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‘Then what are you doing here?’ political theories of settler colonialism Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Adam Dahl
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Tracing settler state responsibility for structural harm: Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case on First Nations child welfare Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Hanna Rask
This article discusses ideas of causation and responsibility for long-term, structural harm perpetuated through settler colonial institutions. Examining the case of a human rights complaint over di...
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Marketing the mountain man in Wyoming: settler memory, cosplay, and conservative fantasy Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Nancy D. Wadsworth
This paper investigates the mountain man as a historical icon that illuminates how settler memory reverberates in the Rocky Mountain West and helps construct regional expressions of conservative po...
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Editor’s note Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Janne Lahti
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2024)
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The search for a promised land: three settlement plans, three agents, and three handbooks for Icelandic migrant-settlers from 1875 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jay L. Lalonde
The nineteenth century was a time of mass migration from Europe to North America, and in the last quarter of the century, Icelanders joined the flow of European settlers. Icelanders were one of the...
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The limits of belonging Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-05 T.J. Tallie
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The continuity of settler colonial narratives: the diary of a nineteenth-century dominion land surveyor and the enduring language of harm Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Daniel Rück
This article analyzes the writings of a prominent Canadian nineteenth-century land surveyor and scientist to show the continuity of settler colonial narratives from his time until ours. As a Domini...
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Response to roundtable Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Alaina Roberts
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Attending to settler colonialism in Black/Native American histories in I've been Here All the While Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Jenny L. Davis
In I've Been Here All the While, Roberts provides a definition of settler colonialism as ‘a process that could be wielded by whoever sought to claim land; it involved not only a change in land occu...
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Where the personal intersects with the political Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Hilary Green
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Holding space in colonial settler histories: book forum on Alaina E. Roberts’ I’ve been here all the while: Black freedom on native land (2021) Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Antoinette Burton
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Review essay: children and settler colonialism Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Shurlee Swain
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 13, No. 4, 2023)
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Displacement, colonization, and domestic work: children’s institutions and German imperial settlement in the Polish territories of Prussia around 1900 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Roii Ball
Around 1900, Imperial Germany pursued expansion abroad and internal consolidation within its continental borders. Facing a resolute Polish national movement, Prussia, the dominant German power, sou...
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Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts: a trans-imperial perspective Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Felicity Jensz, Rebecca Swartz
Children in settler colonial settings engaged with institutions in diverse ways. They were sometimes coerced, benignly encouraged or lured into these engagements and sometimes they actively engaged...
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‘Daisyfield in the crucible’: Afrikaners, education and poor whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 George Bishi, Duncan Money
This article examines the history of Daisyfield School, an Afrikaner children's orphanage and school in Southern Rhodesia. The existence of an Afrikaner school in a self-consciously British settler...
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‘On this project depends the glory of Palestine’: childhood and modern futures at the Ramallah clinic Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Julia R. Shatz
In 1925, one of the first infant welfare clinics to specifically serve Arab children in Palestine opened in the city of Ramallah. This article examines how that institution brought together various...
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Settler colonial expansion and the institutionalisation of children in Victoria, Australia Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nell Musgrove
Recent histories have underlined the importance of understanding the nineteenth-century gold rushes which took place in various parts of the anglophone world in relation to settler colonialism, and...
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Indigenous sport nationalism, settler borders, and (in)convenient solutions: media framing of the 2010 Iroquois Nationals passport dispute Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Chen Chen, Dan Mason
This study examines mainstream media coverage of the Iroquois Nationals’ withdrawal from the 2010 men’s World Lacrosse Championship as a result of failing to meet the requirements of US and UK immi...
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Colonial legislations, intrinsic paradoxes: the criminal prohibition against bigamy and the exemption of Muslims in mandatory Palestine Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Rawia Aburabia
This article explores the criminal prohibition against bigamy during the British colonial rule of Palestine, drawing particular attention to the exemptions it afforded to Muslims. Through archival ...
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New voices in Israel settler colonial studies Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Teodora Todorova
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2024)
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Must Dias fall? The politics and history of settler heritage in Southern Africa Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Caio Simões de Araújo
In the aftermath of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ Movement and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, the politics of heritage has been at the centre of new intellectual debates and political demands, especia...
