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Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law
- legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that
'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within
settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical
interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening
up new approaches to questions of politics and 'the political', the
chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler
colonial 'places' rather than abstract structures of domination. A
claim to water - whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers - is not
simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the
constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle
Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and
future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal
studies, and settler colonial studies, this collection not only
engages with issues of law, water and entitlement in different
national contexts - including Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New
Caledonia and the USA - but also from diverse disciplinary and
institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.
Other People's Country thinks through the entangled objects of law
- legislation, policies, institutions, treaties and so on - that
'govern' waters and that make bodies of water 'lawful' within
settler colonial sites today. Informed by the theoretical
interventions of cosmopolitics and political ecology, each opening
up new approaches to questions of politics and 'the political', the
chapters in this book locate these insights within material settler
colonial 'places' rather than abstract structures of domination. A
claim to water - whether by Indigenous peoples or settlers - is not
simply a claim to a resource. It is a claim to knowledge and to the
constitution of place and therefore, in the terms of Isabelle
Stengers, to the continued constitution of the past, present and
future of real worlds. Including contributions from the fields of
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, critical legal
studies, and settler colonial studies, this collection not only
engages with issues of law, water and entitlement in different
national contexts - including Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New
Caledonia and the USA - but also from diverse disciplinary and
institutional contexts. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.
World Wars I and II witnessed air power's development in the
crucible of hostilities. Ambiguous and competing air power schools
of thought, on occasion, resulted in the strategically questionable
employment of air power. The Allies' bombing of the cultural city
of Dresden in February 1945 serves as a vivid instance of the
results of these tensions. The firestorms that devastated Dresden
now inflame the contemporary air power debate: was the area bombing
of Dresden proportionate to the commensurate military gains?
Striking similarities exist between the emergence of cyber power
today, as a means of warfare in a new domain, and the development
of air power in the first half of the twentieth century. Reflection
upon air power's evolution has been employed as a guide for the
more efficient and effective development of cyber power. An
analysis of air power's formative years has highlighted many of the
pitfalls that lie hidden on cyber power's developmental path. An
awareness of these pitfalls will allow cyber power to develop
pre-emptive strategies on how best to avoid them; thus, debates
pertaining to a cyber Dresden will be able to take place before,
rather than after, the event. Learning from air power's early
experiences will help prevent cyber power from becoming mired in
the same pits that frustrated air power's development. In turn,
cyber advocates will be better able to concentrate their focus upon
developing a coherent theory of cyber power, uniquely tailored to
the challenges of their own domain.
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary
rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements,
bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life
in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides
stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on
ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are
fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental
objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and
viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still
waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and
environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing
together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars,
this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate
the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on
material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances,
responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An
Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality
that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful
effects and vast journeys across time and space.
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