« Indigenous alteriy and ‘Third Person’: Claire Windsor, ‘The Impersonal is Personal: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women through the Lens of Roberto Esposito’s Third Person’, University of Western Ontario, Undergraduate Awards, 18, 2015
On the comparative economics of settler societies: Reto Bertoni, Henry Willebald, ‘Do Natural Energy Endowments Matter? New Zealand and Uruguay in a Comparative Perspective, 1870–1940’, Australian Economic History Review, 2015 »

Contemporary privatisation is dispossession: Rebecca Jane Hall, ‘Divide and Conquer: Privatizing Indigenous Land Ownership as Capital Accumulation’, Studies in Political Economy, 96, 2015

22Nov15

Abstract: In 2012, the Harper administration announced that it would be exploring voluntary legislation to introduce private property into First Nations reserves. Drawing on Marx’s theories of primitive accumulation and ground-rent, this paper argues that privatizing communally held land is an ontological and structural dispossession, serving the dual functions of intensifying existing capital accumulation through the organizing role of private property, and creating a new space of accumulation as land itself becomes “fictitious capital.”


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