Hot stuff on property history from Greer 2018:
"'Property and Dispossession' challenges a set of assumptions, powerfully entrenched since the time of the Enlightenment, that sees property as a single thing, the hallmark of civilization and modernity.
"'Property and Dispossession' challenges a set of assumptions, powerfully entrenched since the time of the Enlightenment, that sees property as a single thing, the hallmark of civilization and modernity.
Europeans of the early modern period had "it," according to this view, Native Americans did not, and colonization meant installing this mechanism of progress on New World soil where it had previously been unknown.
Historians who would not dream of endorsing such ideological justifications of imperialism still tend to take a rather naive view of property, as though colonists arrived from Europe with a system of property that was somehow complete,
fully formed and fundamentally in line with that of the historian's own time."
Maybe it's just too much time on twitter, but "fuck you, it's complicated" is becoming my favorite intellectual posture.
Maybe it's just too much time on twitter, but "fuck you, it's complicated" is becoming my favorite intellectual posture.
OH SHIT, page 4:
“...natives were dispossessed as much by the settler commons as by any sort of colonial version of the Enclosure movement.”
“...natives were dispossessed as much by the settler commons as by any sort of colonial version of the Enclosure movement.”
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