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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brenna BhandarPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780822371397ISBN 10: 0822371391 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 25 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Property, Law, and Race in the Colony 1 1. Use 33 2. Propertied Abstractions 77 3. Improvement 115 4. Status 149 Conclusion: Life beyond the Boundary 181 Notes 201 Bibliography 239 Index 257ReviewsI am obsessed with the force and eloquence with which [Bhandar] analyzes the birth of private property and its ongoing devastating effects. This book is going to be precious to me and many other people, too. -- Jordy Rosenberg * Shelf Awareness * In this original study, Brenna Bhandar analyzes the constitutive role of colonialism in the development of modern property law and the modern legal subject. Bhandar's sophisticated comparative research on the political-economic imagination and legal infrastructure of settler colonialism is completely fascinating. And, her stunning elaboration of what she names 'racial regimes of ownership' is utterly brilliant. A timely and essential book that will fundamentally change the way we think about race, property, and subjectivity. -- Avery F. Gordon, author of * The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins * Brenna Bhandar's enthralling book peels the veneer of property law from that which lies concealed beneath-the multiplicitous structures in dominance that define our contemporary settler-colonial world, all the way from Parramatta to Palestine. Here is a trenchant reassertion of the capacities of Marxist analysis to plumb dispossessions both historic and current, and to expose the entwined regimes of ownership and of racial hegemony that sustain them. -- Christopher Tomlins, author of * Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 * This powerful and profoundly political book explores ownership through the prism of the modern emergence of property law and contemporaneous conceptualizations of race. In colonial jurisdictions property law-that 'terrible right'-legalized and continues to legitimate the expropriation of land and wealth, structuring a form of domination adequate to it. Two questions lie at the core of Brenna Bhandar's analysis: in light of the travels of property law between the metropole and the colonies, is it possible today to push back against it? So that, along with law, property too may be thrown into question? -- Antonio Negri Author InformationBrenna Bhandar is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and coeditor of Plastic Materialities, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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