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

Main entry:

Bhandar, Brenna, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Global and insurgent legalities

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Introduction : property, law, and race in the colony -- Use -- Propertied abstractions -- Improvement -- Status -- Conclusion : life beyond the boundary.

Summary:

"[This book] 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, [The author] 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, [the author] 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."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

9780822371397 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0822371391 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780822371465 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0822371464 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(ebook)
9780822371571

Subject:

Colonization.
Right of property.
Land tenure Law and legislation.
Indigenous peoples Legal status, laws, etc.
Race discrimination Law and legislation.
Colonisation.
Droit de propriété.
colonization.
property rights.

Added entries:

Global and insurgent legalities.

Law, land, and racial regimes of ownership

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309849
Call No.: BIB 254996
Status: Available

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