Settler common sense

Rifkin, Mark

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2013.810702

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“…Resonating with indigenous studies scholarship on “settler moves to innocence” (Tuck & Yang, , p. 10), Daigle () describes how the truth and reconciliation process in Canadian universities offers white settler society an opportunity to (re)claim innocence through cathartic spectacle while preserving the violent relations of settler colonialism. Settlers take for granted the property relations and legal structures of dispossession that underpin settler colonialism through the logics of “settler common sense” (Rifkin, ; Hughes, , pp. 99–100).…”

Section: Consciousnessmentioning

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: Consciousnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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“…Concerns about water are also central to claims made by agriculturalists proximate to the mine site. Graziers speak from a position fundamentally different from that held by the Wangan and Jagalingou people, especially as agriculture is a key settler-colonial tool of displacement and dispossession of Indigenous owners (Mayes, 2018;Rifkin, 2013). Nevertheless, in relation to the mine both Indigenous land management and Westernstyle farming are thrown together to the extent they are both cast as invisible and economically dispensable.…”

Section: Pro-mine Coalition Argumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contesting coal and climate change using scale: emergent topologies in the Adani mine controversy

Jolley

Rickards

2019

Geographical Research

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Key insightsPro-mine and anti-mine coalitions are contesting the Adani mine using arguments situated at different spatial scales. The anti-mine coalition is more adept at negotiating and contesting different scalar relations. The research highlights the need to attend to how scalar tactics are used in resource extraction controversies. AbstractThe Adani mine controversy is a significant new space of contestation in conflicts over coal mining and climate change in Australia. Proposed as one of the largest new coal mines in the world, the Adani (or "Carmichael") mine has become a flashpoint between two broad coalitions-the pro-mine coalition, consisting of governments, elements of the media, and mining interests, and the anti-mine coalition, consisting of community groups, environmental non-government organisations, activists, Indigenous communities, and farmers. Based on thematic analysis of news media articles and interviews with environmental actors in the Adani mine controversy, this article demonstrates how each coalition employs discursive scale frames and counter-scale frames to represent and contest the controversy. We find that the pro-mine coalition remains situated within a topographical spatiality, with a backwards oriented temporality, that obscures emergent topologies from their view. In contrast, while retaining capacity for operating within traditional scalar topographies, the anti-mine coalition is more adept at negotiating topologies that increasingly define our social worlds. It is oriented towards a deep future horizon in which the Adani mine controversy represents an opportunity to reshape existing social and political orders. The sorts of scalar tactics documented here are likely at work in other resource extraction controversies, highlighting the need to attend to how scale may be being used to obscure irrationalities and injustices in extraction projects, and the potential for counter-scale frames to help destabilise fossil fuel regimes.

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“…In fact, fee simple, the most common form of freehold private property ownership today is directly traceable to an original grant of land from the crown through the Royal Proclamation of 1763, a set of colonial guidelines that issued land back to the crown that works in concert with the Doctrine of Discovery in as far as they both strived for legitimacy for otherwise uncertain and illegitimate claims to jurisdiction in English occupied North America (see Blomley ). These guide‐lines‐cum‐legal frameworks set the standard for private property relations today, and were central in legitimating occupation and dispossession in North America (Blomley ; Harris ; Pasternak , ; Rifkin ). To put it bluntly: ”Property starts where Indianness stops” (Wolfe :15).…”

Section: Where Indianness Stopsmentioning

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Toxic Encounters, Settler Logics of Elimination, and the Future of a Continent

Nunn

2018

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This paper engages the relationship between toxic geographies and settler colonialism. By bringing to light larger structures and histories that underpin the settler colonial project, I examine a series of toxic encounters and consider the racialised hegemonic narratives that enable the production toxicity. Among these is a methylmercury contamination in Northern Ontario, just upstream from Grassy Narrows First Nation, and a cluster of toxic conversations that bled through social media in the wake of the murder of Colten Boushie, a 22‐year‐old Cree man in Saskatchewan, Canada. I argue that examining the normative ideologies, settler narratives, and socio‐political structures that are involved in the production of toxicity provides valuable insight into the diffuse and relational colonial logics that define the lives that are privileged as the standard, and those that fall outside the regulatory category of the Human, and as a result, are subject to elimination.

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Settler common sense

Cited by 106 publications

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Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Contesting coal and climate change using scale: emergent topologies in the Adani mine controversy

Toxic Encounters, Settler Logics of Elimination, and the Future of a Continent

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