[csaa-forum] ACS Virtual Lecture Series talk, Jan 30: Holly Randell-Moon - Environments of Power: Protectionism, Race, and Biopower in Australia

[Timothy Laurie]

ACS Virtual Lecture Series Talk: Environments of Power: Protectionism, Race, and Biopower in Australia



Holly Randell-Moon (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

January 30th, 2024, 11AM AEST/ Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10)

Abstract: The spatial segregation of First Nations peoples through Protection policies has fundamentally shaped the environmental and demographic landscape in the territories now known as Australia. Protection laws were variously implemented in the late nineteenth century by colonial administrators and continued into government policy in the early twentieth century. While each state enacted Protection laws according to their own territoriality and socio-political context, Protectionism was underpinned by the overriding discourse of racial science which posited that First Nations were in biological decline. Based on this premise, First Nations were spatially segregated, in order to be ‘protected’, from non-Indigenous populations on missions and reserves. Drawing on the work of Warwick Anderson and Michel Foucault, this paper outlines how the spatial configurations of race intersected in Protectionism in the environmental and biopolitical construction of First Nations as requiring quarantine and discipline. This occurred through a spatial remove of First Nations peoples into areas environmentally depleted by colonial capitalism. Examining Protectionism through the lens of environmentality, as facilitating environments of power, discloses the inextricability of the race-space nexus in its historical development in the Australian context.

Keywords: Protectionism, environmentality, race, biopower, Australia, First Nations

Bio: Holly Randell-Moon is a non-Indigenous Senior Lecturer in the School of Indigenous Australian Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She uses critical race and whiteness studies theories to situate her Anglo-Celtic family and settler ancestors within the social and built landscapes of settler colonisation. Holly has published on race, religion, and sovereignty in the journals Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Celebrity Studies, and Social Semiotics. Her publications on biopower, cultural geography, and digital infrastructure have appeared in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture and Policy & Internet. Along with Ryan Tippet, she is the editor of Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality (2016). She is the Editor of the journal Somatechnics.



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