Writing, Space and Authority: Producing and Critiquing Settler Jurisdiction in Western Australia

Between Freedom and Justice: Popular Protest and Jurisdictional Contestation of Militarized Governance in Indian-Controlled Kashmir

“…Along these lines, empirical studies have considered the ways in which material, institutional, and cultural technologies have produced and extended jurisdictional authority across various contexts of domination and violence, for example, how maps and charters in colonial North America rendered indigenous lands as empty wilderness, ready for habitation and colonization (Tomlins, 2001, 2003, 2010); how Australian common law jurisprudence has struggled to create a meeting place of common law and indigenous law through the designation of native title (Dorsett and McVeigh, 2012a; see also Dorsett, 2007); how jurisdictional determinations have shaped conditions of life in zones of abandonment such as Guantanamo Bay (Motha, 2007); how modern territorial jurisdiction has facilitated the project of colonization in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Seuffert, 2007); and how security and emergency laws have operated as critical mechanisms through which the colonial technology of jurisprudence of emergency has been embedded within the normative structure of the postcolonial state (Hussain, 2003; Samaddar, 2006). 2 The jurisdictional myths that legitimize such processes and practices are asserted through cultural texts ranging from Shakespeare’s dramatic histories (Cormack, 2007; Drakopoulou, 2007), to John Ford’s cinematic westerns (Grantham, 2007), to Stephen Kinnane’s Aboriginal memoir of life under colonial rule in Australia (Dolin, 2017).…”