Holly Randell-Moon, First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation, 03.04.2025, 12:30 pm-2 pm CET

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First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation

The infrastructuring of First Nations land into cities is a central project of settler colonisa- tion. In the lands now known as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, settler-colonial myths of ‘uncultivated’ territory justified English invasion and settlement. These myths continue to inform contemporary infrastructure development and discourse which resist First Nations’ sovereignties and self-determination even as the latter unsettles settler-colonial infrastructuring. This chapter offers a predominantly theoretical account of how urban infrastructuring is a constitutive feature of settler colonisation and how settler-colonial urban imaginaries construct both urbanisation and infrastructure as non-Indigenous.

Speaker: Holly Randell-Moon, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University

Holly is a non-Indigenous researcher and Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia. She uses critical race and whiteness studies theories to situate her Anglo-Celtic family and settler ancestors within the social and built landscapes of settler colonisation. Along with Ryan Tippet, she is the editor of Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality (2016). She edits Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power.

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