A J Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 596170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A J Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3577-5079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Carcerality and the elimination of Indigenous people in Canada
Drawing from the logic of carcerality, and refined through theories of settler colonialism, I argue in this paper the following. First, carcerality is not just a tactic of settler colonization in Canada for bodily controlling populations, but a key feature of settler colonial claims to land and territory; imposing carceral spaces on Indigenous people is a fundamental necessity for the expectations and ambitions of settler colonization, and as set…
Unstable Properties
Hero Narratives in Settler Colonial Contexts
Geographies of collective responsibility
This paper asks how can we as geographers, occupying positions of relative privilege but also beholden to institutions entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing colonization, find and embody our responsibilities to Indigenous people and nations and contribute to decolonization within and beyond the academy? We begin by reflecting on Doreen Massey’s (2004) theorization of geographies of responsibility and critiques of it in the intervenin…
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability
Environmental sustainability and economic challenges are requiring significant change in the agricultural sector, and this is driving an increased focus on farmer and farm business resilience. Participatory extension programmes (PEPs) are a well-known approach for supporting farmer change. The objective of this article is to explore how a PEP based on peer-to-peer learning can support farmers in increasing resilience. Our study examines the inter…
Revolutionary Aspirations? Social Movements and Settler Colonial Complicity
Making and Breaking Settler Space
Doings with the land and sea
Indigenous and decolonising geographies should be unsettling and challenging to the ontological foundations of the geographical discipline. Yet despite many scholars recognising and arguing for the need for these perspectives, Indigeneity remains marginal and Indigenous knowledge has been denied academic legitimacy within geography. Using 'doings' as an active, emergent, and evolving praxis, this paper examines how we can do Indigenous and settle…
Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism
This article considers the influence of burials and memorials to colonial soldiers from an earlier era on contemporary social and cultural landscapes in Canada. Through the example of a landscape centered on Smith's Knoll, a burial ground for war dead from the British-American War of 1812, it explores the process of necro-settlement: the strengthening of settler colonial claims to land based on the development of complex, meaning-laden landscapes…
No walls, no borders
On the eastern end of the Mediterranean, an apartheid state builds a wall, dividing families, destroying orchards, carving up a land scarred by decades and centuries of conflict. To the west, acros
The third space of sovereignty
Notes1. Taiaiake Alfred, ‘Idle No More and Indigenous Nationhood’, Taiaiake.net [blog post] January 27, 2013, online at http://taiaiake.net/2013/01/27/idle-no-more-indigenous-nationhood
Nomadic and indigenous spaces
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions is wide-ranging, comprised of both theoretical studies and the results of intense fieldwork spanning a wide range of locales – though mostl
The transit of empire
Patrick Wolfe's observation that the drive to eliminate Indigenous peoples is definitive more so of settler colonialism than other forms of colonialism has not escaped challenge. How are we to acco
A Direct Act of Resurgence, a Direct Act of Sovereignty’
In the winter of 2012, the Canadian political scene was shaken by the emergence of ‘Idle No More', a collection of protests directed by and largely comprised of Indigenous peoples. Originally, a response to a variety of legislation that was being passed through the Canadian government at the time, Idle No More spread across the country and around the world. In this paper, I argue that, drawing from Indigenous nationhood movements that extend back…
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
The late nineteenth century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what i…
Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies
Indigenous activists and anarchist Settler people are articulating common ground in opposition to imperialism and colonialism. However, many anarchists have faced difficulties in Indigenous solidarity work through unintentional (often unwitting) transgressions and appropriations. Through the introduction of settler colonialism as a complicating power dynamic, we observe that anarchists bring unconscious spatial perceptions into their solidarity w…
Already Occupied
Indigenous struggles in Canada and the USA—the northern bloc of settler colonialism—have long been characterized by tactical occupations. It is often assumed that Indigenous peoples' concerns are congruent with those of ‘the 99%’: broad-based opposition to economic and political marginalization, strong sub-currents of environmentalism and direct democracy, and antipathy towards state violence. Indigenous people and groups have engaged with Occupy…
Locating Settler Colonialism
Locating Settler Colonialism Adam J. Barker Geographies of Empire: European empires and colonies c.1880-1960. By Robin A. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on race, place and identity. Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. Eastbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada. By Paul…
