The notion of “property” inscribes land within systems of value—values based largely in racialized visions of use, “improvement,” and available resources for exploitation. But what other characterizations and relationships to the land are foreclosed by these settler narratives? How might these systems be challenged and transformed in ways that bring forward long-suppressed forms of responsibility and reciprocity with land and its more manifold values (ecological, spiritual), particularly in the face of climate change? This panel asked how narratives of property can be recast in relation to justice and liberation for BIPOC people, and to grapple with the entanglements, responsibilities, and risks brought forward by climate change.

Speakers: Emanuel Admassu, Keller Easterling, David Fortin, and Brittany Utting, with James Graham and Janette Kim, moderators.

Hosted by the Architecture Division lecture series, with UWA and CCA History Theory Experiments. This panel discussion was the third in a series of events called Reclaiming Land: Reclaiming Land 3: Drawing Ownership and Reclaiming Land 1: Decommodifying Property for Racial and Social Equity.