Work

The work crosses several subjects, but the divisions below are meant to help you find your way—not to suggest that the questions stay neatly separated.

Some pieces belong naturally to more than one area. Each work is placed where it is easiest to find and linked to related work where that helps.

Indigenous Governance & Return

Sovereignty, peoplehood, land, continuity, dispossession, repatriation, Indigenous knowledge, and the practical work of carrying collective life forward.

After Return: Why Capacity Does Not Create Authority in Indigenous Repatriation
Institutional judgment, support, and the power to decide.

A working essay on a basic institutional distinction: having greater capacity, expertise, or resources does not itself create the authority to decide what happens to Indigenous heritage.

Harm, Evidence, Property & Repair

How injuries become records, classifications, institutional judgments, property arrangements, and continuing consequences—and what repair must address when harm does not end with the original event.

Agency, Freedom & Ethics

Freedom, bodily authority, refusal, recognition, responsibility, ethical life, and the conditions under which people can genuinely choose and continue.

Answerability, Knowledge & Media

Evidence, inference, records, expertise, media, AI, public knowledge, correction, and the responsibilities that arise when claims are used to affect other people.

Political Economy & Public Return

Taxes, wealth, work, public capacity, economic institutions, and how material systems distribute burdens, opportunities, security, and the ability to act.

Aesthetics & Art

Art-status, legitimacy, artistic authority, creation, encounter, interpretation, and the relationships through which something becomes art.

External Case Studies

Difficult real-world cases used to test whether the ideas and methods hold up outside the settings in which they were developed.

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