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Settler colonialism and prisons: a comparative case study of Canada, Palestine, and Australia Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Elizabeth Venczel
Through an examination of the history of settler colonial violence against Indigenous peoples and lands in Canada, Palestine, and Australia, this paper exposes the links between colonialism and the...
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The making of the Homo Polaris: human acclimatization to the Arctic environment and Soviet ideologies in Northern Medical Institutions Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Dmitry V. Arzyutov
This paper examines the history of the Soviet human acclimatization project in the North and Siberia, which spanned from medical experiments in Stalin’s forced labor camps to the subsequent wave of...
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Indigenous nation building and native title: strategic uses of a fraught settler-colonial regime Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Anthea Compton, Alison Vivian, Theresa Petray, Matthew Walsh, Steve Hemming
Despite the ongoing and destructive nature of invasion and settler-colonial institutions, laws and policies in Australia, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations continue to assert their...
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Fragments of multi-layered settler colonialism: mixed-race children in Japanese schooling, the American Philippines, 1924–1945 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Eri Kitada
This article examines Japanese schools in Davao Province, the American Philippines, by highlighting the mixed-race children born to Japanese fathers and Filipino mothers. How did mixed-race childre...
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Healing from intergenerational trauma: narratives of connection, belonging, and truth-telling in two Aboriginal healing camps Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Joanne Wilmott, Jen Hamer, Damien W. Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg
Addressing intergenerational trauma caused through the impacts of colonization requires healing processes that are specific to the experiences and needs of First Nations peoples. This paper details...
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Theorizing the Adivasi’s absence in partition histories: indigenes, refugees, and the settler state in Dandakaranya forest Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Pankhuree R. Dube
This research article examines the contest between indigenous forest-dwelling communities and settler colonial policy in post-Partition central India. According to official estimates, from 1961–71 ...
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History curriculum in Arab schools: between teaching and challenging the Israeli history program in Arab schools Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Rabah Halabi
The goal of this study is to try to understand how history teachers in Arab high schools in Israel navigate their way between the official curriculum and their Palestinian-Arab identity. I examine ...
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Editor’s note Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Janne Lahti
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 13, No. 3, 2023)
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Migrant culture maintenance among the Welsh in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA, 1870–1920 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Robert Llewellyn Tyler
This paper provides an analysis of the nature of the Welsh ethnolinguistic community in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study considers c...
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Circles and lines: indigenous ontologies and decolonising climate change education Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Riley Olstead, Sutapa Chattopadhyay
In 2015, The Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRC) was released in Canada, outlining 94 Calls to Action which, include pushing Canadian post-secondary institutions to ethically engage Indigenous co...
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Red Power, white narrative: founding violence & the invalidation of Indigenous rights Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-21 David W. Everson
The disavowal of ‘founding violence’ remains a core proposition of settler colonial theory. This paper expands our theoretical understanding of the concept to account for the strategic invocation o...
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Editor’s note Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Janne Lahti
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2023)
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The settler roots of Plurinational Bolivia: state-sponsored indigenous colonization on Bolivia’s Amazonian ‘frontier’ Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Chuck Sturtevant
ABSTRACT This article analyzes a land conflict in Latin America through the lens of settler colonial studies. I focus on an area of the Bolivian Amazon known as the Alto Beni, where a government-sponsored colonization project settled indigenous colonists from the Bolivian highlands in territories occupied by the Mosetén people. This project has led to conflicts over land that continue to this day.
