In episode 7 Carly speaks with Anna Carlson who is a cofounder and organiser of the Brisbane Free University, co-host of 4zzz's Radio Reversal and a freelance radio producer, illustrator, writer and community (dis)organiser. She is mid way through her PhD, supervised by Dr. Alissa Macoun, Associate Professor Chelsea Bond, Dr. Liz Strakosh, and Dr. David Singh. Her research examines the relationship between surveillance and colonial governance in (so-called) Brisbane, focusing on how surveillance functions to produce and maintain settler colonial regimes of possession, ownership and belonging. Anna is a white settler currently based on Yuggera country, and committed to finding ethical paths between colonial complicity, accountability, solidarity and resistance.
Some texts that Anna mentions in our conversation, or that have framed her thinking around colonialism & surveillance:
Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2015) The White Possessive
Simone Browne (2015) Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Stuart Hall et al (2013) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the state and law and order (2nd Edition)
Natalie Harkin (2019) Archival Poetics
Alison Whittaker (2018) blakwork
Chelsea Bond (forthcoming) Another Day in the Colony
Elia Zureik, David Lyon, and Yasmeen Abu-Laban (Eds) (2010) Surveillance & Control in Israel/Palestine
Amy McQuire (2019) "Black and White Witness", Meanjin
Alison Whittaker (2018) 'White Law, Blak Arbiters, Grey Legal Subjects: Deep Colonisation's Role and Impact in Defining Aboriginality at Law', Australian Indigenous Law Review (20)
Evelyn Araluen Corr (2018) "Silence and Resistance: Aboriginal Women working within or against the archive", Continuum
Ruth Wilson Gilmore & James Kilgore (2015) "The Case for Abolition": https://www.
Podcasts:
Let's Talk (with the Academics) (On race, health and responsibility in the colony): https://989fm.com.au/
Nick Estes (2018) "Native Resistance and the Carceral State: Rustbelt Abolition Radio": https://rustbeltradio.
