Law as Infrastructure of Colonial Space: Sketches from Turtle Island

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چکیده

Heraclitus's words remind us that law and infrastructure have lived in intimate relation, practice thought, for millennia. This intimacy is palpable the context of settler worldmaking where colonial jurisdiction enacted by constraining, with an eye to replacing, Indigenous jurisdiction. Here, authority often asserted through violent attempts control connectivity movement. To this day, imperial powers assert over space infrastructures enhance or inhibit motion goods people, like railroads, pipelines, border walls, police. 2 Essay investigates co-production on Turtle Island—an name continent North America, which already highlights a different conception its anchor creation stories. The brief sketches follow emphasize co-constitution infrastructure, yet they also propose relationship exceeds proximity metaphor. Law operates ordering extension, sense, can productively be thought infrastructurally, as “the movement patterning social form.” 3 argues approaching infrastructurally foregrounds contingency seemingly solid structures, including centrally

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: AJIL unbound

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2398-7723']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2022.70