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Settler colonial theory and Canadian cultural nationalism Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Paul Litt
ABSTRACT This article examines Canadian cultural nationalism since Confederation through the lens of settler colonial theory, engaging with questions arising from this exercise. Along the way it discusses how settler colonial theory meshes with other theoretical perspectives, particularly nationalism theory. The main body of the paper is a historical overview of how settler cultural production colonized
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The spectacle of settler colonial urbanism, racialized policing, and Indigenous refusal of white possessive logics Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how the underlying logics of white possession continue to fuel a cycle of state-supported territorial acquisition, enclosure, and expulsion in Edmonton, Alberta’s city center through the recent opening of Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arena and home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers. Drawing from a two-year ethnography, we
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‘Uncanny encounters and haunting colonial histories in Australia’s reconciliation-era narratives’ Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Travis Franks
ABSTRACT Settler literature is haunted by the colonial past. Motifs found in the Australian literary tradition signify this haunting-Aboriginal spectrality, uncanny Aboriginal ceremonial grounds, and taboo massacre sites being the most common. Settler authors typically use these literary devices in moments of social and political upheaval that disturb the foundational myths of settler belonging. Australia's
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‘E Pā To Hau’: philosophy and theory on dispossession, elimination, grief, trauma and settler colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Hemopereki Simon
ABSTRACT This article explores the waiata tangi (lament), commonly known as ‘E Pā To Hau.’ Written by Rangiamoa of Ngāti Apakura after the attrocities committed by British soldiers at Rangiaowhia. It seeks to describe settler colonialism in terms of elimination, greif and dispossession. It argues that the waiata understands these concepts in very deep ways. The research utilises Whakaaro Based Philsophy
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Editors’ note Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Janne Lahti, Rauna Kuokkanen, Julie McIntyre, Magdalena Naum, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2023)
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Settler colonialism within the settler state: remaking the past through the built environment in Casablanca* Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Robert Flahive
ABSTRACT This paper frames Morocco as a settler state in order to map how the structural logic of settler colonialism persists through the transformation of the built environment in contemporary Casablanca. Rather than focus on commonly-referenced settler states, such as Israel or America, this paper analyzes Morocco, where formal decolonization occurred through the end of the French Protectorate 1956
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Affect, excess & settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Katherine Natanel
ABSTRACT What happens when we pay attention to the sensations of our research? Based on an image and encounter during fieldwork in West Jerusalem, this article traces how a feeling of discomfort both confirms and challenges what we (think we) know about settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel. Rather than dismissing the moments when narratives, objects and exchanges generate unease, I suggest that
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Correction Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-13
Published in Settler Colonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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‘We have a lot of (un)learning to do’: whiteness and decolonial prefiguration in a food movement organization Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Heather L. Elliott, Monica E. Mulrennan, Alain Cuerrier
ABSTRACT Despite the disproportionate food injustice experienced by Indigenous Peoples, Black people and people of color, food movements have been dominated by white settlers who have had limited success in addressing this injustice. Settler colonialism is increasingly recognized as a root cause of food insecurity for Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island; it is also a key contributor to food insecurity
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Kinship is not a metaphor Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Keavy Martin
ABSTRACT Indigenous oral histories say that Treaty No. 6 (1876) was not only a legal transaction but rather a ceremony of adoption whereby incoming settler peoples became relatives. With Indigenous theories of relationality now informing many disciplines, how do white settler peoples take up the framework of kinship without using it only as a metaphor—and thereby as yet another tool of settler-colonial
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Indigenous learners in the Manitoba Teacher, 1919–2019 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Matt Henderson
ABSTRACT This paper analyses The Manitoba Teacher, the principal publication of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, since its first publication in 1919. The analysis focuses on what has changed and what has remained the same in terms of how Indigenous learners have been perceived by settler educators over a century. This paper argues that over the century Indigenous people in Manitoba have been prohibited
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Asinabka in four transformation: how settler colonialism and racial capitalism sutured urbanization in Canada’s capital to the plunder of Algonquin territory Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Paul Sylvestre, Heather Castleden
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to scholarship on settler colonial urbanism by examining the historical constitution of Canada’s National Capital Region at the intersection of racial capitalism and settler colonization. Its impetus arises from four years of solidarity work with Algonquin land defenders and accomplices struggling to reclaim Asinabka, an Algonquin sacred complex of islands and waterfalls
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Tracing understanding of sovereignty and settler-colonial violence in the Quebec’s Viens Commission (2016–2019) Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Trycia Bazinet
ABSTRACT The Val d'Or crisis began in 2015 with local Indigenous women naming the violence they faced at the hands of police officers in a news report, which culminated in 37 documented cases yet no criminal charges. In response to the outcry, the provincial ‘Viens Commission: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress' was launched in 2016. The mandate of the commission was to determine if Indigenous
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Settler-colonial dispossession in West Jerusalem: between the personal and the collective Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, Tovi Fenster
ABSTRACT This article analyzes a spontaneous encounter between a Palestinian refugee—stepping over the threshold of her childhood home for the first time in seventy years, following its expropriation—and the current Israeli Jewish owner. This unusual encounter led us to propose a new understanding of dispossession based on both its personal (symbolic–emotional) and collective (economic–political) meanings
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Hydropower company sites: a study of Swedish settler colonialism Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Åsa Össbo
ABSTRACT The settler colonial perspective has until recently gained modest attention from scholars analysing the relations between the Swedish state and the Indigenous Sámi people throughout history. This article explores the dynamics of settler colonialism in the Swedish state’s relation to the Sámi people through the expansion of hydropower. I argue that the hydropower invasion beginning in the 1910s
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Agents of settler colonialism?: childhood, time and exclusion in the fairbridge scheme, 1913–1924 Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Tim Calabria
ABSTRACT Drawing from Kingsley Fairbridge's writings, this article explores the first Fairbridge Farm School from its establishment in 1913 until Fairbridge's death in 1924. Fairbridge's scheme sought to turn poor, urban British children into agriculturists who would occupy contested land in the colonies. Fairbridge attempted to instil the children with ‘love of the land’ by determining their conditions
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Vegan nationalism?: the Israeli animal rights movement in times of counter-terrorism Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Hiroshi Yasui
In recent years, the movement advocating animal rights and welfare (animal rights movement), in parallel with the practice of ethical veganism, has become increasingly significant in Israel. Along ...
