appropriation

Appropriation may refer to:

• Appropriation (art)
  • Appropriation (music) in reference to the re-use and proliferation of different types of music
• Appropriation (economics) origination of human ownership of previously unowned natural resources such as land
• Appropriation (education) 
• Appropriation (law) as a component of government spending
• Appropriation (sociology) in relation to the spread of knowledge
• Cultural appropriation, the borrowing, or theft, of an element of cultural expression of one group by another
  • Reappropriation, the use with a sense of pride (of a negative word or object) by a member of the offended group
• The personality rights tort of appropriation, one form of invasion of privacy
• Appropriation (By Any Other Name), by The Long Blondes (2005)

Appropriation (lat. appropriatio, von appropriare, „erwerben, (sich) aneignen, zu eigen machen, appropriieren“) bezeichnet die Aneignung sowohl von Sachen, also den Erwerb eines Eigentums, als auch die Aneignung im philosophisch-geisteswissenschaftlichen Sinne.

La dépossession est l'action qui consiste à priver quelqu'un d'un (bien privé, bien public ou bien commun) par un moyen coercitif, illégalement ou injustement.