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Theft Is Property!
Dispossession and Critical Theory
Author(s)
Nichols, Robert
Collection
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishAbstract
Drawing on Indigenous peoples' struggles against settler colonialism, Theft Is Property! reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present. Through close analysis of arguments by Indigenous scholars and activists from the nineteenth century to the present, Robert Nichols argues that dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated. In so doing, Nichols also brings long-standing debates in anarchist, Black radical, feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial thought into direct conversation with the frequently overlooked intellectual contributions of Indigenous peoples.
Keywords
dispossession; colonialism; Indigenous politics; critical theory; Marxism; critical race theory; propertyDOI
10.1215/9781478090250ISBN
9781478007500; 9781478006732; 9781478006084Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2020Classification
Indigenous peoples
Relating to Indigenous peoples