Edited by René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf, Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence (Duke University Press, 2023) is a prescient and illuminating collection that we have recently indexed at Southwest Humanities. “Drawing on literary and cultural studies, social sciences, political theory, visual culture, and film studies,” the contributors to this book “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 Guaraní in Brazil, and the 2016 rule to formally acknowledge a government-to-government relationship between the US federal government and the Native Hawaiian community.” Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Life will be published in May 2023. Please take a look at the publisher’s website here to find more information about exciting new title.
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