Simone Knewitz

The Politics of Private Property

Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse

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Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Private Property investigates the functions of private property within U.S. American cultural discourse. It mobilizes property as an analytical category and examines how social and political debates from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century have generated competing and contested claims to ownership.

Produktdetails

• Political Theory for Today
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781793623751
• ISBN-10: 1793623759
• Artikelnr.: 61183402

Autorenporträt

By Simone Knewitz

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Agrarian Justice: Land, Labor, and Early Nineteenth-Century
Property Discourse
Chapter 2: "That Is Property Which the Law Declares to Be Property":
Debating Slavery in
Antebellum America
Chapter 3: A Nation of Homeowners: The Transformation of Property in the
Emerging
Consumer Economy
Chapter 4: Challenging the "Possessive Investment in Whiteness": Black
Power and Property
Discourse in the 1960s
Chapter 5: Creating an "Ownership Society"? The Rise of the Property Rights
Movement
Conclusion: Contested Property Claims