Racial Regimes of Ownership: Property, Possession, and Settler Colonisation
Brenna Bhandar, Senior Lecturer, University of London
Brenna Bhandar is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London. She is author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (DUP: 2018) and co-editor of Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (DUP: 2015). Brenna has published widely in the areas of critical legal theory, sovereignty and indigenous rights, contemporary disputes over ownership and property rights, amongst other themes. Brenna takes a fundamentally transdisciplinary approach to her research, and draws upon critical race and feminist theory, critical indigenous studies scholarship, postcolonial theory, political philosophy and legal history. Her current project (with Rafeef Ziadah) explores the formation of anti-racist, feminist traditions on the left from the 1960s onwards through a series of interviews with leading activist-scholars. Prior to entering academia, Brenna was a member of the Bar of British Columbia after clerking at the BC Court of Appeal and articling with a leading human rights firm.