The Politics of Private Property: Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse (Political Theory for Today)

Knewitz, Simone

ISBN 10: 1793623759 / ISBN 13: 9781793623751

Editore: Lexington Books, 2021

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Codice articolo M01793623759-G

Riassunto:

Located at the intersections of law and culture, The Politics of Private Propertyprovides 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.

Informazioni sull?autore: Simone Knewitz is Senior Lecturer of North American Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany.

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Titolo: The Politics of Private Property: Contested ...
Casa editrice: Lexington Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: good