I've posted a surprisingly sparse selection of commentary on gender/sexuality and property. Silvia Federici wrote a book called "Caliban and the Witch" that unpacks in great detail the interwoven stories of the rise of capitalism and the suppression of woman, especially "wtiches" - woman who knew to live off the earth fast enclosing around them.

Sara Berry's article on Asante, Ghana highlights the centrality of propertization to the agenda of privatization (“Tomatoes, Land and Hearsay: Property and History in Asante in the Time of Structural Adjustment.” World Development. 25:8, pp. 1225-1241, 1997).

The problem of the article is framed by what seems like a bewildering turn-around of international lending institutions – first, through SAPs, they pushed for market liberalization, and now they are pushing for firmer state controls and regulations -- in particular getting the state into land enclosures and privatization. Berry contends that both actions are undertaken in order to promote "Democracy," i.e. "agricultural productivity" and "sustainable development," but both strategies of imposed property rights regimes fail to address the real issue: “Calls for privatization continue, despite accumulated evidence that transfers of ownership do not necessarily transform patterns of resource management” (1226).

The idea of Crown Land in a colonial, settler state is problematic to begin with. However, at least it is contestable in this form. Once the land is sold or leased, it makes it that much harder to negotiate for Aboriginal title and rights.

According to Judith McKenzie (Environmental Politics in Canada: Managing the commons into the twenty-first century. Oxford University Press, 2001), the privatization of Crown Land has become more common in Canada since the introduction in the 90s of a neo-liberal agenda.