Property, Power, Politics: An Interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols

This article comprises an interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols by Andreas Folkers and Alain Pottage. It seeks to identify the conjuncture that has prompted the contemporary resurgence of questions of property in social theory. It takes critical work on the ‘colonial lives of property’ (Bhandar), neoliberalism (Brown), and colonial dispossession (Nichols) as a vantage point from which to identify the potentials and challenges of an ecological critique of property. The current planetary formation of property cannot be understood without taking into account the ways capitalism and colonialism have insinuated themselves into the material fabric of the Earth.