Randi Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0691-9670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Citizenship for the Future
This article uses the framework of prefigurative citizenship to show how Sahrawi refugees have worked to build a sense of hope and possibility while displaced. Prefigurative citizenship is both made and mobilized in relation to a vision that rewrites current connections between a state, a territory, and a people to reposition Sahrawi refugees while building decolonized futures. This article explores how Western Sahara's territorial qualities and …
Suspicion
How might fieldwork anxieties serve as a productive site to revisit the theoretical presumptions that guide research practices? This article explores moments of suspicion and scepticism during fieldwork to reflect on the tensions of fixing anthropological lines of inquiry and conceptual lineages. Drawing on research with Sahrawi refugees and the Sahrawi state‐in‐exile, it examines the disjuncture between project conceptualisation and fieldwork ex…
Selling the future state
Sahrawi refugees and the Sahrawi state-in-exile have sought to assert their claims to Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, while exiled in refugee camps in Algeria. Through an examination of the Sahrawi state's use of deferred natural resource contracts, this article explores Sahrawi political action prior to - and in anticipation of - the referendum on self-determination. I suggest that Sahrawi-led natural resource contracts operate as a techni…
‘We’re in the coal business’
Despite the worsening climate crisis and market shifts towards decarbonization, Australia remains heavily invested in carbon-intensive activities. As one of the world's largest exporters of coal and gas, Australian political economy has been dominated over the last several decades by fossil fuel expansionism. In this article, we explore how Australian corporate and political elites have defended the continuation of fossil fuel extraction and use …
Terrains of legality and sovereignty
This article considers the case of the NM Cherry Blossom, a bulk carrier that docked in South Africa loaded with phosphate cargo from Western Sahara. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic argued that the phosphate cargo was pillaged from the non-self-governing territory, and a South African court set out to determine ownership. This article analyses South Africa's recognition of the Sahrawi state's sovereignty as it pertains to determining the own…
Making green extreme
By marking protests as violent and protesters as extremists, politicians and governments around the world have reclassified citizens’ environmental engagement. Government rhetoric and accompanying legislative amendments establish a baseline by which citizens – and their causes – are excluded and discounted. This article contributes to understanding how environmental protesters and their activities are constructed as dangerous through analysis of …
Contested language in the making and unmaking of Western Sahara’s extractive economy
This article considers the battle over resource extraction in the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. I analyse how the language of human rights has simultaneously been used by the Moroccan state to justify its extractive operations in the territory while Saharawi refugees use it to challenge these operations. Such competing invocations of human rights generate insight into how rights are made and re-made through configurations of pop…
Terrains of legality and sovereignty
This article considers the case of the NM Cherry Blossom, a bulk carrier that docked in South Africa loaded with phosphate cargo from Western Sahara. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic argued that the phosphate cargo was pillaged from the non-self-governing territory, and a South African court set out to determine ownership. This article analyses South Africa's recognition of the Sahrawi state's sovereignty as it pertains to determining the own…
Contested language in the making and unmaking of Western Sahara’s extractive economy
This article considers the battle over resource extraction in the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. I analyse how the language of human rights has simultaneously been used by the Moroccan state to justify its extractive operations in the territory while Saharawi refugees use it to challenge these operations. Such competing invocations of human rights generate insight into how rights are made and re-made through configurations of pop…
Making green extreme
By marking protests as violent and protesters as extremists, politicians and governments around the world have reclassified citizens’ environmental engagement. Government rhetoric and accompanying legislative amendments establish a baseline by which citizens – and their causes – are excluded and discounted. This article contributes to understanding how environmental protesters and their activities are constructed as dangerous through analysis of …
Contested language in the making and unmaking of Western Sahara’s extractive economy
This article considers the battle over resource extraction in the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. I analyse how the language of human rights has simultaneously been used by the Moroccan state to justify its extractive operations in the territory while Saharawi refugees use it to challenge these operations. Such competing invocations of human rights generate insight into how rights are made and re-made through configurations of pop…
‘We’re in the coal business’
Despite the worsening climate crisis and market shifts towards decarbonization, Australia remains heavily invested in carbon-intensive activities. As one of the world's largest exporters of coal and gas, Australian political economy has been dominated over the last several decades by fossil fuel expansionism. In this article, we explore how Australian corporate and political elites have defended the continuation of fossil fuel extraction and use …
Terrains of legality and sovereignty
This article considers the case of the NM Cherry Blossom, a bulk carrier that docked in South Africa loaded with phosphate cargo from Western Sahara. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic argued that the phosphate cargo was pillaged from the non-self-governing territory, and a South African court set out to determine ownership. This article analyses South Africa's recognition of the Sahrawi state's sovereignty as it pertains to determining the own…
Making green extreme
By marking protests as violent and protesters as extremists, politicians and governments around the world have reclassified citizens’ environmental engagement. Government rhetoric and accompanying legislative amendments establish a baseline by which citizens – and their causes – are excluded and discounted. This article contributes to understanding how environmental protesters and their activities are constructed as dangerous through analysis of …
Selling the future state
Sahrawi refugees and the Sahrawi state-in-exile have sought to assert their claims to Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, while exiled in refugee camps in Algeria. Through an examination of the Sahrawi state's use of deferred natural resource contracts, this article explores Sahrawi political action prior to - and in anticipation of - the referendum on self-determination. I suggest that Sahrawi-led natural resource contracts operate as a techni…
Citizenship for the Future
This article uses the framework of prefigurative citizenship to show how Sahrawi refugees have worked to build a sense of hope and possibility while displaced. Prefigurative citizenship is both made and mobilized in relation to a vision that rewrites current connections between a state, a territory, and a people to reposition Sahrawi refugees while building decolonized futures. This article explores how Western Sahara's territorial qualities and …
Suspicion
How might fieldwork anxieties serve as a productive site to revisit the theoretical presumptions that guide research practices? This article explores moments of suspicion and scepticism during fieldwork to reflect on the tensions of fixing anthropological lines of inquiry and conceptual lineages. Drawing on research with Sahrawi refugees and the Sahrawi state‐in‐exile, it examines the disjuncture between project conceptualisation and fieldwork ex…
Politics (6 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Refugee (3 works)