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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]

Table of Contents:

• That Sole and Despotic Dominion
• Marx, after the Feast
• Indigenous Structural Critique
• Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill.

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Robert, 1979- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Theft is property!: dispossession & critical theory [by Nichols, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Theft is property! [by Nichols, R.] (Durham : Duke University Press 2020 — ISBN 9781478006732; LCCN 2019013470)

Related Series:

Radical Américas

Subjects:

Indians of North America — Land tenure

Indians of North America — Claims

Indians of North America — Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples — Land tenure — North America

Property — North America

Possession (Law) — North America

Eviction — North America

Socialism

Critical theory

Indians of North America

Indigenous peoples — Land tenure

Indigenous peoples

Property

Possession (Law)

Eviction

North America

System Details:

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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020.
digitized; 2020; HathiTrust Digital Library; committed to preserve
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E98.L3 N534 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781478007500 (electronic book)
1478007508 (qelectronic book)
9781478006732 (paperback) [Invalid]
1478006730 [Invalid]
9781478006084 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1478006080 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019981358

OCLC Numbers:

1108791745