David Hugill
Biographic Data
| ID | 454813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Hugill |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Hugill |
| SIGNATURE | HUGILL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1813-9321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital Colonialism, Fossil Capitalism, and Indigenous Dispossession
This paper argues that North America’s emerging digital economies are materially and politically grounded in ongoing regimes of settler-colonial extraction. While scholarship on “digital colonialism” has illuminated new forms of data appropriation, corporate concentration, epistemic domination, and frontier discourse, it has often underemphasized the extent to which digital infrastructures remain tethered to fossil capitalism and Indigenous dispo…
Taxi Wars 2.0: Digital Ride-Hailing and the Long Arc of “Disruption” in the Canadian Private Taxi Industry
This article puts recent conflicts over the introduction of digital ride-hailing services to Canadian cities in conversation with a longer history of “disruption” in the private transportation industry. It begins by examining historical work on earlier “taxi wars” to demonstrate that the sector has, for more than a century, been repeatedly turned upside-down by technological innovation. Next, it records the history of the first decade of digital …
Late Fascism and Liberal Exceptionalism: An Interview with Alberto Toscano
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: Introduction
Le capitalisme racial et la production de villes coloniales de peuplement
Cet article vise à comprendre un régime de spatialité racialisante qui agit sur la répartition géographique et la mobilité professionnelle des travailleurs humanitaires africains en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Sahel. La recherche est construite à partir d’entretiens biographiques menés avec des personnes en début de carrière et avec d’autres plus expérimentées, ainsi qu’à partir de l’observation des stratégies d’apprenants d’une « école d’humanitair…
Settler States in Conversation: Intergovernmental Policy Exchanges, Settler-Colonial Urbanism, and the Politics of Comparison
In October 1963, top officials from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Affairs Branch of the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration convened in Scottsdale, Arizona. This article mobilizes the records of the 1963 meetings to contribute to broader debates about the relationship between settler colonization and the production of urban space. It argues that by focusing on the relationships between settler states sch…
The settler colonial city in three movements
This paper traces the trajectory of scholarship on the settler colonial city and argues that this literature could pay closer attention to the dynamic circulations, movements, and mobilities that constitute and sustain urban space. It foregrounds the ways that the movement of commodities, capital, and people must be assiduously managed in order to preserve settler colonial relations in the city and beyond. Building on existing work, it argues tha…
On structures and events
Patrick Wolfe's description of settler colonialism as a “structure, not an event” has made a lasting impact on the field of settler colonial studies and beyond. This short intervention considers what the metaphors of “structure” and “event” reveal and what they conceal when they are deployed in the service of understanding settler-colonial urbanism. It emphasizes the point that settler-colonial cities are multi-scalar entities produced by an inte…
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Natchee Blu Barnd. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2017. xi and 232 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-902-8).In recent years, settl
Racial capitalism and the production of settler colonial cities
Colonial and Postcolonial Cities
Colonial cities are urban settlements produced through colonization, a sociospatial process of dispossession through which a group of outside actors asserts dominion over lands occupied by indigenous peoples, generally at the behest of an imperial state.
Ghetto
The term “ghetto” has been used to describe zones of ethnic, religions, and “racial” concentration in a range of urban contexts, from early modern Venice to the contemporary United States. This entry surveys the varied ways that this contested term has been taken up.
