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The Politics of Private Property - Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Private Property - Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse (Hardcover)
Series: Political Theory for Today
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Located at the intersections of law and culture, The Politics of
Private Property provides a fresh perspective on the functions of
private property within U.S. cultural discourse by establishing a
long historical arch from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first
century. The study challenges the assumption of an unquestioned
cultural consensus in the United States on the subject of
individual property rights, instead mobilizing property as an
analytical category to examine how social and political debates
generate competing and contested claims to ownership. The property
narratives arising out of political conflicts, the book suggests,
serve to naturalize the unequal social and economic structures and
legitimize the hegemonic order, which however remains to be
shifting and subject to challenges. Analyzing the property
narratives at the heart of the U.S. American self-conception, The
Politics of Private Property addresses the gap between the ideal of
the U.S. as a universal middle-class society, characterized by a
wide diffusion of property ownership, and the actual social reality
which is defined by unequal dissemination of wealth and race-based
structures of exclusion.
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