This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.

It is organized around three themes:

• the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and practically connected to relations of power
• the 'objects' of property in changing contexts of materialism
• challenges to the Western idea of property posed by colonial and post-colonial contexts, such as the disempowerment through property of...