Book Reviews by Tina Grandinetti
Journal of Human Geography, 2012
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Australian Geographer , 2020
Urban greening is a buzz term in urban policy and research settings in Australia and elsewhere. I... more Urban greening is a buzz term in urban policy and research settings in Australia and elsewhere. In a context of settler colonial urbanism, like Australia, a first fact becomes clear: urban greening is always being practiced on unceded Indigenous lands. Recognising this requires some honest reckoning with how this latest urban policy response perpetuates dispossessory settler-colonial structures. In
this paper, we listen to the place-based ontologies of the peoples and lands from where we write to inform understanding the city as an always already Indigenous place – a sovereign Aboriginal City. In so doing, the paper tries to practice a way of creating more truthful and response-able urban knowledge practices. We analyse three distinct areas of scholarly research that are present in the contemporary literature: urban greening and green
infrastructure; urban political ecology; and more-than human cities. When placed in relationship of learning with the sovereign Aboriginal City, our analysis finds that these scholarly domains of urban greening work to re-organise colonial power relations. The paper considers what work the practice and scholarship of ‘urban greening’ might need to do in order to become response-able and learn to learn with Indigenous sovereignties and ontologies.
Critical Ethnic Studies, 2019
We are members of Women's Voices Women Speak (WVWS) Hawai'i, a multiethnic collective from the is... more We are members of Women's Voices Women Speak (WVWS) Hawai'i, a multiethnic collective from the island of O'ahu that works across differences to practice solidarity against militarism by (1) Revisiting and decolonizing our histories of plantation solidarity that obscure ongoing settler colonial violence, (2) Confronting the current international configurations of militarism in the Pacific, and (3) Engaging in huaka'i (journeys) to reconnect to 'āina (land as elder) in Hawai'i and in our ancestral places, as a methodology to decolonize/demilitarize solidarity between Kānaka Maoli and immigrant/settlers. This ‘āina-centered framework of solidarity asks us to consider our positionality through our relationship to distinct lands and the responsibilities that we have to them and to each other. This model of solidarity informed our journey as delegates to the International Network of Women Against Militarism (IWNAM) gathering in Okinawa in 2017 where we confronted the transnational workings of militarization in the Pacific.
Settler Colonial Studies, 2018
This essay critically examines the relationship between capitalism, development, and settler colo... more This essay critically examines the relationship between capitalism, development, and settler colonialism using Kakaʻako, an urban district of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, as a case study. Given that Kakaʻako’s luxury development boom is occurring in conjunction with a severe cost-of-living crisis, I argue that the corporate-driven renewal of Kakaʻako constitutes a settler colonial project of erasure and accumulation through Indigenous dispossession. Crucially, the participation of Indigenous landowning entities in Kakaʻako’s redevelopment highlights the need to understand how capitalist exploitation can operate across the settler-native binary through the deployment of a worldview that renders land a commodity. In contrast, the Kanaka Maoli worldview understands land as ʻāina - that which feeds. This understanding undergirds calls for aloha ʻāina, a relationship of responsibility and respect between the land and its people. In rural spaces, aloha ʻāina has been enacted as resistance against colonialism and development, but settler spatial regimes have largely been successful in framing
Honolulu as ‘settled’ space. I argue that when exercised in the city, aloha ʻāina provides a historically situated, place-based, and radical framework for urban spatial justice.
This article examines the neoliberal promotion of the idea of a Palestinian “middle class” that c... more This article examines the neoliberal promotion of the idea of a Palestinian “middle class” that can lead to peace by transcending perceived Arab backwardness or irrationality through market logic and capitalist reasoning. The Palestinian city of Rawabi is used as a case study, as it is marketed as a middle-class city built with support from both Israeli and Arab businesses and as a project that will “eliminate radicals on both sides.” An analysis of the marketing rhetoric of Rawabi provides insight into the political and cultural subjectivities being articulated by this new middle class. Ultimately, while the middle-class ethos being cultivated by Rawabi views neoliberal capitalism and consumerism as a sign of modernity and a new form of resistance, it operates to depoliticize economic development under occupation, preclude alternative models for “resistance” economies, and make the occupation less costly, or even profitable, to Israeli and Palestinian elite.
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Book Reviews by Tina Grandinetti
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this paper, we listen to the place-based ontologies of the peoples and lands from where we write to inform understanding the city as an always already Indigenous place – a sovereign Aboriginal City. In so doing, the paper tries to practice a way of creating more truthful and response-able urban knowledge practices. We analyse three distinct areas of scholarly research that are present in the contemporary literature: urban greening and green
infrastructure; urban political ecology; and more-than human cities. When placed in relationship of learning with the sovereign Aboriginal City, our analysis finds that these scholarly domains of urban greening work to re-organise colonial power relations. The paper considers what work the practice and scholarship of ‘urban greening’ might need to do in order to become response-able and learn to learn with Indigenous sovereignties and ontologies.
Honolulu as ‘settled’ space. I argue that when exercised in the city, aloha ʻāina provides a historically situated, place-based, and radical framework for urban spatial justice.
this paper, we listen to the place-based ontologies of the peoples and lands from where we write to inform understanding the city as an always already Indigenous place – a sovereign Aboriginal City. In so doing, the paper tries to practice a way of creating more truthful and response-able urban knowledge practices. We analyse three distinct areas of scholarly research that are present in the contemporary literature: urban greening and green
infrastructure; urban political ecology; and more-than human cities. When placed in relationship of learning with the sovereign Aboriginal City, our analysis finds that these scholarly domains of urban greening work to re-organise colonial power relations. The paper considers what work the practice and scholarship of ‘urban greening’ might need to do in order to become response-able and learn to learn with Indigenous sovereignties and ontologies.
Honolulu as ‘settled’ space. I argue that when exercised in the city, aloha ʻāina provides a historically situated, place-based, and radical framework for urban spatial justice.