Editorial: Indigeneity and infrastructures of settler colonialism

The fields of Indigenous infrastructure research and critical studies in settler colonial infrastructures are rapidly expanding across much of the world. These complementary fields offer compelling ways of connecting disparate research concerns, enriching our understanding of the historical geographies of infrastructure in settler colonies. In Australia, various academic disciplines have engaged in what is often called the “infrastructural turn.” Yet research on the intersections of infrastructure and Indigenous histories and geographies remains limited. To be sure, Australian scholars have undertaken important research about Indigenous access to infrastructure, looking at infrastructural deficiencies and inequalities generated by the geographies and economies of Australian settler colonialism, where access to water, homes, and basic social infrastructure in Indigenous communities continues to lag far behind nonIndigenous Australians (Moskos et al., 2024). By and large, such work illustrates that Indigenous peoples continue to be marginalised in policy spaces where decisions are made about infrastructure developments on their land (Jackson, 2021; Lea, 2020; Norman et al., 2023).