Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in ... more Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in practice and thought, for millennia. This intimacy is palpable in the context of settler worldmaking where colonial jurisdiction is enacted by constraining, with an eye to replacing, Indigenous jurisdiction. Here, the authority to have authority is often asserted in practice through violent attempts to control connectivity and movement. To this day, imperial powers assert jurisdiction over space through infrastructures that enhance or inhibit the motion of goods and people, like railroads, pipelines, border walls, and police.2 This Essay investigates the co-production of colonial law and infrastructure on Turtle Island—an Indigenous name for the continent of North America, which already highlights a different conception of jurisdiction and law through its anchor in creation stories. The brief sketches that follow emphasize the co-constitution of law and infrastructure, yet they also prop...
No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any el... more No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers.
This thesis explores pet-keeping in contemporary Britain as an important form of everyday social ... more This thesis explores pet-keeping in contemporary Britain as an important form of everyday social and cultural relationship. Building upon previous work within animal geography, the research traces the various practices of breeding, discipline, care, control and play through which animals are produced as ‘pets’ and pays attention to the geographies of these relationships as animals and their human companions move across a variety of sites and locations. In doing it engages with recent efforts to re-theorise ideas of ‘nature’, ‘culture’ ‘human’ and ‘animal’ and calls for a recognition of the ‘social as more than human’, highlighting the importance of animals in everyday human relationships, identities and lives. Using in-depth ethnographic research methods, this study pays attention to the intimate details of individual human–animal relationships and involves the application of recent theoretical perspectives to the embodied messiness of everyday life. Pet-keeping is seen as a heterogeneous and complex form of human– animal relationality, involving notions of difference both within and between the categories ‘pet’ and ‘pet-owner’. By paying attention to both the specifics of individual human and animal experiences and wider questions of relationships with the non-human world, this research calls into question new understandings of sociality, kinship and ‘more than human’ lives.
Neskantaga First Nation is in the heart of Treaty 9 Territory, 450 kilometres north of Thunder Ba... more Neskantaga First Nation is in the heart of Treaty 9 Territory, 450 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, at the headwaters of the Attawapiskat River, and within the much-hyped Ring of Fire mineral region. As researchers in socio-legal studies and critical geography, we have been working in partnership with the leadership in Neskantaga for many years in support of their inherent jurisdiction to govern their homelands in accordance with their own Indigenous legal order.
Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in ... more Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, in practice and thought, for millennia. This intimacy is palpable in the context of settler worldmaking where colonial jurisdiction is enacted by constraining, with an eye to replacing, Indigenous jurisdiction. Here, the authority to have authority is often asserted in practice through violent attempts to control connectivity and movement. To this day, imperial powers assert jurisdiction over space through infrastructures that enhance or inhibit the motion of goods and people, like railroads, pipelines, border walls, and police.2 This Essay investigates the co-production of colonial law and infrastructure on Turtle Island—an Indigenous name for the continent of North America, which already highlights a different conception of jurisdiction and law through its anchor in creation stories. The brief sketches that follow emphasize the co-constitution of law and infrastructure, yet they also prop...
No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any el... more No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers.
This thesis explores pet-keeping in contemporary Britain as an important form of everyday social ... more This thesis explores pet-keeping in contemporary Britain as an important form of everyday social and cultural relationship. Building upon previous work within animal geography, the research traces the various practices of breeding, discipline, care, control and play through which animals are produced as ‘pets’ and pays attention to the geographies of these relationships as animals and their human companions move across a variety of sites and locations. In doing it engages with recent efforts to re-theorise ideas of ‘nature’, ‘culture’ ‘human’ and ‘animal’ and calls for a recognition of the ‘social as more than human’, highlighting the importance of animals in everyday human relationships, identities and lives. Using in-depth ethnographic research methods, this study pays attention to the intimate details of individual human–animal relationships and involves the application of recent theoretical perspectives to the embodied messiness of everyday life. Pet-keeping is seen as a heterogeneous and complex form of human– animal relationality, involving notions of difference both within and between the categories ‘pet’ and ‘pet-owner’. By paying attention to both the specifics of individual human and animal experiences and wider questions of relationships with the non-human world, this research calls into question new understandings of sociality, kinship and ‘more than human’ lives.
Neskantaga First Nation is in the heart of Treaty 9 Territory, 450 kilometres north of Thunder Ba... more Neskantaga First Nation is in the heart of Treaty 9 Territory, 450 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, at the headwaters of the Attawapiskat River, and within the much-hyped Ring of Fire mineral region. As researchers in socio-legal studies and critical geography, we have been working in partnership with the leadership in Neskantaga for many years in support of their inherent jurisdiction to govern their homelands in accordance with their own Indigenous legal order.
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