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Land, land banks and land back: Accounting, social reproduction and Indigenous resurgence

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posted on 2023-05-21, 04:19 authored by Scobie, M, Glenn FinauGlenn Finau, Hallenbeck, J
This paper situates Indigenous social reproduction as a duality; as both a site of primitive accumulation and as a critical, resurgent, land-based practice. Drawing on three distinct cases from British Columbia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and Bua, Fiji, we illustrate how accounting techniques can be a key mechanism with which Indigenous modes of life are brought to the market and are often foundational to the establishment of markets. We argue that accounting practices operate at the vanguard of primitive accumulation by extracting once invaluable outsides (e.g. Indigenous land and bodies) and rendering these either valuable or valueless for the social reproduction of settler society. The commodification of Indigenous social reproduction sustains the conditions that enable capitalism to flourish through primitive accumulation. However, we privilege Indigenous agency, resistance and resurgence in our analysis to illustrate that these techniques of commodification through accounting are not inevitable. They are resisted or wielded towards Indigenous alternatives at every point.

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Publication title

Environment and Planning A

Pagination

1-18

ISSN

0308-518X

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Pion Ltd

Place of publication

207 Brondesbury Park, London, England, Nw2 5Jn

Rights statement

Copyright 2021 the authors

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Other culture and society not elsewhere classified; Other environmental management not elsewhere classified

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