Settler indigeneity and the eradication of the non‐native: self‐determination and biosecurity in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Blair, James J. A.

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“…Clear overlaps among temporality, mobility, and sovereignty emerge in this work on boundaries and ambivalence, and we can understand each of these themes as addressing how people navigate relations of power (especially, but not exclusively, state and settler‐colonial power). James Blair's () essay on settler indigeneity in the Falkland Islands exemplifies these overlaps. He shows how categories of nativeness and invasion, especially as these are applied to animals and plants, have worked as technologies of settler‐colonialism‐cum‐settler‐indigeneity for Falkland Islands’ inhabitants from its settlement by British colonists in 1833 to the present.…”

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Temporality Mobility and Sovereigntymentioning

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…In the South Atlantic, the intensified commercial shift toward marine resources has pitted Argentinaa stagnating export economy, seeking to regain its modern promise as the "Europe of Latin America"against a wealthy assemblage of predominantly white British settlers, pursuing a different utopian island dream of the "not yet" (Gillis 2004, 65). As a settler colony with no historical evidence of a precolonial Indigenous population, the Falklands/Malvinas is an instructive site for understanding shifting scales of imperial sovereignty through science (Stoler 2006;Blair 2017). This article's examination of clashing South Atlantic universals thus has broad implications for how Latin American STS scholars may rethink the contemporary realignment of center-periphery relations in the Southern Cone and the Atlantic World (Vessuri 1983;Kreimer 2007; De Greiff 2012; Rodriguez-Medina 2013).…”

Section: Analytical Perspectives: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nortmentioning

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South Atlantic universals: science, sovereignty and self-determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Blair

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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Decades after a violent war that re-established British control over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas in Spanish), commercial fishing regimes and offshore oil discoveries have led Argentina and the United Kingdom to reassert their respective sovereignty claims through scientific advances. Scholarly literature on the South Atlantic archipelago focuses almost exclusively on the 1982 military conflict. However, the remote island chain has been a British imperial frontier of scientific knowledge production since Darwin's 1833 visit aboard the Beagle, and overlapping maritime claims have now made the colonial holdout a key node for the contemporary use of science to spatialize and materialize desirable geopolitical visions of the future. Marine ecologists and geographers curate data on the South Atlantic to represent contrasting imaginaries: (1) Argentina's oceanic assertion of territorial integrity through the government's Pampa Azul campaign on the one hand; and (2) British channeling of the Islanders' self-determination claim through the Falklandsbased South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) on the other. Building on Trouillot, I argue that through these clashing imaginaries, sovereignty, self-determination and particular scientific practices become mobilized as "South Atlantic universals," prescribed worldviews that project transhistorical power from the global periphery (Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2003. Global Transformations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Universais do Atlântico Sul: ciência, soberania e autodeterminação nas Ilhas Falkland (Malvinas) RESUMO Décadas depois de uma guerra violenta que restabeleceu o controle britânico sobre as Ilhas Falkland (Malvinas em espanhol), regimes de pesca comercial e descobertas de petróleo fizeram a Argentina e o Reino Unido reafirmarem suas respectivas reivindicações de soberania por meio de avanços científicos. A literatura acadêmica sobre o arquipélago do Atlântico Sul foca quase exclusivamente no conflito militar de 1982. Entretanto, a remota cadeia de ilhas tem sido uma fronteira imperial britânica de produção de conhecimento científico desde a visita de Darwin a bordo do Beagle em 1833, e alegações marítimas sobrepostas tornaram mais recentemente esse

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“…The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. (Blair, 2017). 4.…”

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Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction and the unruliness of nature in Palestine

Salih

Corry

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Recent ‘Anthropocene’ commentaries have argued that as humans have become decisively entangled in natural systems, they collectively became a geological species-agent potentially becoming aware of its own place in the deep history of planetary time. Through this, the argument goes, a pre-political collective consciousness could emerge, paving the way for a progressive construction of a common world, beyond particularistic justice-claims. The reverse case is made in scholarship of settler colonialism: the Anthropocene is rooted in histories of settler colonial violence and is deeply tied up with the dispossession and ‘extinction’ of Indigenous life-worlds. In this article, we foreground nature–human entanglement as crucial for understanding the operations but also the instability of settler colonialism in Palestine. We suggest that fractures and openings become legible when paying attention to the ‘afterlife’ of nature that was erased due to its enmeshment with Indigenous people. We provide a historical and ethnographic account of past and emerging entanglements between Palestinians refugees and their nature, ultimately arguing that indigeneity is recalcitrant to obliteration. With that in mind, we return to the Anthropocene’s focus on universal human extinction and ethical consciousness by critically engaging with it from the standpoint of colonised and displaced Indigenous populations, like the Palestinian refugees. We conclude by arguing that only when the profoundly unequal access to Life entrenched in settler colonialism is foregrounded and addressed, does a real possibility of recognising any common, global vulnerability that the species faces emerge.

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Settler indigeneity and the eradication of the non‐native: self‐determination and biosecurity in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

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Cited by 13 publications

References 75 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

South Atlantic universals: science, sovereignty and self-determination in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

Displacing the Anthropocene: Colonisation, extinction and the unruliness of nature in Palestine

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