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Theft is property! : dispossession & critical theory Robert Nichols

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Author:
Nichols, Robert 1979-  Search this
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ProQuest (Firm)  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
North America
Date:
2020
Notes:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Contents:
That Sole and Despotic Dominion -- Marx, after the Feast -- Indigenous Structural Critique -- Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill
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
Topic:
Land tenure  Search this
Claims  Search this
Legal status, laws, etc  Search this
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure  Search this
Indians of North America--Claims  Search this
Indians of North America--Land tenure  Search this
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc  Search this
Call number:
E98.L3 N534 2020 (Internet)
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