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More than Metaphor: Settler Colonialism, Frontier Logic, and the Continuities of Racialized Dispossession in a Southwest U.S. City
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.982 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1750940
Sarah Launius 1 , Geoffrey Alan Boyce 2
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Human geographers have long noted the colonial tropes and frontier imaginaries used to stimulate investment and normalize predatory property speculation within North American cities. Drawing on the insights of indigenous scholars and theorists of settler colonialism, in this article we argue a need to move beyond an analogical deployment of the “frontier” as a mere trope or imaginary and suggest that in settler colonial contexts, like the United States, the frontier and its structuring logic remain an ongoing feature of racial governance and capital accumulation over time. To develop this argument, we examine a genealogy of multiple and heterogeneous cycles of colonization, dispossession, and resistance in Tucson, Arizona. Attending to the racial and racist violence that shapes this history, we consider how the devaluation of nonwhite territorial and economic relations consistently structures urban real estate markets, driving the ongoing displacement and dispossession of communities of color. Viewing the frontier as a structuring logic of racial capitalism (rather than a symbolic motif or metaphorical condition) helps to explain why these racial patterns of dispossession can be observed as a hallmark outcome of processes of gentrification in settler countries like the United States. Meanwhile, through our case study we show how grassroots actors already are using the language of settler colonialism as a framework for naming and analyzing those outcomes just described, indicating a need for greater theoretical work that engages with these grassroots framings and narratives.



中文翻译:

不仅仅是隐喻:定居者的殖民主义,边疆逻辑以及美国西南部城市种族化剥夺的连续性

人类地理学家长期以来一直在注意用来刺激投资并使北美城市中的掠夺性房地产投机正常化的殖民地比喻和边境假想。在本文中,我们借鉴了土著学者和定居者殖民主义理论家的见解,认为有必要超越类比地将“边境”仅仅当作一种论调或虚构的手段,并建议在像美国这样的定居者殖民地背景下,边界及其结构逻辑仍然是种族治理和资本积累的持续特征。为了发展这一论点,我们研究了亚利桑那州图森市殖民化,剥夺和抵抗的多个不同周期的家谱。参加塑造这一历史的种族和种族暴力,我们考虑非白人领土和经济关系的贬值如何一贯地构成城市房地产市场,从而推动有色社区的持续流离失所和剥夺。将边界视为种族资本主义的结构逻辑(而不是象征性主题或隐喻条件)有助于解释为什么这些剥夺种族模式可被视为美国等移民国家中绅士化进程的标志性结果。同时,通过我们的案例研究,我们显示了基层演员已经如何将定居者殖民主义的语言用作命名和分析刚刚描述的那些结果的框架,这表明需要更多的理论工作来与这些基层框架和叙事联系起来。

更新日期:2020-06-02
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