Joseph Pugliese Joseph Pugliese i(A23705 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Italian
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1 y separately published work icon Deathscapes : Mapping Race and Violence in Settler States Suvendrini Perera , Joseph Pugliese , Australia Canada : 2017- 17701960 2017 website

'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.

1 Afterword Joseph Pugliese , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 15 no. 3 2015;
'At the water’s edge, the ship’s flank is seared open. Wielding acetylene torches, the labourers carve up a ship’s carcass. Rivets pop as the steel melts and yields to the focused flame that tears at its seams. In this graveyard at the water’s edge of Colombo harbour, the ebb and flow of tides bear witness to these processes of systematic dismemberment. This is the scene that opens Suvendrini Perera’s uncompromising analysis of the practices of violence that inscribe the end-journeys of refugees desperately seeking sanctuary as they flee the various hells that make life in their countries of origin unlivable. This scene graphically captures the elemental polarities that bookend Perera’s profoundly moving essay on refugees, diasporic dispersals, urgent flights and failed arrivals: fire and water, life and death. ' (Author's introduction)
1 White Law of the Biopolitical Suvendrini Perera , Joseph Pugliese , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia , vol. 3 no. 1 2012; (p. 87-100)
'Drawing on Ruby Langford Ginibi's writings on the law throughout the 1990s we discuss how law, as an apparatus of biopolitical governmentality, frames, positions and inscribes the very sites, institutions and bodies essential to the reproduction of Australia as a racialised nation-state. The paper builds on the collective work we have done for over a decade in documenting how whiteness enmeshes with law in securing and reproducing colonial and racist forms of biopower, and its effects on the embodied subjects who are its targets: the scandal of the Tampa; the horrors of refugee suicide and self-harm in immigration prisons; the Cronulla race riots; the continuing attempts to extinguish Indigenous sovereignty; the fomenting of Islamophobia and the normalising of racial profiling; the violence of the Northern Territory Intervention; and escalating Aboriginal deaths in and out of custody. Our paper focuses on a number of current crises that evidence only too clearly the violences unleashed and licensed by white laws of the biopolitical.' (Authors abstract)
1 Embodied Archives Joseph Pugliese , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , Special Issue vol. 11 no. 1 2011; (p. 1-6)
'In a profound meditation on the complex genre of autobiography, W.E.B. Du Bois, toward the end of his extraordinary life, wrote: 'What I think of myself, now and in the past, furnishes no certain documents proving what I really am. Mostly my life today is a mass of memories with vast omissions, matters which are forgotten accidentally or by deep design' (cited in Sundquist 3). Situated in the context of Du Bois' haunting meditation on loss, memory gaps and historical omissions, I want to ask the following question: What if some of these vast omissions, forgotten accidentally or because of the violent historicidal forces of assimilation, were recuperable through the staging of an archaeology of one's body, through the reflexive examination of the self as repository of so many dense cultural sedimentations and as archive of accumulated histories and practices? The question, then, that I want to pose in the course of this paper is: In what ways may our lived bodies be seen as living, corporeal archives, repositories of historical practices and inventories of almost invisible traces?' (Author's abstract)
1 y separately published work icon Transmediterranean : Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces Joseph Pugliese (editor), New York (City) : P. I. E. Peter Lang , 2010 Z1812620 2010 anthology criticism
1 Diasporic Architecture, Whiteness and the Cultural Politics of Space : In the Footsteps of the Italian Forum Joseph Pugliese , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Constellations of the Transnational : Modernity, Culture, Critique 2007; (p. 23-50)
1 'Fighting with Our Tongues' : The Politics of Genre in Aboriginal Oral Histories Joseph Pugliese , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Oral History Review , vol. 28 no. 2 2001; (p. 85-99)
1 Wogface, Anglo-Drag, Contested Aboriginalities... Making and Unmaking Identities in Australia Suvendrini Perera , Joseph Pugliese , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Social Identities , vol. 4 no. 1 1998; (p. 39-72)
1 Assimilation, Unspeakable Traces and the Ontologies of Nation Joseph Pugliese , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 14 no. 2 1995; (p. 229-254)
1 The Triangulated Tropics of Australian Colonialism Joseph Pugliese , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Winter South no. 24 1992; (p. 23-40)
1 Race, Racism and Representation Joseph Pugliese , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Span , February no. 31 1991; (p. 111-115)

— Review of Fear and Temptation : The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures Terry Goldie , 1989 single work criticism
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