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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life investigate biopolitics and geopolitics as two distinct yet entangled techniques of settler colonial states across the globe, contending that Indigenous life and practices cannot be contained and defined by the racialization and dispossession of settler colonialism.
Table of ContentsForeword / 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
