Unstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.

Introduction: Paper Claims

1 The Invention of British Columbia

2 Calder, Churn, and Destabilization: 1973-97

3 Unsettled in the Wake of Delgamuukw

4 The Politics of Refusal and the End of the Political Path, 2004-14

5 Property, Territory, Sovereignty, and Citizenship

Conclusion: Reconciliation and Reimagining British Columbia

References; Index

Patricia Burke Wood is a professor of geography at York University. David A. Rossiter is a professor of geography at Western Washington University. They have co-authored several articles on the politics of Aboriginal title in the Canadian Geographer, Society and Natural Resources, and the Supreme Court Law Review.