Overview

The contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of settler-colonial states across the globe, from the Americas and Hawai'i to Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on literary and cultural studies, social sciences, political theory, visual culture, and film studies, they show how biopolitics and geopolitics produce norms of social life and land use that delegitimize and target Indigenous bodies, lives, lands, and political formations. Among other topics, the contributors explore the representations of sexual violence against Native women in literature, Indigenous critiques of the carceral state in North America, Indigenous elders' refusal of dominant formulations of aging, the governance of Indigenous peoples in Guyana, the displacement of Guarani in Brazil, and the 2016 rule to formally acknowledge a government-to-government relationship between the US federal government and the Native Hawaiian community. Throughout, the contributors contend that Indigenous life and practices cannot be contained and defined by the racialization and dispossession of settler colonialism, thereby pointing to the transformative potential of an Indigenous-centered decolonization. Contributors Rene Dietrich, Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Mishuana Goeman, Alyosha Goldstein, Sandy Grande, Michael R. Griffiths, Shona N. Jackson, Kerstin Knopf, Sabine N. Meyer, Robert Nichols, Mark Rifkin, David Uahikeaikalei?ohu Maile

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Author:   René Dietrich ,  Kerstin Knopf
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.431kg
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9781478019763

ISBN 10:   147801976
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   05 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword / Alyosha Goldstein  vii Acknowledgments  xiii Introduction: The Bio/Geopolitics of Settler States and Indigenous Normativities / René Dietrich  1 1. “You Tell Me Your Stories, and I Will Tell You Mine”: Witnessing and Combating Native Women’s Extirpation in American Indian Literature / Mishuana Goeman  45 2. The Biopolitics of Aging: Indigenous Elders as Elsewhere / Sandy Grande  67 3. The Colonialism of Incarceration / Robert Nichols  85 4. Are Hawaiians Indians? / David Uahikeakalei‘ohu Maile  107 5. Postcolonial Biopolitics and the Hieroglyphs of Democracy / Shona N.Jackson  131 6. Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation / Mark Rifkin  159 7. “I Was Nothing but a Bare Skeleton Walking the Path”: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and Life in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear / Sabine N. Meyer  177 8. Unseen Wonder: Decolonizing Magical Realism in Kim Scott’s Benang and Witi Ihimaera’s “Maata” / Michael R. Griffiths  197 9. Agency and Art: Survivance with Camera and Crayon / Jacqueline Fear-Segal  219 10. Land through the Camera: Post/Colonial Space and Indigenous Struggles in Birdwatchers (Terra Vermelha) / Kerstin Knopf  245 Contributors  273 Index  277

Reviews

""[A] superb collection of essays. . . . This book has a usefulness and range which is itself reflective of the breadth and dynamism of Indigenous Studies today; it moves between a very great number of disciplines . . . and features contributions that focus on the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia as well as Hawai'i.""--Padraig Kirwan ""Modern Language Review"" (4/1/2024 12:00:00 AM) ""The essays in Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life are provocative and cutting-edge, and offer many potential uses for research and teaching. The volume feels cohesive, and the chapters are exceptionally well-organized around key ideas and frameworks, which encourages readers to explore linkages across fields and cultural and geopolitical contexts. Indigenous and settler colonial studies scholars, especially those working within political science, literature, and visual and cultural studies, will surely find this volume to be a valuable resource.""--Leah Kuragano ""Lateral"" (11/1/2024 12:00:00 AM) ""The timeliness of Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life owes to the continuing urgency to examine the systemic colonial violence that structures deployments of and false divisions between the biopolitical an1 the geopolitical. Plus, the geopolitical span of the essays invites consideration of how the networked structures of empire conjoin different peoples and lands, and how life denying divisions can and are being refused and resisted.""--Cynthia G. Franklin ""American Literary History"" (3/4/2025 12:00:00 AM) ""The volume is . . . brilliantly successful in demonstrating the capacity of Indigenous epistemologies to transform conversations in critical theory, and it outlines new paths for the development of Indigenous critical theory. Individual chapters would make worthy additions to advanced undergraduate classes and the volume as a whole will be essential reading for graduate seminars on Indigenous critical theory and related disciplines. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life opens space for deeper engagements between Indigenous studies and allied disciplines.""--Matthew Kruer ""Native American and Indigenous Studies"" (3/1/2025 12:00:00 AM)

""[A] superb collection of essays. . . . This book has a usefulness and range which is itself reflective of the breadth and dynamism of Indigenous Studies today; it moves between a very great number of disciplines . . . and features contributions that focus on the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia as well as Hawai'i.""--Padraig Kirwan ""Modern Language Review"" ""The essays in Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life are provocative and cutting-edge, and offer many potential uses for research and teaching. The volume feels cohesive, and the chapters are exceptionally well-organized around key ideas and frameworks, which encourages readers to explore linkages across fields and cultural and geopolitical contexts. Indigenous and settler colonial studies scholars, especially those working within political science, literature, and visual and cultural studies, will surely find this volume to be a valuable resource.""--Leah Kuragano ""Lateral"" ""The timeliness of Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life owes to the continuing urgency to examine the systemic colonial violence that structures deployments of and false divisions between the biopolitical an1 the geopolitical. Plus, the geopolitical span of the essays invites consideration of how the networked structures of empire conjoin different peoples and lands, and how life denying divisions can and are being refused and resisted.""--Cynthia G. Franklin ""American Literary History"" ""The volume is . . . brilliantly successful in demonstrating the capacity of Indigenous epistemologies to transform conversations in critical theory, and it outlines new paths for the development of Indigenous critical theory. Individual chapters would make worthy additions to advanced undergraduate classes and the volume as a whole will be essential reading for graduate seminars on Indigenous critical theory and related disciplines. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life opens space for deeper engagements between Indigenous studies and allied disciplines.""--Matthew Kruer ""Native American and Indigenous Studies""

Author Information

RenÉ Dietrich is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the Catholic University of EichstÄtt-Ingolstadt and author of Revising and Remembering (after) the End: American Post-Apocalyptic Poetry Since 1945 from Ginsberg to ForchÉ. Kerstin Knopf is Professor of North American and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen and author of Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America.

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