Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese
Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese are the Chief Investigators of the Deathscapes Project funded by the ARC from 2016-2020. Suvendrini Perera is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Curtin University and Joseph Pugliese is a Professor in the Department of Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University
Recent articles by Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese
25 October 2023
The racial contract of settler colonialism
On 20 October 2023, an Aboriginal teenager died in custody in Perth, Western Australia. Cleveland Dodd, 16-years-old, was found unresponsive in his cell in Casurina maximum security prison security prison. On 21 October 2023, a Palestinian mother, Alaa, and her three children, Eman (6), Faiz (5) and 7-month-old Sara, were killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza. It was Faizs fifth birthday.What is the connective thread between these disparate events?