UCSB Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, SSMS Conference Room 2001 (2nd Floor) Free Event
Free Event

The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture and lunch series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies.  The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond.  The upcoming event will be hosted in the SSMS 2001 conference room in the Global Studies Department on Thursday, January 23rd at 12:30pm. Please see below for the featured talk:

"Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory"

Professor Robert Nichols, Political Science, University of Minnesota

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo settlers generated a qualitatively unique transnational market in landed property. Stretching from the south Pacific to the high Arctic, this system connected Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States into a mini world system. In response to these developments, Indigenous peoples from these far-flung locales began to organize together. A transnational politics of Indigeneity emerged as a result of these interactions, one organized centrally around the defense of the land from settler colonialism and market predations. Drawing upon his recent publication, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020), Robert Nichols examples this dynamic process through the lens of dispossession.

Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is currently visiting scholar in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California, Santa Cruz.
 

For more information about the Colloquium Series, please contact Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Global Studies Colloquium Director:
jnp@global.ucsb.edu

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