Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction
Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction
By: Deborah Cowen | What is infrastructure? I think about infrastructure as matter that shapes motion itself. Brian Larkin (2013) suggests that infrastructures “comprise the architecture for circulation.” Infrastructure can underpin and sustain motion and circulation, but it can also inhibit, disrupt or foreclose motion.
Settler colonial infrastructures and infrastructure otherwise Read More »
By: Anne Spice | The reclamation and appropriation of the terminology of “infrastructure” challenges the state’s weaponization of that language. It is a reclamation and transformation of Canadian legal language that reifies and legitimizes forms of material invasion, among them colonial materializations like pipelines that are being built through unceded Indigenous territories.
Infrastructure in the service of future imaginaries Read More »