ID - 61418518 TI - Theft is property! Dispossession & critical theory PY - 2020 SN - 1478007508 1478006080 1478090251 9781478007500 9781478006084 9781478006732 PB - Durham, N.C. Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Indians of North America KW - Land tenure KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Claims. KW - Land tenure. KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Ethnology KW - Land titles KW - Real property KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Colonisation. Decolonisation KW - North America KW - Indis de l'Amèrica del Nord KW - Reclamacions KW - Situació legal, lleis, etc. KW - Tinença de la terra KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - First Nations (North America) KW - Indians of the United States KW - Native Americans KW - North American Indians KW - Indis d'Amèrica del Nord KW - Culture KW - Cultura KW - Etnologia KW - dispossession KW - colonialism KW - Indigenous politics KW - critical theory KW - Marxism KW - critical race theory KW - property UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61418518 AB - "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"-- ER -