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Undoing Settler Imaginaries, Re-Imagining Digital Knowledge Politics
Topics: Indigenous Peoples
, Digital Geographies
, Political Geography
Keywords: Digital Geographies, Decolonization, Geographical Imaginaries, Anti-Colonialism Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Tuesday Session Start / End Time: 3/1/2022 02:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 3/1/2022 03:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 61
Authors:
Isaac Javier Rivera, University of Washington
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Abstract
Settler imaginaries take shape through an apparatus of judicial-political technologies that organize ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’ expressions of social-political life. In this paper, I trace the relationship between the unconsented colonial emplacement of settler imaginaries onto geography and their maintenance by digital and visual regimes through the framework of Indigenous refusal. I argue for theorizing in precise terms the ways in which digitally and visuality intersect to animate settler spatial imaginaries and how Indigenous refusal as an embodied spatial stance maps colonialism's end. I conclude by underscoring how Indigenous refusal as a spatial practice conditions the re-imagining of digital knowledge politics towards liberatory geographies.
Undoing Settler Imaginaries, Re-Imagining Digital Knowledge Politics