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...

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Main Author: Nichols, Robert (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2020
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