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... early nineteenth century weather data observers territorial claims Haudenosaunee Confederacy Lenape ...

... Chapter 1 explores an early nineteenth-century regional network of newly named “weather observers” across the northeastern United States and the ways in which this network utilized weather measurement to uphold settler claims to territory and build archives of settler environmental knowledge...

..., and the street tough cuts an ambivalent figure, subordinating the territorial community from within while claiming to protect it from outsiders. The chapter argues that to understand Indonesian vigilantism, it is necessary to situate it within the context of these fears and the forms of territorial authority...

... cuts an ambivalent figure, subordinating the territorial community from within while claiming to protect it from outsiders. The chapter argues that to understand Indonesian vigilantism, it is necessary to situate it within the context of these fears and the forms of territorial authority that animate...

... in the very bureaucratic operations that have been mobilized by the state to prevent it. She demonstrates that citizenship adjudication procedures rely on a fiction of the territorialized state that has never been achieved in the highlands, yet which serves as the standard of “truth” against which stateless...

... This chapter rereads Detroit's history of postwar decline from the vantage point of how radical activists staked claims to urban space. The chapter examines how the 1967 rebellion in Detroit—which erupted in a geopolitical context overdetermined by Cold War anxiety and global movements...

... exploitation and to build up transportation infrastructure for national and international commerce also generated friction with local indigenous communities claiming their own territorial rights, as seen in the conflict over the Isiboro-Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory ( tipnis...

... Chapter 3 starts with a conversation between the author and two of her Indigenous colleagues on a remote beach in the Northern Territory of Australia after the discovery of the rib cage of a durlgmö (a plesiosaurus). The chapter uses this and other personal and aesthetic encounters with fossils...

... main through-lines. As the introduction discusses, settler institutions played a critical role in promoting white supremacy, entrenching existing power hierarchies, and removing Indian people from white Americans’ claimed territory—patterns that continue to play out in the America of today...

... This chapter sets out the book’s main claims and outlines its theoretical vocabulary. It explores why undersea cables have remained absent in media and communications studies and in public perception. Arguing that a new mode of visibility is needed for cable systems, the chapter delineates...

... This chapter examines recent creditor litigation against Argentina to show that the expansion of US judicial territory has continued in the twenty-first century, with US courts now claiming more authority than ever before—including, in this case, over the entire world except Argentina...

... analyze Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Mediterranean play with a focus on the abduction of the Indian boy. Focusing on Oberon’s abduction of the boy in the Mediterranean zone around Athens, I scrutinize the homoerotic dynamics of territorial domination created via the racialized boy. I put...

... In the Andean highlands, there were as many different origin myths as there were native peoples. Each ethnic group sought to establish its importance through such stories, by claiming to be the first people to appear in the world. Many accounts told of primordial ancestors emerging from local...

... The valley of Cochabamba was perhaps the richest agricultural region in the highland Andes before the Spanish conquest. One of the most revealing sources for understanding Inka systems of territorial control and demographic relocation comes from a legal dispute in 1556 between the caciques...

... by the state to prevent it. She demonstrates that citizenship adjudication procedures rely on a fiction of the territorialized state that has never been achieved in the highlands, yet which serves as the standard of “truth” against which stateless highlanders must prove their claims to belong...

... proposes that early modern representations of territory conceptualized cross-cultural spaces as embodied by the beautiful boy, who evokes a terrestrial competition between men that is loaded with cross-religious desire. In doing so, it also calls into question the traditional trope of the land-as-female...

... This chapter analyzes the competing racial geographies of the United States and Mexico in the newly annexed territory. Mexican Americans challenged Jim Crow segregation in the Southwest through naturalization, segregation, and discrimination cases brought between 1897 and 1954. The mestizo...

... American Civilization —the chapter demonstrates how James managed competing claims to his national, political, and affective inclinations by mediating his attachments through the bodies of performers—particularly West Indian cricketers and American actresses. It demonstrates the centrality of James’s...