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Author Kapila, Kriti

Title Nullius : the anthropology of ownership, sovereignty and the law in India / Kriti Kapila
Published Chicago : Hau Books, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 195 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Property -- India
Property -- Social aspects -- India
Sovereignty -- Social aspects -- India
Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Law / Government.
Property
Property -- Social aspects
Sovereignty -- Moral and ethical aspects
Sovereignty -- Social aspects
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781912808830
1912808838