
Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar
The Dig
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The Role of Race in Colonial Property Law
You address the scholarship on Aboriginal rights and you argue that it sometimes takes for granted that colonial imported property laws are racist. What do certain readings that conjure up race and racism as I guess an almost transcendent force say about how race is constructed? You're trying to crack open the legal doctrines but also more broadly we could say the juridical to understand how conceptions of racial difference are constitutively bound in a way which can only be explained by capitalism colonialism and property law. It's a very different kind of conceptual work and one which I think is very important.
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