Mapping Deathscapes

Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, Australia. She is author/editor of nine books including the monographs Survival Media (2017), Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies (2009) and Reaches of Empire (1992).Joseph Pugliese is Professor of Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. His previous books include Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010), State Violence and the Execution of Law: Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2012) and Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (2020).

• Introduction: Mapping DeathscapesSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese with contributions by Michelle Bui, Pilar Kasat, Ayman Qwaider and Raed Yacoub Part IDeathscapes Intersectionalities OverviewSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 1. Violence and Intersecting Power RelationsPatricia Hill Collins 2. The Colonial DebtscapeMaria Giannacopoulos 3. “You Have to Pay with Your Body”: Sexual Violence, Border Violence, and the Settler StateSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese Part IIMaking Indigenous Women Visible in the DeathscapeOverviewSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 4. Data Silence in the Settler Archive: Indigenous Femicide, Deathscapes and Social MediaBronwyn Carlson 5. “Say Her Name”: Naming Aboriginal Women in the Justice SystemHannah McGlade and Stella Tarrant 6. Close the InquestAlison Whittaker Part IIIRefugees in the Deathscape: Crimes of Peace OverviewSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 7. The Confined Sea and the Wavering of SovereigntyMaurzio Albahari 8. Racialized Violence in Europe: The Genealogy of Amnesia Project and the Immobilization of Refugees?Marina Gržinić 9. Life and Death at the Digitized Border: “Access Denied”M.I. Franklin 10. Fatal Prescriptions: Immigration Detention, Mismedication, and the Necropolitics of UncareJonathan Xavier Inda Part IVAesthetic Witnessing in the DeathcapeOverviewSuvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 11. Artistic Responses to Historical and Ongoing Genocidal Violence Against Aboriginal WomenTess Allas and Ruben Allas 12. Looking Into the World from Somewhere Else: Mapping and the Visualisation of Racial Violence in AustraliaAntonio Traverso 13. Perpetual Trauma: Witnessing Deathscapes of the Colonial ProjectAdrian Stimson Afterwords14. After AbolitionKyle Carrero Lopez 15. Transformative JusticeSuvendrini Perera and Joseph PuglieseIndex