{"product_id":"the-white-possessive-9780816692163","title":"The White Possessive","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Aileen Moreton-Robinson brilliantly shows how systematically identifying whiteness with possession and dispossession deserves foregrounding in Indigenous studies.\"—David Roediger, University of Kansas, author of \u003ci\u003eSeizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe White Possessive \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases the unique intellectual contribution of Aileen Moreton-Robinson, both within Australia and internationally. Prising apart concepts of race, ethnicity, and cultural difference, her book makes visible and accountable to patriarchal white subject of possession that subtends them.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moreton-Robinson provides her readers with an indispensable theoretical analysis with which they can (re)think the way in which the possessive logics of whiteness structure racialised populations, particularly Indigenous subjects, experiences of (non)belonging and displacement in contemporary settler colonial life.\"—\u003ci\u003eSociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Most of the essays in the volume are on Australian Indigenous issues, but have relevance globally. This book provides many thought-provoking insights that could help bridge divides between scholars of indigeneity and those of whiteness.\"—\u003ci\u003eTribal College Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Moreton-Robinson provides important conceptual tools to think through how we interpret and contest settler sovereignty today and into the future.\"—\u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: White Possession and Indigenous Sovereignty Matters\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Owning Property\u003cbr\u003e1. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a Postcolonizing Society\u003cbr\u003e2. The House That Jack Built: Britishness and White Possession\u003cbr\u003e3. Bodies That Matter on the Beach\u003cbr\u003e4. Writing Off Treaties: Possession in the U.S. Critical Whiteness Literature\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Becoming Propertyless\u003cbr\u003e5. Nullifying Native Title: A Possessive Investment in Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e6. The High Court and the Yorta Yorta Decision\u003cbr\u003e7. Leesa’s Story: White Possession in the Workplace\u003cbr\u003e8. The Legacy of Cook’s Choice\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Being Property\u003cbr\u003e9. Toward a New Research Agenda: Foucault, Whiteness, and Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e10. Writing Off Sovereignty: The Discourse of Security and Patriarchal White Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e11. Imagining the Good Indigenous Citizen: Race War and the Pathology of White Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e12. Virtuous Racial States: White Sovereignty and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003ePublication History\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405974315351,"sku":"9780816692163","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816692163.jpg?v=1730494105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-white-possessive-9780816692163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}