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Published: 14 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060253-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6025-3
..., and Canton “inmate” case files, this chapter shows how the medical confinement of landholding Indian people at Canton led to land dispossession on a small-scale, case-by-case basis. Records reflect that approximately four hundred Indian people were forcibly confined to Canton—often as a result...
Published: 08 October 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376149-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7614-9
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 15 April 2022
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2256-5
...From TimeSpaces of Dispossession to the Forging of Indigenous Relations with Land ...
Published: 01 January 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021292-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2129-2
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By Arjun Shankar
... land dispossession racialization of agricultural castes economic mobility ...
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By Sarah A. Whitt
Published: 14 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6025-3
... Canton Asylum for Insane Indians medical confinement land dispossession ...
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By Arjun Shankar
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027119-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2711-9
... In chapter eight, Shankar positions the struggles of the NGO fieldworkers within a broader set of questions regarding land dispossession in South Karnataka and in the areas surrounding Banagalore city more specifically. Shankar shows tha,t in the wake of loss of agricultural land, the education...
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By Rachel Marie Niehuus
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 22 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027881-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2788-1
... dispossession was an important tactic of rule. In the postcolonial era, the wounds created during previous regimes have festered, and disputes over who has the right to which land fuels much of the current fighting in eastern Congo. As people seek to reconcile with this violent past, they return to the land...
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By Arjun Shankar
... accumulation. In Karnataka, the expansion of Bangalore has systematically led to the expropriation of rural land. As Shankar argues in chapter 8, the education NGO is a central terrain on which this dispossession is negotiated. To reveal this unfolding process, Shankar focuses on the mentors, who sought ways...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059479-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... collection museum. The chapter argues that, in the developmental history of personal art collections, there is a tandem history of worker, racial, and land dispossession. In tracking this, the chapter materializes the wealth accumulated through the suppression of collective bargaining and the dismantling...
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By John F. Collins
... race and ethnicity historicity archives truth evidence dispossession gentrification land grabbing World Heritage pragmatism C. S. Peirce UNESCO ...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060741-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6074-1
... to produce national desire and impulse in the service of settler formation and its constitutive projects of New World genocide and land dispossession. affect art frontierism nationalism subject formation ...
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By Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez
Published: 11 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060802-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6080-2
... Chapter 7 uses a legal landscape painting from 1614 to explore the dispossession of Indigenous lands and the policing of Indigenous bodies of the Andean highlands. Two measures were especially important: the sale of lands (composiciones de tierras) and the installment of an administrator...
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By Shona N. Jackson
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023814-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2381-4
.... It explains that this separation reinforces the break between exploitation (accumulative work) and dispossession (unproductive land). It argues that this break undergirds the labour-work divide, which produces anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity as structurally necessary for capital accumulation and to each...
Published: 07 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375876-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7587-6
... at the leading edge of this process, particularly in the nation’s north. The Díaz government’s political liberalism promoted the rapid expansion of commercial logging that led to the massive dispossession of village land, including the forests claimed by indigenous peoples. In Michoacán, timber barons...
Published: 07 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375876-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7587-6
... The Mexican revolution of 1910–1917 erupted, in part, as a response to the dispossession and commodification of the previous thirty years. Little fighting took place in the woodlands, but peasants and took advantage of the unrest to press for the return of their commons and better working...
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By Sara J. Grossman
Series: Elements
Published: 11 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027034-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2703-4
... The epilogue explores the world that data leaves in its wake. This final section of the book points toward the various excesses and losses inherited by a data system that has consumed not only the land but also the sky. By focusing on the legacy of defunct meteorological satellites, the epilogue...
Published: 07 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7587-6
... financed by United States investors were at the leading edge of this process, particularly in the nation’s north. The Díaz government’s political liberalism promoted the rapid expansion of commercial logging that led to the massive dispossession of village land, including the forests claimed by indigenous...
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By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... period, when competing actors sought land in the interior regions that the settlements once occupied. Shaped by displacement and diaspora, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries some Indigenous people rebelled, while others referenced their role as conquerors of Palmares to make land claims...
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By Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez
Published: 11 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060802-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6080-2
...New Imperial Designs Chapter 7 uses a legal landscape painting from 1614 to explore the dispossession of Indigenous lands and the policing of Indigenous bodies of the Andean highlands. Two measures were especially important: the sale of lands (composiciones de tierras) and the installment...