The Biopolitical Logics of Settler Colonialism and Disruptive Relationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | René Dietrich |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-77 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708616638696 |
| OpenAlex | W2346311261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 29 |
This essay argues that the biopolitical logics of settler colonialism function according to a naturalization in Western thought of politics as a project of hierarchically ordering life in relation to the sphere of politics. Significantly, such a mode of thinking discredits socio-political orders that operate on the basis of a non-hierarchical place-based relationality of all life forms including the land. Through a reading of Foucault and Agamben in their use of Aristotle, I want to show how hierarchy as a principle of the political is already implemented in the premise they draw upon for analyzing the biopolitical. In the same way it remains unrecognized in their analysis of biopolitics, this principle also becomes operative within settler colonial logics of life and land. Recently, however, Indigenous scholars and writers have mobilized relationality in its formative characteristic for Indigenous polities and politics as strategy to disrupt biopolitical logics and denaturalize settler colonial rule, which I want to show through engaging Daniel Heath Justice's Indigenous fantasy trilogy The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles as a site of disruptive relationality and political knowledge production
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Introduction
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Terrapolitics in the Dawnland
Pando/Pando’ Across the Americas
Intersecting paradigms of indigenous representation
The coloniality of neoliberal biopolitics
From European Roots to Settler Soil
Climate coloniality and settler colonialism
Relational Colonialisms and a Turn to Place Based Epistemologies
Before the Law
Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
Mohawk Interruptus
When Did Indians Become Straight?
State Violence and the Execution of Law
Mark My Words
Indigenizing Agamben
Red Skin, White Masks
Race and the Education of Desire
Habeas Viscus
The Transit of Empire
Homo Sacer
Hawaiian Blood
Native Acts
Biopolitics meets Terrapolitics
Theorizing Native Studies
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Like a Loaded Weapon
Spaces between Us
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Necropolitics
Towards a new research agenda
Relational Validity and the "Where" of Inquiry
Settlement's Secret
The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |