Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19

Morris, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102854

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“…To police and control the imaginary borders of the nation as a white space, the settler colonial state uses techniques of erasure, extraction and surveillance that create spaces of disappearance (Banivanua Mar, 2016; McQuire, 2019; Mirzoeff, 2021). These spaces include prisons and youth detention centres that overwhelmingly target First Nations people, and immigration detention centres and APODs for racialised non-citizens that become trapped (through enclosure or exclusion) by the border (Loughnan, 2022; Morris, 2023; O’Donnell, 2022). Together, they comprise a ‘carceral archipelago’ (Foucault, 1991) that is embedded in colonial genealogies of racial-spatial control (McKinnon, 2020; Perera and Pugliese, 2018).…”

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“…Australia’s neo-colonial and extractive relationship to Papua New Guinea continues to be heard through the work (Banivanua Mar, 2016), as two of the detained men sent their recordings from APODs in Port Moresby. These carceral adaptations are not seamless, but have the effect of respatialising and repatterning cities, recalling and amplifying pre-existing inequalities and exclusions (Morris, 2023). For instance, just up the road from Kangaroo Point hotel – which at the time was used as an APOD – is Boundary Street, which marked the exclusion zone that kept Aboriginal people out of the city of Brisbane after 4 pm under the Police Towns Act (1839) .…”

Section: Digital Cartographies Of Detention and Proximal Relations In...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The work also emphasised that the racialised violence of colonial bordering practices had not dissipated or contracted with the partial shift towards onshore warehousing and APODs, but had instead dispersed, expanded and ‘come closer’ to the urban environments that many of us inhabit – on unceded and sovereign Indigenous lands (Giannacopoulos and Loughnan, 2019; Keenan, 2020). While limited by its ‘opt-in’ and ‘one-way’ design, where are you today exposed our shared geographies and transformed us into proximal witnesses, without concealing the ways in which mobilities and rights are unequally distributed in settler colonies (Morris, 2023; Puar, 2021; Simpson, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance

Russell

Souza

2023

Environ Plan D

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Following significant social and legal challenges to Australia’s colonial policy of ‘offshoring’ immigration detention, the system has become more mobile and diffuse, expanding through a range of new, ad-hoc, and established detention sites both ‘on’ and ‘offshore’. Refugees, asylum seekers and other non-citizens are frequently transferred and dispersed between these sites, which form ‘spaces of disappearance’. In this article, we draw upon concepts of racial surveillance capitalism and data justice to analyse a work by the Manus Recording Project Collective, titled where are you today, that sought to expose and counter the colonial border’s disappearing effects. The work involved the creation and distribution of audio-recordings from inside detention sites to subscribers. Recordings were distributed via text messages that also plotted individual subscribers in spatiotemporal relation to the detained artists that created them. The Collective thereby appropriated the tools of surveillance capitalism – such as GPS tracking and timestamping – to create dynamic digital cartographies of the mobile-carceral border. Through studying this work, we aim to deepen understandings of colonial bordering practices and highlight possibilities for disrupting the social divisions and exclusions that they reproduce.

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2023

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“… 12. There is a substantial scholarship exploring the implication and management of the COVID-19 pandemic from the lenses of Mbembe’s (2003) necropolitics (Jagannathan and Rai, 2022; Morris, 2023; Ogbogu, 2023; Sandset, 2021). …”

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COVID-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment

Atiles

2023

Critical Sociology

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The US and Puerto Rican governments’ anti-corruption and anti-fraud legislation and policies exacerbated the socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico (PR). This article demonstrates how anti-corruption interventions prevented those in most need from receiving the economic benefits of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program and other unemployment insurance benefits. Analyzing this specific instance of anti-corruption and anti-fraud interventions amid the COVID-19 pandemic allows for a deeper examination of how colonial interventions undermined PR’s capacity to handle the pandemic, exacerbated its socio-economic impact and created an unequal recovery. Thus, the article illustrates the contradictions of anti-corruption as punitive governance and the way in which a specific notion of corruption is reproduced through governmental actions, legal practices, and policies. Altogether, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on how colonial and punitive anti-corruption interventions enhance social exclusion, disproportionately harm racialized communities, and undermine people’s capacity to address period of crisis.

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Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl

Russell

2024

Political Geography

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Necropolitics as accumulation: Enforcement and enclosure in Brisbane during COVID-19

Cited by 3 publications

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Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance

Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance

COVID-19 and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: Anti-Corruption, Fraud Prevention, and Punishment

Prison expansion in the plains grasslands: Coloniality, ecological injustice and carceral sprawl

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