Property, Race, Colonialism, and Capitalism
In colonial regimes, dominant conceptions of private property developed alongside racial hierarchies.
Brenna Bhandar is a law professor at the University of British Columbia, the author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership, and a coeditor of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought.
In colonial regimes, dominant conceptions of private property developed alongside racial hierarchies.
Police and mass incarceration are only the most visible and obvious manifestations of the prison-industrial complex. Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that the prison-industrial complex is a holistic social organizing principle that pervades life under capitalism.
We need to fight for social housing instead of private ownership. Spain’s anti-eviction movement shows how we can do it.