Resistance, Space and Political Identities
The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism
The War against Russia, 1854-1856
The Civilizing Mission
Suez
The March on Delhi
The Civil War in America
Journal Article The Civil War in America. By Alan Barker. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. x + 182 pp. Notes, maps, reading list, and index. $2.95.) Get access William B. Hesseltine William B. Hesseltine University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 48, Issue 4, March 1962, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893165 Published: 01 M…
Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies
Indigenous activists and anarchist Settler people are articulating common ground in opposition to imperialism and colonialism. However, many anarchists have faced difficulties in Indigenous solidarity work through unintentional (often unwitting) transgressions and appropriations. Through the introduction of settler colonialism as a complicating power dynamic, we observe that anarchists bring unconscious spatial perceptions into their solidarity w…
Doings with the land and sea
Indigenous and decolonising geographies should be unsettling and challenging to the ontological foundations of the geographical discipline. Yet despite many scholars recognising and arguing for the need for these perspectives, Indigeneity remains marginal and Indigenous knowledge has been denied academic legitimacy within geography. Using 'doings' as an active, emergent, and evolving praxis, this paper examines how we can do Indigenous and settle…
The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
The late nineteenth century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what i…
A Direct Act of Resurgence, a Direct Act of Sovereignty’
In the winter of 2012, the Canadian political scene was shaken by the emergence of ‘Idle No More', a collection of protests directed by and largely comprised of Indigenous peoples. Originally, a response to a variety of legislation that was being passed through the Canadian government at the time, Idle No More spread across the country and around the world. In this paper, I argue that, drawing from Indigenous nationhood movements that extend back…
Already Occupied
Indigenous struggles in Canada and the USA—the northern bloc of settler colonialism—have long been characterized by tactical occupations. It is often assumed that Indigenous peoples' concerns are congruent with those of ‘the 99%’: broad-based opposition to economic and political marginalization, strong sub-currents of environmentalism and direct democracy, and antipathy towards state violence. Indigenous people and groups have engaged with Occupy…
Locating Settler Colonialism
Locating Settler Colonialism Adam J. Barker Geographies of Empire: European empires and colonies c.1880-1960. By Robin A. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on race, place and identity. Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. Eastbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada. By Paul…
Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism
This article considers the influence of burials and memorials to colonial soldiers from an earlier era on contemporary social and cultural landscapes in Canada. Through the example of a landscape centered on Smith's Knoll, a burial ground for war dead from the British-American War of 1812, it explores the process of necro-settlement: the strengthening of settler colonial claims to land based on the development of complex, meaning-laden landscapes…
Nomadic and indigenous spaces
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions is wide-ranging, comprised of both theoretical studies and the results of intense fieldwork spanning a wide range of locales – though mostl
Making and Breaking Settler Space
Geographies of collective responsibility
This paper asks how can we as geographers, occupying positions of relative privilege but also beholden to institutions entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing colonization, find and embody our responsibilities to Indigenous people and nations and contribute to decolonization within and beyond the academy? We begin by reflecting on Doreen Massey’s (2004) theorization of geographies of responsibility and critiques of it in the intervenin…
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability
Environmental sustainability and economic challenges are requiring significant change in the agricultural sector, and this is driving an increased focus on farmer and farm business resilience. Participatory extension programmes (PEPs) are a well-known approach for supporting farmer change. The objective of this article is to explore how a PEP based on peer-to-peer learning can support farmers in increasing resilience. Our study examines the inter…
The Civil War in America
Journal Article The Civil War in America. By Alan Barker. (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. x + 182 pp. Notes, maps, reading list, and index. $2.95.) Get access William B. Hesseltine William B. Hesseltine University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 48, Issue 4, March 1962, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893165 Published: 01 M…
The March on Delhi
Suez
The Civilizing Mission
The War against Russia, 1854-1856
The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism
Resistance, Space and Political Identities
Reanimating Anarchist Geographies
The late nineteenth century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what i…
Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies
Indigenous activists and anarchist Settler people are articulating common ground in opposition to imperialism and colonialism. However, many anarchists have faced difficulties in Indigenous solidarity work through unintentional (often unwitting) transgressions and appropriations. Through the introduction of settler colonialism as a complicating power dynamic, we observe that anarchists bring unconscious spatial perceptions into their solidarity w…
Already Occupied
Indigenous struggles in Canada and the USA—the northern bloc of settler colonialism—have long been characterized by tactical occupations. It is often assumed that Indigenous peoples' concerns are congruent with those of ‘the 99%’: broad-based opposition to economic and political marginalization, strong sub-currents of environmentalism and direct democracy, and antipathy towards state violence. Indigenous people and groups have engaged with Occupy…
Locating Settler Colonialism
Locating Settler Colonialism Adam J. Barker Geographies of Empire: European empires and colonies c.1880-1960. By Robin A. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on race, place and identity. Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. Eastbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada. By Paul…
A Direct Act of Resurgence, a Direct Act of Sovereignty’
In the winter of 2012, the Canadian political scene was shaken by the emergence of ‘Idle No More', a collection of protests directed by and largely comprised of Indigenous peoples. Originally, a response to a variety of legislation that was being passed through the Canadian government at the time, Idle No More spread across the country and around the world. In this paper, I argue that, drawing from Indigenous nationhood movements that extend back…
The third space of sovereignty
Notes1. Taiaiake Alfred, ‘Idle No More and Indigenous Nationhood’, Taiaiake.net [blog post] January 27, 2013, online at http://taiaiake.net/2013/01/27/idle-no-more-indigenous-nationhood
Nomadic and indigenous spaces
Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces: Productions and Cognitions is wide-ranging, comprised of both theoretical studies and the results of intense fieldwork spanning a wide range of locales – though mostl
The transit of empire
Patrick Wolfe's observation that the drive to eliminate Indigenous peoples is definitive more so of settler colonialism than other forms of colonialism has not escaped challenge. How are we to acco
No walls, no borders
On the eastern end of the Mediterranean, an apartheid state builds a wall, dividing families, destroying orchards, carving up a land scarred by decades and centuries of conflict. To the west, acros
Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism
This article considers the influence of burials and memorials to colonial soldiers from an earlier era on contemporary social and cultural landscapes in Canada. Through the example of a landscape centered on Smith's Knoll, a burial ground for war dead from the British-American War of 1812, it explores the process of necro-settlement: the strengthening of settler colonial claims to land based on the development of complex, meaning-laden landscapes…
Doings with the land and sea
Indigenous and decolonising geographies should be unsettling and challenging to the ontological foundations of the geographical discipline. Yet despite many scholars recognising and arguing for the need for these perspectives, Indigeneity remains marginal and Indigenous knowledge has been denied academic legitimacy within geography. Using 'doings' as an active, emergent, and evolving praxis, this paper examines how we can do Indigenous and settle…
Revolutionary Aspirations? Social Movements and Settler Colonial Complicity
Making and Breaking Settler Space
Hero Narratives in Settler Colonial Contexts
Geographies of collective responsibility
This paper asks how can we as geographers, occupying positions of relative privilege but also beholden to institutions entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing colonization, find and embody our responsibilities to Indigenous people and nations and contribute to decolonization within and beyond the academy? We begin by reflecting on Doreen Massey’s (2004) theorization of geographies of responsibility and critiques of it in the intervenin…
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability
Environmental sustainability and economic challenges are requiring significant change in the agricultural sector, and this is driving an increased focus on farmer and farm business resilience. Participatory extension programmes (PEPs) are a well-known approach for supporting farmer change. The objective of this article is to explore how a PEP based on peer-to-peer learning can support farmers in increasing resilience. Our study examines the inter…
Carcerality and the elimination of Indigenous people in Canada
Drawing from the logic of carcerality, and refined through theories of settler colonialism, I argue in this paper the following. First, carcerality is not just a tactic of settler colonization in Canada for bodily controlling populations, but a key feature of settler colonial claims to land and territory; imposing carceral spaces on Indigenous people is a fundamental necessity for the expectations and ambitions of settler colonization, and as set…
Unstable Properties
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Colonialism (12 works) · Law (12 works) · History (11 works) · Indigenous (11 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ecology (8 works)