The spectacle of settler colonial urbanism, racialized policing, and Indigenous refusal of white possessive logics

IF 1.1 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 DOI:10.1080/2201473X.2023.2195044

J. Scherer, Rylan Kafara, J. Koch

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ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how the underlying logics of white possession continue to fuel a cycle of state-supported territorial acquisition, enclosure, and expulsion in Edmonton, Alberta’s city center through the recent opening of Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arena and home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers. Drawing from a two-year ethnography, we examine how men’s professional hockey and its related land development projects are powerful mechanisms for bringing a new iteration of settler colonialism to the city, including as hockey fans re-enact a historical racial hierarchy that privileges certain lives over others, and as police enforce this racial project of accumulation and its colonial lines of force with impunity. Our research, moreover, challenges common-sense ideas about the benefits of sports-driven downtown redevelopment, as well as the widespread belief that settler colonialism is an event of the past that occurred outside of cities. Finally, as settlers renew and reproduce lines of power through these processes, we also explore the various ways in which city-center residents refuse white possessive logics in their attempts to transcend the limits of ‘settler-colonial city-making’ and policing, ‘producing urban space in their own right.’ 1

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移民殖民城市主义，种族化的警察，以及土著对白人占有逻辑的拒绝

在本文中，我们探讨了白人占有的潜在逻辑是如何通过最近开放的国家资助的6.137亿美元的体育馆和国家冰球联盟(NHL)埃德蒙顿油人队的主场罗杰斯广场，继续推动国家支持的埃德蒙顿城市中心的领土收购、圈地和驱逐循环的。从两年的民族志中，我们研究了男子职业冰球及其相关的土地开发项目是如何将定居者殖民主义的新迭代引入城市的强大机制，包括冰球球迷重新制定历史上的种族等级制度，使某些人的生活比其他人更有特权，以及警察在不受惩罚的情况下执行这种种族积累项目及其殖民路线。此外，我们的研究挑战了关于体育驱动的市中心重建的好处的常识性观念，以及普遍认为定居者殖民主义是过去发生在城市之外的事件。最后，随着定居者通过这些过程更新和再生产权力线，我们也探索了城市中心居民拒绝白人占有逻辑的各种方式，他们试图超越“定居者-殖民地城市制造”和警务的限制，“以自己的权利创造城市空间”。' 1

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Settler Colonial Studies SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.80

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The journal aims to establish settler colonial studies as a distinct field of scholarly research. Scholars and students will find and contribute to historically-oriented research and analyses covering contemporary issues. We also aim to present multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, involving areas like history, law, genocide studies, indigenous, colonial and postcolonial studies, anthropology, historical geography, economics, politics, sociology, international relations, political science, literary criticism, cultural and gender studies and philosophy.