Dietrich / Rene Dietrich / Knopf Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life

Settler States and Indigenous Presence
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2434-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

The contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of settler colonial states across the globe, contending that Indigenous life and practices cannot be contained and defined by the racialization and dispossession of settler colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dietrich, René

Rene Dietrich, Dietrich

Knopf, Kerstin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Alyosha Goldstein vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities / René Dietrich 1
1. “You Tell Me Your Stories, and I Will Tell You Mine”: Witnessing and Combating Native Women’s Extirpation in American Indian Literature / Mishuana Goeman 45
2. The Biopolitics of Aging: Indigenous Elders as Elsewhere / Sandy Grande 67
3. The Colonialism of Incarceration / Robert Nichols 85
4. Are Hawaiians Indians? / David Uahikeakalei‘ohu Maile 107
5. Postcolonial Biopolitics and the Hieroglyphs of Democracy / Shona N.Jackson 131
6. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation / Mark Rifkin 159
7. “I Was Nothing but a Bare Skeleton Walking the Path”: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Life in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear / Sabine N. Meyer 177
8. Unseen Wonder: Decolonizing Magical Realism in Kim Scott’s Benang and Witi Ihimaera’s “Maata” / Michael R. Griffiths 197
9. Agency and Art: Survivance with Camera and Crayon / Jacqueline Fear-Segal 219
10. Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers (Terra Vermelha) / Kerstin Knopf 245
Contributors 273
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

René Dietrich is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and author of Revising and Remembering (after) the End: American Post-Apocalyptic Poetry Since 1945 from Ginsberg to Forché.

Kerstin Knopf is Professor of North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and author of Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America.