'This collection of case studies is unique in scope and invigorating in its complexity, vibrant terrain indeed. It opens new conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and with the earth, water, atmosphere, and other animals, in their entangled histories. It is compelling and affecting.
The consequences of the global omission of the experiences and knowledge of Indigenous peoples are poignantly documented, as are the exclusions of racialised sovereignty and far-reaching patterns of gendered violence. Here, though, Indigenous perspectives drive analysis. There are furious stories about capitalist exploitation, colonial dispossession and environmental destruction, but also re-storying of those that reveal the genius of resistance by humans in concert with the more-than-human.
Writing with Country is animated by ‘future ancestors’ in Wahine resistance in Aotearoa. In Munyama Forest in Central Zambia, the co-resistance of humans, ‘livid spirits’, and ‘earthly elements’ reworks oppressive state power. In Australia, on the banks of Goolay’yari, mangroves gather and hold life, affording ecological alternatives to the borders of colonial dispossession and environmental havoc.
Dineo Seshee Bopape’s art reworks the liveliness of the earth, summoning humans as kin, co-resisters of environmental degradation and colonial sovereignty. On the post-disaster coast of Arahama, Japan, a skate park is constructed in a tsunami-ravaged home, fostering collective resilience, bodily joy and interrelationship with the power of the ocean.
Critical attention to infrastructure is a stand-out quality of this collection. From the infrastructures of neglect in Australia to the infrastructural damage and dispossession of the Standing Rock Sioux in the laying of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the sometimes-rotten core of democratic provision of infrastructure is exposed. In Canada, infrastructures of ‘gore’, racialised and gendered domination, succeed but also fail. They are challenged by infrastructures of care oriented – like this book – to the ‘mutual well-being’ of all and the possibility of differently dwelling together.'
– Dr Penelope Rossiter, Western Sydney University

Environments of power: Foreword - Susan Stryker

Introduction: Vibrant terrain - Holly Randell-Moon

Section 1: Environments of power
1 Omission as a contemporary effort to oppress Indigenous peoples globally - Julisa J. Lopez, Jenny Yang, Arianne E. Eason, Laura M. Brady and Stephanie A. Fryberg
2 Vibrant terrain and more-than-human struggles for Indigenous autonomy: stories of/from a hybrid world - Linus A. Rosén
3 Environments of power: Protectionism, infrastructure, and biopower in Australia - Holly Randell-Moon
4 The environmental politics of ruins in post-disaster Arahama, Tohoku, Japan – Josh Trichilo
Intercalary chapter one: movement in place - Holly Randell-Moon

Section 2: Environmental techne
5 Standing Rock water protectors, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and assemblages of settler violence - Joseph Pugliese
6 ‘Outstaying your welcome’: A biopolitical analysis of the 1970s Dawn Raids in Aotearoa, New Zealand - Pounamu Jade Aikman
7 Search the landfill, bring them home! Unsettling infrastructural gore and the disposability of Indigenous life in Winnipeg, Canada - Deanna Zantingh
8 Power, resistance, and the politics of addressing violence against women and girls in India in the digital era - Sreejani Sanyal and Andrea Baker
Intercalary chapter two: moved by place - Holly Randell-Moon

Section 3: Landscapes of resistance
9 Revolution and reciprocity: Pan-African feminism in Dineo Seshee Bopape’s Earth honouring practices - Alexandra Moore
10 Walls, power, rest, and resistance - Kate Judith
11 Kai Tahu whenua, Kai Tahu wahine: An Indigenous lens of relationships to land and wahine herstories- Kerri Cleaver

Conclusion: Landscapes of resistance- Holly Randell-Moon