Author Archives: Simon Barber

Property values: the enclosure of Aotearoa New Zealand

By Simon Barber 7 September 2023 Keynote

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By inscribing the notion of property across Aotearoa New Zealand, settler colonialism continues to violently subsume Indigenous modes of life

Cattle and colonialism: the animals that built Sydney

8 February 2022 By Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

Runaway herds of cattle shaped the progress of the British colonisation of Australia, where…

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Foundations of empire: the colonial legacy of Portland stone

7 April 2022 By Arianne Shahvisi

Buildings and statues carved from Portland stone were used to construct an…

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Outrage: colonial legacies of concrete

14 April 2022 By Mohamed Ismail and Caitlin Mueller

Recognise concrete’s colonial legacies before condemning its use in the Global South

AR Reading List 064: empire and coloniality

4 June 2022 By AR Editors

The latest instalment of our series of AR Reading Lists: seven carefully…

Colonial settlement of Fremantle, depicted by Philip Chauncy

Unceded land, unpublic use: settler colonial construction on stolen land

28 July 2022 By Timmah Ball

The settler colonial construction of public space is contested in the context…

Editorial: no trespassing

6 September 2023 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

For its September issue, the AR ventures onto private property

Folio: Stop Hoarding Housing by Darren Cullen

6 September 2023 By AR Editors

A ‘subvertisement’ takes aim at the private rental sector

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