What is a settler-colonial city
What is a "settler-colonial city" and how does it differ from other forms of imperial urban spatial organization? This article seeks to answer these questions by attempting to urbanize recent insights in settler-colonial theory. It begins by considering well-established theorizations of the "colonial city"-particularly those developed by geographers and urbanists in the 1970s and 1980s-in order to assess their suitability for analyses of contempo…
Settler colonial urbanism: Notes from Minneapolis and the life of Thomas Barlow Walker
This article considers the explicit link between the historical production of the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) and the violence of settler colonization by examining the life and contributions of one of the urban region's most celebrated 'city builders', Thomas Barlow Walker. Drawing on recent scholarship in the emergent subfield of settler-colonial studies, it demonstrates that Walker's rise to local fame and fortu…
Born Again Urbanism: New Missionary Incursions, Aboriginal Resistance and Barriers to Rebuilding Relationships in Winnipeg's North End
This paper examines the controversy that emerged as the City of Winnipeg debated committing public funds to an evangelical Christian group seeking to build a youth centre in an urban neighborhood with a large Aboriginal population. It traces the emergence of a coordinated opposition to the project and demonstrates why many felt that municipal and federal support was not only inappropriate but also worked to recapitulate longstanding patterns of d…
Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times: A Dialogue with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
The Italian theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi has spent a lifetime participating in revolutionary movements and thinking through their complexities. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his association with the Italian autonomist movement Operaismo (“workerism”) and its prominent attempts to transform communist politics by resituating the “needs, desires, and organizational autonomies” of workers at the foundation of political praxis (…
Commercial negotiation: Reaching for disagreement within an overall project of reaching for agreement
Despite the omnipresent organizational feature of meetings on construction projects, they have received negligible empirical attention. This paper explicates a 13‐minute episode within a meeting, wherein the two main parties negotiate to make significant changes to the commercial arrangements. The inspection reveals distinct phases of a bargaining sequence, wherein identifiably ‘principal’ actors are engaged in expositing corporate objectives thr…
Racial capitalism and the production of settler colonial cities
What is a settler-colonial city
What is a "settler-colonial city" and how does it differ from other forms of imperial urban spatial organization? This article seeks to answer these questions by attempting to urbanize recent insights in settler-colonial theory. It begins by considering well-established theorizations of the "colonial city"-particularly those developed by geographers and urbanists in the 1970s and 1980s-in order to assess their suitability for analyses of contempo…
The settler colonial city in three movements
This paper traces the trajectory of scholarship on the settler colonial city and argues that this literature could pay closer attention to the dynamic circulations, movements, and mobilities that constitute and sustain urban space. It foregrounds the ways that the movement of commodities, capital, and people must be assiduously managed in order to preserve settler colonial relations in the city and beyond. Building on existing work, it argues tha…
On structures and events
Patrick Wolfe's description of settler colonialism as a “structure, not an event” has made a lasting impact on the field of settler colonial studies and beyond. This short intervention considers what the metaphors of “structure” and “event” reveal and what they conceal when they are deployed in the service of understanding settler-colonial urbanism. It emphasizes the point that settler-colonial cities are multi-scalar entities produced by an inte…
Born Again Urbanism: New Missionary Incursions, Aboriginal Resistance and Barriers to Rebuilding Relationships in Winnipeg's North End
This paper examines the controversy that emerged as the City of Winnipeg debated committing public funds to an evangelical Christian group seeking to build a youth centre in an urban neighborhood with a large Aboriginal population. It traces the emergence of a coordinated opposition to the project and demonstrates why many felt that municipal and federal support was not only inappropriate but also worked to recapitulate longstanding patterns of d…
Commercial negotiation: Reaching for disagreement within an overall project of reaching for agreement
Despite the omnipresent organizational feature of meetings on construction projects, they have received negligible empirical attention. This paper explicates a 13‐minute episode within a meeting, wherein the two main parties negotiate to make significant changes to the commercial arrangements. The inspection reveals distinct phases of a bargaining sequence, wherein identifiably ‘principal’ actors are engaged in expositing corporate objectives thr…
Commercial negotiation: Reaching for disagreement within an overall project of reaching for agreement
Despite the omnipresent organizational feature of meetings on construction projects, they have received negligible empirical attention. This paper explicates a 13‐minute episode within a meeting, wherein the two main parties negotiate to make significant changes to the commercial arrangements. The inspection reveals distinct phases of a bargaining sequence, wherein identifiably ‘principal’ actors are engaged in expositing corporate objectives thr…
Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times: A Dialogue with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
The Italian theorist Franco “Bifo” Berardi has spent a lifetime participating in revolutionary movements and thinking through their complexities. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his association with the Italian autonomist movement Operaismo (“workerism”) and its prominent attempts to transform communist politics by resituating the “needs, desires, and organizational autonomies” of workers at the foundation of political praxis (…
Born Again Urbanism: New Missionary Incursions, Aboriginal Resistance and Barriers to Rebuilding Relationships in Winnipeg's North End
This paper examines the controversy that emerged as the City of Winnipeg debated committing public funds to an evangelical Christian group seeking to build a youth centre in an urban neighborhood with a large Aboriginal population. It traces the emergence of a coordinated opposition to the project and demonstrates why many felt that municipal and federal support was not only inappropriate but also worked to recapitulate longstanding patterns of d…
Settler colonial urbanism: Notes from Minneapolis and the life of Thomas Barlow Walker
This article considers the explicit link between the historical production of the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN) and the violence of settler colonization by examining the life and contributions of one of the urban region's most celebrated 'city builders', Thomas Barlow Walker. Drawing on recent scholarship in the emergent subfield of settler-colonial studies, it demonstrates that Walker's rise to local fame and fortu…
Colonial and Postcolonial Cities
Colonial cities are urban settlements produced through colonization, a sociospatial process of dispossession through which a group of outside actors asserts dominion over lands occupied by indigenous peoples, generally at the behest of an imperial state.
