Current / Upcoming / Past
To think about distant places, to colonize them, to populate or depopulate them: all this occurs on, about, or because of land. The actual geographical possession of land is what empire in the final analysis is all about. At the moment when a coincidence occurs between real control and power, the idea of what a given place was (could be, might become), and an actual place — at that moment the struggle for empire is launched. This coincidence is the logic both for Westerners taking possession of land and, during decolonization, for resisting natives reclaiming it.
— Edward Said, “Culture and Imperialism” (1993)
In her powerful and timely new book, Brenna Bhandar traces connections among the colonial seizure of land, the racialization of indigenous inhabitants, and the settler colonial hierarchies in what she calls “racial regimes of ownership.” Forged in the colonial period, the insidious connections between property, ownership, citizen-status, and race now permeate both former and current colonies and their metropoles. By tracing contemporary property laws back to their colonial origins, Bhandar argues for their centrality in current anti-racist and de-colonial struggles across the globe. She examines the “shared logics of racial subjectivity and private property ownership that have been central to the development of racial capitalism” in studies ranging across Palestine, Australia, Canada, and South Africa.
Brenna Bhandar is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London. She is co-editor of ‘Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou’ (DUP: 2015, with Jon Goldberg-Hiller) and ‘Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms’ (Darkmatter Journal, 2016, with Davina Bhandar).
Rafeef Ziadah is Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the Middle East at SOAS, University of London. Prior to this she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the SOAS Politics and International Studies department with the ‘Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East’ project. Her research interests include political economy, contentious politics, labour movements and the politics of humanitarianism, with a particular focus on the Middle East.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Independent Study Programme
Call 2023
Until 04.09.2022
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Cinema Palace
28.11.2022
19h30
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Berlin International Film Festival
16.02. – 26.02.2023
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022
07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Willem Oorebeek
Obstakles
17.12.2022 – 19.03.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
17.12 | 17h00 Talk with Willem Oorebeek,
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
17.12 | 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité
is funded by Ministério da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar