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<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hoping you are all well! I've attached below some information about my upcoming MTR presentation, which may be of interest. Tena, haramai (do come if you can!). :) </span></font> </div>
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Title:</b></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"> Terra in our Mist: A Terra-torial Ethnography
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Date: </b></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;">9 November 2017, 10-12</span></font></span></font></div>
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Ellison Room, 2nd floor, ANU College of Law</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ten years ago, the paramilitary wing of the New Zealand Police conducted simultaneous ‘anti-terror’ raids throughout
Aotearoa New Zealand, targeting Maori sovereignty activists. Codenamed ‘Operation 8’, the largest police presence was centralised in the Ruatoki Valley, in Te Urewera (in the upper North Island), where dozens of black-clad weapon-wielding troopers raided homes,
searched vehicles, and illegally detained families. Te Urewera is the ancestral home of Ngai Tuhoe, the ‘People of the Mist’, who have long fought for their self-determination in the face of settler colonial violence. In the decade since 2007, equally violent
paramilitary raids have continued to target the Ruatoki Valley. In each case, however, the Police have relied upon inaccurate intelligence, which has led to a litany of hastily executed raids upon physically incorrect addresses: “‘Wrong car, wrong house’,
was all they said, and then they just pissed off”, describes a grandmother whose family homestead was raided in 2014. The propensity to act, without hesitation, upon compromised, unverified intelligence, is revealing. Since their earliest encounters with British
emissaries in the nineteenth century, Tuhoe have been repeatedly depicted as an ‘isolated’, ‘primitive’ and ‘non-human’ Other. The Tuhoe body remains indelibly inscribed with these distorted representations, and I stipulate that this discursive infrastructure
remains central to the operational logic behind demonstrations of state violence against Tuhoe, exemplified through the raids of the last decade. More broadly, I suggest that the raids typify what Irene Watson (2009) describes as ‘re-enactments of originary
violence’, where the existential legitimacy of the state is reinforced through periodic displays of overwhelming force. In this light, Operation 8, and the subsequent raids upon Tuhoe, cannot be considered aberrations of Police procedure – as is sometimes
claimed – but instead as nominal functions of the settler colonial state in the twenty-first century.</span></font></span></font></div>
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