Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory

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.

Author: Robert Nichols
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/20/2019
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781478006732
ISBN10: 1478006730
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- Law | Indigenous Law

About the Author
Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Minnesota and author of The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology.