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« The poetics of petro-settler colonialism: Max Karpinski, ‘Isotopic Poetics: The Petrocultural Appropriations of Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons’, Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 13, 1, 2022, pp. 107-128
Settler dispossessive regulation of Indigenous life: Rebecca Jane Hall, Leah F Vosko, Veldon Coburn, ‘Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Gendered Relational Reading of Settler Colonial Containment in Shubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada’, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2022 »

The settlers control the land and the air: Angela Smith, ‘Air Deportation and the Settler Colony’, antiAtlas Journal, 5, 2022

05Jul22

Abstract: Airlines play an important role in border policing and deportation, not only in terms of aviation infrastructure but also as potent, affective national symbols that shape the contours of belonging. In the context of Australia, deportation functions as an assertive act of settler state sovereignty within broader carceral circulations of the Pacific archipelago.

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