Center for Indigenous Studies, Center for Human Rights and the Arts, and Architecture Program Present

The Racial Politics of Pre-Emption: Property, Power and Deputization

Land dispossession in settler colonies was rooted in the assertion of colonial sovereignty, which empowered settlers to re-territorialize Indigenous lands and create a regime of private ownership. This talk explores the land law doctrine of pre-emption, which was a key modality of Indigenous land dispossession in British Columbia and throughout North America. It examines the nature of power that the state bestowed upon individual settlers to perform property even before they were bona fide owners. This particular land law doctrine elucidates the relationships between legality and illegality, and law and violence, in the making of racial regimes of ownership.

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For more information, call 518-495-9694, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://chra.bard.edu/event/brenna-bhandar-the-racial-politics-of-pre-emption-property-power-and-deputization/.

Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Online Event

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