund, 2019
VenueColonial lives of property (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822371571
OpenAlexW4251324729
Open LibraryOL26476006M
ISBN9780822371571
LanguageEN
Citations received478

"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."

Archaeology · Colonialism · Epistemology · Genealogy · Geography · Property (philosophy · Property (philosophy) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Business & Economics · Colonization · Indigenous peoples · Land tenure · law and legislation · Legal status, laws · Race discrimination · Real Estate · Real property · Right of property

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