Property as Warfare: A talk by Brenna Bhandar

Event Description

By which mechanisms are assertions of Indigenous jurisdiction and the refusal of colonial sovereignty reduced to property disputes? How does colonial sovereign power work in conjunction with the logics and material realities of private property ownership to constrain and suppress political action that poses a threat to regimes of settler colonial extractivism? This talk addresses these questions through a consideration of the place of property as a legal form in contemporary conditions of crisis and current iterations of the 'warfare' state.

For the third edition of Darstellung, hosted by the SFU Department of English, Allard Law Professor Brenna Bhandar will deliver a talk titled 'Property as Warfare.'

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Speaker

Brenna Bhandar was a Reader in Law and Critical Theory at SOAS, University of London, and previously held faculty positions at the Queen Mary School of Law, Kent Law School and the University of Reading Law School. She has also held visiting appointments at L’École des hautes études en science sociales (Paris) and the Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (South Africa). She lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish First Nations. She is the author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (DUP: 2018) and co-editor (with Rafeef Ziadah) of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (Verso: 2020).