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New publication from the "Structural Change in Property" series published: "Relating to Landed Property"

With the co-edited volume “Relating to Landed Property”, part of the series Strukturwandel des Eigentums, Sofia Bianchi Mancini (Junior Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg), Helen A. Gibson (Post-doc researcher in the SFB sub-project A02 “Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century), Dirk Schuck (Post-doc researcher in the SFB sub-project A03 “Property and habit: On the political anthropology of ownership in Western modernity”) and Markus Vinzent (Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg and director of the Meister-Eckhart-Research Centre) present an impressive, interdisciplinary collection of contributions that tackle the questions of how space is conceptualised and constituted through historical and religious claims to land ownership, and how dispossession is enacted and theorised in changing property regimes.

Specifically, the essays in this volume engage with postcolonial critiques of land tenure and provide a much-needed contextualisation of the ways in which histories of divine possession, empire, settler colonialism, slavery and the dispossession of indigenous peoples inform contemporary practices of land tenure. Bringing together perspectives from the fields of religious studies, history, philosophy, legal history, economics and sociology, this book makes an important contribution to linking theory and practice in the critique of contemporary property regimes in Europe and North America; it also provides methodological suggestions for grounding theoretical discussions in a nuanced understanding of the past.

Further information about the publication: 

Relating to Landed Property
Sofia Bianchi Mancini (Hg.), Helen A. Gibson (Hg.), Dirk Schuck (Hg.) & Markus Vinzent (Hg.)
from the series: Structural Change in Property
Campusverlag, 2024
ISBN: 9783593518985
290 pages, 40,-€
Link to publisher's website

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