Leakage as resistance along Cooks River

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Judith, Kate. 2021. "Leakage as resistance along Cooks River." 2021 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting: Leaky Ontologies. United States 08 - 11 Apr 2021 United States.
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Leakage as resistance along Cooks River

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AuthorJudith, Kate
Year2021
Place of PublicationUnited States
Conference/Event2021 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting: Leaky Ontologies
Event Details
2021 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting: Leaky Ontologies
Delivery
Online
Event Date
08 to end of 11 Apr 2021
Event Location
United States
Abstract

The human urge for fluvial efficiency is a desire that partners dreams of human mastery, of colonial resource stripping, of entitlement. Leakage is becoming a tragic euphemism for the meagre seepages that escape the various forms of infrastructural, legal and political plumbing that channel the wealth and goodness of the planet along the same routes as global economic wealth. Increasingly, leakage is what is available for all the rest of life on Earth. When leakage is assumed as a problem to plug, it is important to question whom it is assumed these flows should be directed towards. Once this channelling is probematised, leakage can be repositioned as a site of resistance against assumptions of human exceptionalism. The Cooks River in Sydney, named after Captain James Cook, who identified the low-lying swampy country of the Wangal, Gadigal and Gameygal people as ideal for British colonial settlement, was dammed, dredged, and edged in hard embankments through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The floristically rich swamp became simplified into a drain for removing waste and riverbanks that could be developed into urban land uses. This paper will follow the story of Cooks River drainage that diverted the abundance of the region into narrow channels flowing towards capital. It will explore leakage along the river as resistance and consider how these leakages are assisting decolonising efforts.

Keywordspostcolonial, Sydney, Cooks River, mangroves, leakage
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470213. Postcolonial studies
500321. Social and political philosophy
440404. Political economy and social change
Byline AffiliationsUniversity of New South Wales
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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