Gendered carceral violence and struggles against environmental exploitation

性别监狱暴力和反对环境剥削的斗争

• 批准号: 2728888
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2728888
• 关键词: Gendered; carceral; violence; struggles; against

Ongoing conflict around expanding logging infrastructure at Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek in socalledBritish Columbia (BC), is a particularly relevant and pertinent site in which to explore theconceptual and methodological questions that interest me. Beginning around the Ada'itsx/FairyCreek watershed and spreading to nearby old growth sections of the rainforest, Indigenouscommunities and their allies have mobilized throughout the forests of Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, andPacheedaht territory (what is known as Vancouver Island, British Columbia) since early 2020. Inresponse to increasing and expanding old-growth logging in these territories, organizers haveblockaded logging roads to protect ancient forests in the face of an aggressive para-militaryresponse (Meisner, 2021). Despite formal declarations from local First Nations asserting theirsovereign rights to governance of their homelands, Supreme Court precedent acknowledgingaboriginal title, evidence demonstrating the fragility of biodiversity and ancient forests in BC, andample evidence of the correlation between the presence of industrial labour housing facilities or'man camps' and increased violence against Indigenous women in nearby communities, Teal Joneslogging company has been granted a court injunction to continue development (Meisner, 2021;MMIWG Report, 2019).Extractive development and mobilization at Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek provides a rich contextto ground my study of the entangled relationships between logging development corporations,settler-state policy related to extraction and conservation, the disciplinary enforcement of thispolicy, and circuits of global flows of investment and finance capital in Canada's resourceextractive industry. This case also provides analytical space to query the history of extractiveinfrastructure development in the settler-Canadian project, as well as the spatial dimensions of thedisciplinary and criminalizing logics that are produced at extractive sites. Logging developmentand resistance to this development provides a prism through which to explore how resourceextractive infrastructures organize and are organized by logics of ongoing Indigenousdispossession and genocide, patriarchal domination, capitalist exploitation, and carceral statepower (Cowen, 2020). The Ada'isx/Fairy Creek conflict also provides a space to explore the wayscontemporary resistance movements draw the aforementioned connections and demand redress thataccounts for these interconnections.Finally, a central dispute at this site regarding jusridiction, with respect to conservation andenvironmental governance, is a generative case in which to study how colonial notions of propertyanimate disputes at sites of contestation to extraction and shape the criminalization of resistance.Indigenous feminist thinkers remind me that colonization is not simply about stolen land, "butabout the creation of something called land that can then be stolen" (King et al., 2020, p.16). Thesethinkers draw connections between the history of colonial-capitalist conquest of land and naturalresources and the oppression, domination, and dehumanization of Black and Indigenous womenand gender queer communities in Canada (Simpson, 2014; Watts, 2015). This relationship in theliterature between heteropatriarchal oppression, ecological exploitation, and carceral state powerhighlights overlapping concerns between gender justice, abolition, land, and environmental justice.I want to think with these scholars, alongside critical Marxist, Black Studies, and climate justicescholars, to further explore how gendered logics of possession, ownership, and commodificationare embedded in and reproduced through extractive infrastructures, like those found at Ada'isx/Fairy Creek, driven by the aforementioned actors and processes to produce extractivelandscapes of gendered carceral domination (Todd, 2017; McKittrick, 2011).

在所谓的不列颠哥伦比亚（BC）的Ada'itxx/Fairy Creek，围绕着扩大伐木基础设施的持续冲突，是一个特别相关和相关的网站，可以探索我感兴趣的概念和方法问题。从Ada' itxx/Fairy Creek流域开始，蔓延到附近的热带雨林的老生长区，土著社区及其盟友已经动员起来，遍布Huu-ay-aht，Ditidaht，自二零二零年初起，本集团将于加拿大及太平洋地区（即不列颠哥伦比亚省的温哥华岛）经营业务。为了应对这些地区不断增加和扩大的原始森林砍伐，组织者封锁了伐木道路，以保护古老的森林，以应对侵略性的准军事反应（Meisner，2021）。尽管当地原住民正式声明维护他们对自己家园的治理主权，最高法院判例驳回了原住民的所有权，有证据表明不列颠哥伦比亚省生物多样性和古老森林的脆弱性，有充分的证据表明工业劳工住房设施或“男子营地”的存在与附近社区对土著妇女的暴力行为增加之间的相关性，Teal Joneslogging公司已被法院授予继续开发的禁令（Meisner，2021; MMIWG报告，2019年）。Ada'itxx/Fairy Creek的开采开发和动员为我研究伐木开发公司之间的复杂关系提供了丰富的背景，与开采和保护有关的定居者国家政策，该政策的纪律执行，以及加拿大资源开采业的全球投资和金融资本流动的回路。这一案例还提供了分析空间，以质疑移民-加拿大项目中采掘基础设施发展的历史，以及采掘现场产生的纪律和刑事定罪逻辑的空间维度。记录发展和对这种发展的抵制提供了一个棱镜，通过它来探索资源采掘基础设施如何组织，以及如何通过持续的土著剥夺和种族灭绝，父权制统治，资本主义剥削和监狱国家权力的逻辑组织起来（Cowen，2020）。Ada'isx/Fairy Creek冲突也提供了一个空间来探索当代抵抗运动如何绘制上述联系并要求补偿这些联系。最后，这个地点的一个核心争议是关于正义，关于保护和精神治理，是一个生成的情况下，研究如何殖民观念的财产激励争端的网站，以提取和塑造的抵抗的犯罪化。土著女权主义思想家提醒我，殖民化不仅仅是关于偷来的土地，“而是关于创造一种叫做土地的东西，然后可以被偷”（King et al.，2020，第16页）。这些思想家将殖民资本主义征服土地和自然资源的历史与加拿大黑人和土著妇女和性别酷儿社区的压迫，统治和非人化联系起来（Simpson，2014; Watts，2015）。在文学作品中，异父权制压迫、生态剥削和监狱国家权力之间的这种关系突出了性别正义、废除死刑、土地和环境正义之间的重叠问题。我想与这些学者一起思考，与批判的马克思主义者、黑人研究和气候正义学者一起，进一步探索占有、所有权和商品化的性别逻辑是如何嵌入并通过采掘性基础设施再现的，就像在Ada'isx/Fairy Creek发现的那些，由上述演员和过程驱动，以产生性别化的监狱统治的抽象景观（托德，2017;麦基特里克，2011）。