Ghetto
The term “ghetto” has been used to describe zones of ethnic, religions, and “racial” concentration in a range of urban contexts, from early modern Venice to the contemporary United States. This entry surveys the varied ways that this contested term has been taken up.
What is a settler-colonial city
What is a "settler-colonial city" and how does it differ from other forms of imperial urban spatial organization? This article seeks to answer these questions by attempting to urbanize recent insights in settler-colonial theory. It begins by considering well-established theorizations of the "colonial city"-particularly those developed by geographers and urbanists in the 1970s and 1980s-in order to assess their suitability for analyses of contempo…
Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism
Natchee Blu Barnd. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2017. xi and 232 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-902-8).In recent years, settl
Racial capitalism and the production of settler colonial cities
The settler colonial city in three movements
This paper traces the trajectory of scholarship on the settler colonial city and argues that this literature could pay closer attention to the dynamic circulations, movements, and mobilities that constitute and sustain urban space. It foregrounds the ways that the movement of commodities, capital, and people must be assiduously managed in order to preserve settler colonial relations in the city and beyond. Building on existing work, it argues tha…
On structures and events
Patrick Wolfe's description of settler colonialism as a “structure, not an event” has made a lasting impact on the field of settler colonial studies and beyond. This short intervention considers what the metaphors of “structure” and “event” reveal and what they conceal when they are deployed in the service of understanding settler-colonial urbanism. It emphasizes the point that settler-colonial cities are multi-scalar entities produced by an inte…
Settler States in Conversation: Intergovernmental Policy Exchanges, Settler-Colonial Urbanism, and the Politics of Comparison
In October 1963, top officials from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Affairs Branch of the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration convened in Scottsdale, Arizona. This article mobilizes the records of the 1963 meetings to contribute to broader debates about the relationship between settler colonization and the production of urban space. It argues that by focusing on the relationships between settler states sch…
Le capitalisme racial et la production de villes coloniales de peuplement
Cet article vise à comprendre un régime de spatialité racialisante qui agit sur la répartition géographique et la mobilité professionnelle des travailleurs humanitaires africains en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Sahel. La recherche est construite à partir d’entretiens biographiques menés avec des personnes en début de carrière et avec d’autres plus expérimentées, ainsi qu’à partir de l’observation des stratégies d’apprenants d’une « école d’humanitair…
Taxi Wars 2.0: Digital Ride-Hailing and the Long Arc of “Disruption” in the Canadian Private Taxi Industry
This article puts recent conflicts over the introduction of digital ride-hailing services to Canadian cities in conversation with a longer history of “disruption” in the private transportation industry. It begins by examining historical work on earlier “taxi wars” to demonstrate that the sector has, for more than a century, been repeatedly turned upside-down by technological innovation. Next, it records the history of the first decade of digital …
Late Fascism and Liberal Exceptionalism: An Interview with Alberto Toscano
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: Introduction
Digital Colonialism, Fossil Capitalism, and Indigenous Dispossession
This paper argues that North America’s emerging digital economies are materially and politically grounded in ongoing regimes of settler-colonial extraction. While scholarship on “digital colonialism” has illuminated new forms of data appropriation, corporate concentration, epistemic domination, and frontier discourse, it has often underemphasized the extent to which digital infrastructures remain tethered to fossil capitalism and Indigenous dispo…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Colonialism (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Urbanism (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Politics (5 works)