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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.
Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets
out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have
shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic,
social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how
the intense debates on the 2001 terrorist attacks and their
aftermaths have come to shape our present moment and frame what
lies ahead. At the same time, this collection acknowledges that the
label "9/11" has often bracketed cultural complexities we have only
begun to understand. In Beyond 9/11, contributors from the fields
of American studies, political science, economics, history,
theology, and the arts reappraise the cultural climate and the
global impact of the United States in the second decade of the
twenty-first century.
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