Theft Is Property!
Nichols, Robert, 1979-
Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory / Robert Nichols. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Radical Americas . - Radical Americas. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
That Sole and Despotic Dominion: Two Lineages -- Marx, after the Feast -- Indigenous Structural Critique -- Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill
Open Access
"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"--
9781478007500 1478007508
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--North America.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America--Claims.
Indians of North America--Land tenure.
Electronic books.
E98.L3 / N534 2020
970.004/97
Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory / Robert Nichols. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Radical Americas . - Radical Americas. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
That Sole and Despotic Dominion: Two Lineages -- Marx, after the Feast -- Indigenous Structural Critique -- Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill
Open Access
"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"--
9781478007500 1478007508
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--North America.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
Indians of North America--Claims.
Indians of North America--Land tenure.
Electronic books.
E98.L3 / N534 2020
970.004/97