Nullius : the anthropology of ownership, sovereignty and the law in India / / Kriti Kapila

• Autore: Kapila Kriti
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, Illinois : , : HAU Books, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 195 pages)
• Disciplina: 346.5404
• Soggetto topico: Property; Property - Social aspects; Sovereignty - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto geografico: India
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 -- Nullius: An Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 -- The Promise of Law -- CHAPTER 3 -- The Truths of Dispossession -- CHAPTER 4 -- Terra Nullius: The Territory of Sovereignty -- CHAPTER 5 -- Res Nullius: The Properties of Culture -- CHAPTER 6 -- Corpus Nullius: The Labor of Sovereignty -- CHAPTER 7 -- Coda: The Illusion of Property -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated. The book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nullius
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910645996303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II