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Professor Joseph Pugliese, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
KEY RESEARCH AREAS: Social justice-understood in the most expansive sense so that it includes the more-than-human world, is the superordinate term that encompasses my research. Under this meta-rubric, my key fields of research are: colonialism and decolonisation; state violence; more-than-human ecologies; race, whiteness and ethnicity.
Selected publications include the edited collection TransMediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces (Peter Lang, 2010) and the monograph Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010) which was short-listed for the international Surveillance Studies Book Prize 2010. The monograph State Violence and the Execution of Law: Biopolitical Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2013) was nominated for the UK’s Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2013, the US’ Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize 2013; it was awarded the MQ Faculty of Arts Research Excellence Award 2013 and it received High Commendation in the MQ Research Excellence Awards 2014 and 2015. With Professor Suvendrini Perera, he was a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded transnational project, Deathscapes, on racialized state violence in settler societies. Deathscapes was shorlisted for the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Work Prize 2019. With Suvendrini Perera, he co-edited Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence (Routledge 2022).
His book, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Duke University Press, 2020), was awarded the IHR/ASU Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award 2022, presented by the Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University, USA: “Established in 2008, the annual award celebrates outstanding writers whose contributions to the humanities change the conversation by fostering new directions for their discipline.”
His most recent book is More-Than-Human Diasporas: Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery (Routledge, 2025).
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Deathscapes: Mapping Race and Violence in Settler States
Pugliese, J., Perera, S., Razack, S., Inda, J. & Franklin, M.
24/05/16 → …
Project: Research
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Macquarie University Centre for Agency Values and Ethics (CAVE)
Mackenzie, C., Rogers, W., Meyerson, D., Kennett, J., Menary, R., Barrow, A., Bernal-Pulido, C., Deranty, J., Downey, G., Faulkner, J., Formosa, P., Hochman, A., Hutchison, K., Johnson, J., Levy, N., Lipworth, W., Lotz, M., Pugliese, J., Ross, R., Rossmanith, K., Schier, E., Sinnerbrink, R., Smith, N., Sorial, S., Sutton, J., Voyce, M., Gleeson, K. & MacDermott, T.
1/01/20 → 1/01/22
Project: Research
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State Violence and the Execution of Law: Torture, Black Sites, Drones
1/02/12 → 31/07/12
Project: Research
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More-Than-Human diasporas: topologies of empire, settler colonialism, slavery
Pugliese, J., 2025, London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 282 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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(De)constituting settler subjects: a retrospective critical race-decolonising account
Pugliese, J., 2024, Critical racial and decolonial literacies: breaking the silence. Bargallie, D. & Fernando, N. (eds.). Bristol: Bristol University Press, p. 62-75 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Europe, Gaza and the spectre of settler colonialism
Perera, S. & Pugliese, J., 20 May 2024, Overland.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
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The Incantatory Power of Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Launch of Debbie Bargallie and Nilmini Fernando (eds.), Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies: Breaking the Silence (Bristol: Bristol University Press)
Pugliese, J., 19 Sept 2024, In: Journal of Global Indigeneity. 8, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
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Edifying: the Deathscapes Project and the landscape of settler-colonial monumentality in Australia
Perera, S. & Pugliese, J., Jul 2023, The Palgrave handbook on rethinking colonial commemorations. Carlson, B. & Farrelly, T. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 461-484 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Activities
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Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence
Ian Collinson (Speaker) & Joseph Pugliese (Invited speaker)
6 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
Press/Media
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Entangled Histories from a Tense Past: The Art of Julie Gough
10/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment
26/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Social Justice work of Uncle Ray Jackson
23/04/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities