First Nations foundations: cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The infrastructuring of First Nations land into cities is a central project of settler colonisa- tion. In the lands now known as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, settler-colonial myths of \u2018uncultivated\u2019 territory justified English invasion and settlement. These myths continue to inform contemporary infrastructure development and discourse which resist First Nations\u2019 sovereignties and self-determination even as the latter unsettles settler-colonial infrastructuring. This chapter offers a predominantly theoretical account of how urban infrastructuring is a constitutive feature of settler colonisation and how settler-colonial urban imaginaries construct both urbanisation and infrastructure as non-Indigenous.<\/p>\n Speaker<\/strong>: Holly Randell-Moon<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University<\/p>\n Holly is a non-Indigenous researcher and Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia. She uses critical race and whiteness studies theories to situate her Anglo-Celtic family and settler ancestors within the social and built landscapes of settler colonisation. Along with Ryan Tippet, she is the editor of\u00a0Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality<\/em>\u00a0(2016). She edits\u00a0Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n *The link will be sent to you after your registration<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/UO15-112a-200x300.jpg\")
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