Really loved this piece. My brother and I spent the holidays talking about the absence of research and analysis on the role of land severalty laws in dismantling Indigenous formations of human-land relations and their subsequent political economies. Curious if you have ever seen Rose Stremlau's or Mike Witgen's work on allotment. Both are Indigenous scholars who have written about that process and period from the perspective of the Indigenous communities facing them. They add a lot of useful analysis and history on how Indigenous land tenure systems represented long standing threats and counters to privatization and accumulation. Would be interested to see how you might handle your future pieces on the development of the financial concept of "land," not just as the conquest of the market, but also in its conflict with other concepts of "land" that represented wholly different formations of how people relate to each other and the environment.
Really loved this piece. My brother and I spent the holidays talking about the absence of research and analysis on the role of land severalty laws in dismantling Indigenous formations of human-land relations and their subsequent political economies. Curious if you have ever seen Rose Stremlau's or Mike Witgen's work on allotment. Both are Indigenous scholars who have written about that process and period from the perspective of the Indigenous communities facing them. They add a lot of useful analysis and history on how Indigenous land tenure systems represented long standing threats and counters to privatization and accumulation. Would be interested to see how you might handle your future pieces on the development of the financial concept of "land," not just as the conquest of the market, but also in its conflict with other concepts of "land" that represented wholly different formations of how people relate to each other and the environment.