Robert Nichols
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Robert Nichols is a Canadian political philosopher and McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Minnesota.[1] He is best known for extending Marxism and Critical Theory to analyze settler colonialism and Indigenous politics.
Education[edit]
Nichols received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2009, where he was a Trudeau Scholar supervised by James Tully. He then spent two years as a Humboldt Scholar, studying under Rahel Jaeggi at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in New York, and visiting faculty at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[2]
Work[edit]
Nichols most important concepts are dispossession and recursion. In his 2020 book, Theft is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory, Nichols argues that "dispossession has come to name a unique recursive process whereby systematic theft is the mechanism by which property relations are generated".[3] He characterizes this as a form of "recursion", explaining:
"Recursion is not... simple tautology. Rather than a completely closed circuit, in which one part of a procedure refers directly back to its starting point, recursive procedures loop back upon themselves in a “boot-strapping” manner such that each iteration is not only different from the last but builds upon or augments its original postulate. Recursion therefore combines self-reference with positive feedback effects. (If it has a geometric form, it is the helix, not the circle.)"[4]
Nichols has also extended Indigenous critical theory to the study of prisons. In his 2014 article, "The Colonialism of Incarceration", Nichols argues that Indigenous peoples make unique contributions to carceral studies, since they raise concerns with the role of prisons in settler state control over territory.[5]
In 2018, he was a featured speaker at the Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Arts.[6]
Publications & Lectures[edit]
- Nichols, Robert. Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)
- Nichols, Robert. The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault and the politics of historical ontology (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014)
- Nichols, Robert. "The Colonialism of Incarceration," Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2014): 435-455
- Nichols, Robert and Jakeet Singh, eds., Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully (NY: Routledge, 2014)
- Lecture to the University of Alberta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0wV1s3cwVQ
- Lecture to the University of Toronto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGCojpUoA0
- Podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/robert-nichols-theft-is-property-dispossession-and-critical-theory-duke-up-2019
References[edit]
- ↑ "McKnight Land-Grant Professorship | Scholars Walk". scholarswalk.umn.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ↑ Sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (2018-04-12). "Nichols". EHESS. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ↑ Nichols, Robert. "Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory". Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Nichols, Robert (2014). "The Colonialism of Incarceration". Radical Philosophy Review. 17 (2): 435–455. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201491622 – via https://www.pdcnet.org/radphilrev/content/radphilrev_2014_0017_0002_0435_0455.
- ↑ Contemporary, SAVVY (2019-11-23), Hostipitality at SAVVY Contemporary 2018, retrieved 2021-11-13
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