Media Futures Hub and Infrastructural Inequalities co-present Media, Archives, Infrastructure: In conversation with Ethan Blue. The conversation will focus on Blue’s recently published book The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press). The conversation will be facilitated by Dr Astrid Lorange (Art & Design) and Dr Andrew Brooks (Arts & Media) and will consider how an infrastructural approach to understanding statecraft, racism, and carcerality offers a particular perspective on doing history and studying the present. The conversation is open to all and will followed by a brief Q&A with the audience.
Ethan Blue was raised on Coast Miwok land in Northern California and currently lives on unceded Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Western Australia. He is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia, with research interests at the intersection of critical prison studies and histories of immigration, capitalism, and settler colonialism.
Blue’s monographs and edited volumes include the sole-authored Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons (New York University Press, 2012), the co-authored Engineering and War (Morgan and Claypool, 2014), and the special issue Radical History Review: Punishment and Death: The Need for Radical Analysis (2006). His most recent book is The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021).
Blue’s writings have appeared in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals, including Pacific Historical Review; Journal of Social History; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; Humanities Research; Journal of American Ethnic History; Bad Subjects; National Identities; Leonardo, and Settler Colonial Studies.
When: Tuesday, 26 October, 12pm–1:30pm (Sydney time)
Where: Via Zoom (Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86876498290)
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