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oapen-20.500.12657-541502023-02-01T08:49:16Z Nullius Kapila, Kriti Law Government bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LND Constitutional & administrative law::LNDH Government powers Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated. The book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty. 2022-04-23T05:33:18Z 2022-04-23T05:33:18Z 2022 book 9781912808489 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54150 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf HAU Books HAU Books b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781912808489 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) HAU Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its consequences for our understanding of sovereignty and social relations. Though property rights and ownership are said to be a cornerstone of modern law, in the Indian case they are often a spectral presence. Kapila offers a detailed study of paradigms where proprietary relations have been erased, denied, misappropriated. The book examines three forms of negation, where the Indian state de facto adopted doctrines of terra nullius (in the erasure of indigenous title), res nullius (in acquiring museum objects), and, controversially, corpus nullius (in denying citizens ownership of their bodies under biometrics). The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of questions of property, exchange, dispossession, law, and sovereignty.
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