The Politics of Property Ownership

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In an essay written around the time of Brexit and and Trump's election in 2016 you invoked this term of possessive nationalism a corollary to possessive individualism. I think it really gestured to really novel ways about how we might think about fighting the right by quote isstranging and deposing the possessive individual that are at the foundation of contemporary political formations, he says. He ends the book colonial lives of property saying "how these logics of possession and ownership inform the way we relate to others"

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