Biopolitics, geopolitics, life : settler states and indigenous presence / René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dietrich, René, 1978- editor.

Knopf, Kerstin, editor.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Colonization.

Indigenous peoples.

Settler colonialism.

Decolonization.

Biopolitics.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of settler colonial states across the globe, from the Americas and Hawai'i to Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on literary and cultural studies, social sciences, political theory, visual culture, and film studies, they show how biopolitics and geopolitics produce norms of social life and land use that delegitimize and target Indigenous bodies, lives, lands, and political formations. Among other topics, the contributors explore the representations of sexual violence against Native women in literature, Indigenous critiques of the carceral state in North America, Indigenous Elders' refusal of dominant formulations of aging, the governance of Indigenous peoples in Guyana, the displacement of Guaraní in Brazil, and the 2016 rule to formally acknowledge a government-to-government relationship between the US federal government and the Native Hawaiian community. Throughout, the contributors contend that Indigenous life and practices cannot be contained and defined by the racialization and dispossession of settler colonialism, thereby pointing to the transformative potential of an Indigenous-centered decolonization. Contributors René Dietrich, Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Mishuana Goeman, Alyosha Goldstein, Sandy Grande, Michael R. Griffiths, Shona N. Jackson, Kerstin Knopf, Sabine N. Meyer, Robert Nichols, Mark Rifkin, David Uahikeaikaleiʻohu Maile"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "You Tell Me Your Stories, and I Will Tell You Mine": Witnessing and Combating Native Women's Extirpation in American Indian Literature / Mishuana Goeman

2. The Biopolitics of Aging: Indigenous Elders as Elsewhere / Sandy Grande

3. The Colonialism of Incarceration / Robert Nichols

4. Are Hawaiians Indians? / David Uahikeaikalei'ohu Maile

5. Postcolonial Biopolitics and the Hieroglyphs of Democracy / Shona N. Jackson

6. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation / Mark Rifkin

7. "I Was Nothing but a Bare Skeleton Walking the Path": Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Life in Diane Glancy's Pushing the Bear / Sabine N. Meyer

8. Unseen Wonder: Decolonizing Magical Realism in Kim Scott's Benang and Wici Ihimaera's "Maata" / Michael R. Griffiths

9. Agency and Art: Survivance with Camera and Crayon / Jacqueline Fear-Segal

10. Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers (Terra Vermelha) / Kerstin Knopf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Biopolitics, geopolitics, life.

ISBN:

9781478019763

147801976X

9781478017080

1478017082

OCLC:

1330195467

Publisher Number:

99993618038