Settler Colonialism: A scattered itinerary
This webinar is the fifth in the Australian Centre's 2024 Critical Public Conversations series.
In their talk, Professors Perera & Pugliese offer a scattered itinerary of settler colonialism, its long duration, wide reach and transnational deathscapes, alongside their excavations of adjacent terms.
The Deathscapes Project identifies how the governance apparatuses of the settler state—including its systems of law, criminal justice and the prison-industrial-detention complex—operate to produce death for its racially targeted subjects as a system-outcome of its everyday operations.
PRESENTERS
Professor Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Professor Emerita at Curtin University. She is author/editor of nine books including the monographs Survival Media (2017), Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies (2009) and Reaches of Empire (1992).
Professor Joseph Pugliese is Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. His previous books include Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010), State Violence and the Execution of Law: Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2012) and Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (2020).
They are the editors, most recently, of Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence