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Book Review: Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico

In Properties of Violence, David Correia explores the historical configuration of property as an arena of social conflict in the Tierra Amarilla land grant in Northern New Mexico. Competing meanings, various political constructions, and coercive ways of enforcement of property relations gave rise to a history of violent conflicts between different actors, each claiming their possession in their own way. Since its establishment in the early nineteenth century, the Tierra Amarilla land grant was a part of a series of colonial settlements created by the dispossession of Indian nations. These mechanisms of dispossession gave way to the settlement of landless sheepherders and agriculturalists under a common property regime. Despite the violence of dispossession, these new settlers found direct resistance from the various Indigenous groups who inhabited and owned these lands. The end of the U.S.-Mexican war in 1848 aggravated these conflicts by signaling the beginning of another period of intense struggle over land grant property. The Tierra Amarilla land grant was a source of valuable natural resources that called the attention of foreign investors and speculators who saw private property as a precondition for the exploitation and occupation of the land grant. In this way, the primacy of private property became a threat to common property, which prompted land grant settlers to develop diverse strategies to fight against the privatization of these common lands.