Deathscapes of Settler Colonialism
The Necro-Settlement of Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3775894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A J Barker (0000-0003-3577-5079, University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1134-1149 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24694452.2017.1406327 |
| OpenAlex | W2790805254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 43 |
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 of dead and memory. This article consists of three parts: The first situates geographical studies of deathscapes alongside theories about settler colonialism through intersecting discourses of land use. The second includes a settler colonial microhistorical geography of Smith's Knoll and the local deathscape that surrounds it. The third section draws on this case study to reveal new perspectives on the role of burial and memorial in settler colonial place-making and the erasure of Indigenous histories and peoples
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Ecology
“Powell Street is dead”
Hero Narratives in Settler Colonial Contexts
Racial Necrogeographies and the Making of White Space
Longing as Method
Colonial Expressions of Identity in Funerals, Cemeteries, and Funerary Monuments of Nineteenth-Century Perth, Western Australia
Unsettled landscapes
Necropolitics and geography
Cultural memory, white innocence, and United States territory
The Humber is a Haunting
Green afterlives
Le paradigme du colonialisme de peuplement
The dead as property marker
Paving Over the Past
The statue is a painful reminder of the past
Political theory and the rights of indigenous peoples
The Intimate, Urbanising Frontier
Race, Greed and Something More
Introduction
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
Local Histories/Global Designs
Codename Geronimo
Understanding Colonialism and Settler Colonialism as Distinct Formations
Possession, occupation and registration
The ethical demands of settler colonial theory
Isopolitics, Deep Colonizing, Settler Colonialism
Settler common sense
Defining the place of burial
Forensic medicine and religion in the identification of dead soldiers' bodies
Geographies of empire
Awake anon the tales of valour
Personifying Colonial Governance
Toward an Open Sense of Place
Cemetaries and Columbaria, Memorials and Mausoleums
Making Space for Property
The Settler Colonial Present
Clay We Are Made Of
Ethics, Activism and the Anti-Colonial
Being Indigenous
A Manifesto for Abundant Futures
Autoethnography
Historylessness
The Contemporary Reality of Canadian Imperialism
Settler Collective, Founding Violence and Disavowal
Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances
God Is Red
Decolonizing Methodologies
Neoliberal settler colonialism, Canada and the tar sands
The psychic life of biopolitics
The Architecture of Erasure
Body Snatching & Grave Robbing
A genealogist's paradise
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |