'With the ultimate aim of ending deaths in custody, the Deathscapes project maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres, working across the settler states of Australia, the US and Canada, as well as the UK/EU as historical sites of origin for these settler colonial states.
'It presents new understandings of the practices and technologies, both global and domestic, that enable state violence against racialized groups in settler states. Within the violent frame of the settler colonial state, centred on Indigenous deaths as a form of ongoing clearing of the land, the deaths of other racialized bodies within the nation and at its borders–including Black, migrant and refugee deaths–reaffirm the assertion of settler sovereignty.
'To focus on Indigenous deaths and other racialized deaths is not to collapse the differences between racialized groups, or to ignore the presence of other racialized populations in these states, but to address some of the shared strategies, policies, practices and rationales of state violence deployed in the management of these separate categories.'
Source: Deathscapes.
Chief Investigators:
Professor Suvendrini Perera, Curtin University
Professor Joseph Pugliese, Macquarie University
Partner Investigators:
Professor Marianne Franklin, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professor Jonathan Inda, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Researchers:
Michelle Bui, Curtin University
Pilar Kasat, Curtin University (2018)
Beatriz Maldonado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ayman Qwaider, Curtin University
Charandev Singh, Indigenous Social Justice Association
Dr Raed Yacoub, Goldsmiths, University of London
Project Manager:
Dr Dean Chan, Curtin University
