Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue

Ranganathan, Malini; Bonds, Anne

doi:10.1177/02637758221084101

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“…New avenues are opening to explore how colonial capitalism and dispossession structure indigenous, black and classed landscapes creating enduring racialized social formations and ongoing struggles for the return of the land and dignity (Gill 2021;Montenegro de Wit 2021;Gonda et al 2023). It has long been understood that property is a race-making institution, and this is no less the case in urbanizing agrarian social formations; resistance to urban exclusions are also taking the form of anticaste and anti-racist struggles (Ranganathan 2022;Ranganathan and Bonds 2022). In practice these forms of resistance are 'denaturalizing dispossession' (Hart 2006) and advocating for new forms of emancipatory land ownership and tenure relations.…”

Section: Labor Class Formation and Urban Agrarian Questionsmentioning

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Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

Shattuck

Grajales

Jacobs

et al. 2023

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work of ending colonialism run square through questions of land. The classical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a new intensity. We look at four dimensions of the agrarian question today: urbanization and labor; care and social reproduction; financialization and global food systems; and social movements. On this 50th anniversary of JPS, we as the journal's editors invite more research, vigorous debate, and scholar-activism on these issues in agrarian politics and beyond. We move into the journal's next era hoping we might continue to better interpret the world in order to change it..

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Section: Labor Class Formation and Urban Agrarian Questionsmentioning

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Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

Shattuck

Grajales

Jacobs

et al. 2023

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…Skye Naslund and Will McKeithen (2021), for example, make room for naming the worlds emerging from biosocial relationships between humans and helminths, intentionally orienting their proposition of and for a (brave) new world that goes beyond capitalist value and beyond the ontology of resource-as-commodity. Similarly, the Earthseed Collective, based in Durham, North Carolina, seeks connection through communion with land, rather than through the self-evidence of property as belonging to someone or something (Ranganathan and Bonds 2022), and through the understanding that social collapse, due to exploitation, devastation, and mass privatization, has already occurred (Purifoy 2020). In other words, intentionally existing differently within the OWW habitat holds the potential to recompose its web of constitutive relations.…”

Section: Unbounding the World Of Resourcesmentioning

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Resources are vexing!

Valdivia

Himley

Havice

2022

Progress in Environmental Geography

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Resource use and management are central concerns to environmental geography scholars, who have mobilized diverse approaches to examine the making, circulation, and socioecological effects of resources and resource systems. Informed by our reading of the resource geography literature and our experiences editing The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, we reflect on the role of resources in the study of human–environment interactions. First, we outline what we mean by “critical” in critical resource geography and identify approaches scholars working in this area have taken to understand resources and the worlds that are created and undone through their production, circulation, consumption, and disposal. We then identify an aporia internal to critical resource geography that derives from the field's centering of a concept—“resources”—that is fundamentally linked to the colonial and capitalist subjugation of peoples and environments. Building from this, we propose an orientation for the field that recognizes critique to be the starting point of a collective effort to “unbound” the World of Resources with the aim of making what are now familiar resource-relations unacceptable.

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“…While carceral real estate is commercial, rather than residential, real estate, this article contributes in a broad way to geographical research on “racialised regimes of ownership” in settler‐colonial contexts (Bhandar 2018; Ranganathan and Bonds 2022). The racialisation—and racism—of the US immigration system is well‐established, as admission and exclusion were founded upon fears of racial mixing and political efforts to protect “nativist” white, European‐descended settler colonists (see Jones 2022; Ngai 2004; Paik 2020; Zolberg 2008).…”

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Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate

Martin

2023

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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic and GEO Group. This article analyses how private corrections firms finance US immigrant detention capacity as a specialised asset class of government real estate. To understand the emergence of “carceral real estate”, I bring political geographies of migration into conversation with economic geographies of real estate. In doing so, I argue that creating “carceral real estate” enables the abstraction and valuation of migrant life as rent and, in turn, presumes a continuously flowing, fungible migrant population. In this context, migrants valued as underpaid labour in the wider economy are re‐valued for their unproductivity in detention. And yet this idealised geography of human and economic flows never fully materialises, but is instead rife with volatility, disruption, and political contestation. The article closes by discussing implications for abolition geographies.

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Racial regimes of property: Introduction to the special issue

Cited by 24 publications

References 69 publications

Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

Life on the land: new lives for agrarian questions

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Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate

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