Biopolitics meets Terrapolitics

Political Ontologies and Governance in Settler-Colonial Australia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5845844
AutoresMorgan Briggs (0000-0003-2034-1702, The University of Queensland, autor de correspondencia), Morgan Brigg
Año2007
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas403-417
Fecha de publicación2007-08-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361140701513554
OpenAlexW2093493062
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas37

Crises persist in Australian Indigenous affairs because current policy approaches do not address the intersection of Indigenous and European political worlds. This paper responds to this challenge by providing a heuristic device for delineating Settler and Indigenous Australian political ontologies and considering their interaction. It first evokes Settler and Aboriginal ontologies as, respectively, biopolitical (focused through life) and terrapolitical (focused through land). These ideal types help to identify important differences that inform current governance challenges. The paper discusses the entwinement of these traditions as a story of biopolitical dominance wherein Aboriginal people are governed as an 'included-exclusion' within the Australian political community. Despite the overall pattern of dominance, this same entwinement offers possibilities for exchange between biopolitics and terrapolitics and, hence, for breaking the recurrent crises of Indigenous affairs

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