The Colonial Lives of Property, abolitionist Struggles and alternative Imaginations Brenna Bhandar in conversation with Daniel Loick

With her book “Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership,” released in 2018, the writer and scholar Brenna Bhandar has made a vital contribution to the inquiry into the nexus between the historical evolution of the idea of property and colonialism.
In the following conversation with the philosopher Daniel Loick, she explains how land allocation in its juridical form was implemented using racist methods of dispossession, giving rise to a subjectivity grounded in power and entitlement that still informs Western superior thinking about ownership and property relations.