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Financialisation as settler colonialism: Elora Lee Raymond, ‘The role of the diaspora: malaga, vā, and contesting the financialization of customary land in Samoa’, Urban Geography, 2022

26Nov22

Abstract: The settler-colonial city has been described in relative isolation, detached from the global metropole, intent on internal enrichment through the deterritorialization of Indigenous people. This urban formation deploys familiar spatial techniques: legal borders, economic regions, and segregated enclaves. Yet for many Indigenous peoples, the relationship to land is not juridical, economic, nor socio-racial, it is genealogical. These genealogical ties to land extend the boundaries of settler-colonialism – and resistance to it – beyond the islands, across diasporic space. Decolonial Pacific studies describe a geography resistance to land reform among Indigenous and immigrant Pacific Islanders which exceeds and overspills the settler-colonial city. Diasporic space – moving through and overspilling the settler-colonial city – is the spatial context for understanding resistance to customary land reform in Samoa and the struggles of other Pacific Islanders against settler-colonial processes of dispossession.


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