Introduction: Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America

LaFleur, Greta; Schuller, Kyla

doi:10.1353/aq.2019.0046

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“…Though some geographers continue to challenge aspects of it (e.g., Amir, ), the settler colonial framework is becoming increasingly present in geographical thinking on biopolitics and debates on biopolitics more broadly (LaFleur & Schuller, ; Morgensen, ). These discussions have begun to interrogate how Foucault's conception of biopolitics is responsible for “whitewashing” the coloniality and raciality of modern violence and power (Howell & Richter‐Montpetit, ).…”

Section: Population Management/biopoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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Section: Population Management/biopoliticsmentioning

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies

Fackler

Schultermandl

2022

Atlantic Studies

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Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald

Castronovo¹

2022

American Literary History

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By looking at colonization at white responses to Black population increase in the US, this essay argues that exile and other biopolitical mechanisms undo the logic of security by showing how the search for safety itself generates and amplifies insecurity. Framed against contemporary meditations on exile, the essay examines how whites presented the deportation of US Blacks to Liberia as a solution to a national security crisis. In response, Black activists and writers such as James Forten and Russell Parrott demonstrated how white concerns created insecurity among the US Black population. To offset the vulnerability of exile that other colonizationists mandated for Black people, the use of racial arithmetic in Freedom’s Journal, the first African American newspaper, and by David Walker shows that security for Blacks can be achieved, at least rhetorically, by mobilizing biopower and exploiting arithmetical ratios of Blacks to whites. In a twist, however, the editor of Freedom’s Journal, John Russwurm, emigrated to West Africa to publish the Liberia Herald whose columns reveal how in the exile’s safe haven racial differences upheld by the US continued to have meaning. In exile, security and insecurity remained twined about each other in cycles of violence. Extermination is population security at its most absolute. . . . if the problem of security is the population’s ceaseless potential for being born, reproducing, and dying, then, exile and colonization serve as technologies for radically altering the polity in the name of national interest.

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Introduction: Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies

Security, Exile, Population: Colonization from David Walker to the Liberia Herald

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