Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar
Date: 20 June 2018Time: 4:00 PM
Finishes: 20 June 2018Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: SALT
Type of Event: Book Launch
Please join us for the launch of Brenna Bhandar’s new book (with reception to follow), which will include presentations from:
Peter Fitzpatrick (Honorary Professor, Kent Law School)
Avery Gordon (Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Robert Knox (Lecturer in Law, Liverpool University)
Chair: Rafeef Ziadah (Lecturer in Politics, SOAS)
What are the colonial origins of modern property law? How have modern laws of property emerged in conjunction with racial subjectivities? In Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Duke UP, 2018), Brenna Bhandar examines both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, and 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. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.
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