Whiteness Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty

Jayden W.

This factsheet explores how the concepts of whiteness, possession and property act as a regulatory mechanisms of nation-states to reaffirm and reproduce the process of perpetual Indigenous dispossession. The factsheet explains how these concepts are deployed by nation states via the overregulation of Indigenous landscapes into property to refuse Indigenous sovereignty.

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References

Moreton-Robinson, A. (2015). The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/lib/uvic/reader.action?docID=2051599&ppg=12

Source Authors

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Keywords

Body Politics, Challenge Assumptions, Challenging Whiteness, Colonial Exploitation, Constructing 'Race', Identity, imperialism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Interrupting Colonial Narratives, Justifying Injustice, Land and Power, Land Dispossession, Language and Power, Nation Building Narrative, Ongoing Colonialism, Racist Language, Representations and Power, Settler Moves to Innocence, Slavery, Social Ideas and Power, Terra Nullius, White Privilege, White Supremacy

Locations

Australia, Canada, Hawai'i, New Zealand, North America, United States

Themes

History, Theory