The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief existing infrastructural inequalities.
The unequal distribution of access to the resources and networks of care necessary for living has resulted in increased risk of exposure and vulnerability to death. This crisis has revealed a truth long articulated by activists and scholars: racism is a public health issue.
In the settler colony of Australia, calls to put an end to racialised policing and Black deaths in custody have grown louder, joining global protests demand the abolition of the carceral system and assert that Black Lives Matter.
These roundtable events will consider the politics of listening in the settler colony in relation to infrastructures of law, policing, and incarceration.
Convenor: Andrew Brooks