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Threats from within and threats from without: Wet’suwet’en protesters, irregular asylum seekers and on-going settler colonialism in Canada Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Maggie Perzyna, Harald Bauder
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the ‘immigrant-Aboriginal parallax gap' whereby material connections between immigration and Indigenous dispossession are rarely examined in tandem by considering ways in which the Canadian media frames Indigenous protesters and irregular asylum seekers. Building on the work of previous studies of Oka/Kanasatake, Ipperwash and Caledonia and irregular boat arrivals of Fujian
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Occupied labour: dispossession through incorporation among Palestinian workers in Israel Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Andreas Hackl
ABSTRACT Promoting the employment of indigenous peoples has been a key strategy of economic development in settler colonial states. Israel’s framing of occupied Palestinian labour in its economy has mirrored this approach, with an implicit claim that it contributes prosperity to the Palestinians. What this false promise hides is how employment and the economic incorporation of indigenous people can
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Rupture in heritage: strategies of dispossession, elimination and co-resistance Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Feras Hammami
ABSTRACT Diaspora and Israel Jews are increasingly engaging their historical narratives of liberation within new forms of co-resistance to the Israeli Occupation, a history that controversially has been weaponized by the settler colonial power to manifest its dispossessive policies. ‘Occupation is not our Judaism’ has become a political slogan to mobilise Jews against land confiscation, house demolitions
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‘Iñche kai che’: settler colonialism and erasing the past in Gülumapu/Chile Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Jacob J. Sauer
ABSTRACT Setter colonialism is dedicated to the elimination of the native, not just from territory but from the past. This form of elimination comes from the mistranslation or misunderstanding of names and terms that identify individuals and communities, which the colonists then use to separate Indigenous peoples from their own pasts. Many researchers have argued that the modern Mapuche are the result
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Contested infrastructures: the case of British-mandate Palestine Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Ronen Shamir
ABSTRACT This study looks at infrastructures as sites of contest between empire and settler-colonialists. It analyses the construction of Mandate Palestine's Haifa seaport and Lydda Airport as imperial projects and traces the techno-political networks that allowed Jewish settlers to build their own competing seaport and airport in Tel-Aviv during the anti-colonial Arab Revolt (1936–1939). It identifies
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Closing the climb: refusal or reconciliation in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park? Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Vanessa Whittington, Emma Waterton
ABSTRACT The Uluru Climb, located within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, was permanently closed to tourists on the 26 October 2019 after decades of controversy. Determined by a unanimous vote of the Anangu majority Board of Management, news of the Climb’s closure quickly captured popular, political and media attention, not all of which was positive. Drawing on two periods of fieldwork –
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‘People get what they deserve’: necropolitical consultation in the Covid-19 pandemic Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Andrew Costa
ABSTRACT As the present Covid – 19 pandemic moves through Indigenous communities in Canada, it has been argued that continued mineral extraction or pipeline construction will potentially exacerbate the virus' spread among Indigenous people residing near work camps or construction areas. Listing these operations as essential puts an onus on local Indigenous people to take part in consultation with extractive
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Settler colonial studies and Latin America Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Lucy Taylor, Geraldine Lublin
ABSTRACT This introduction to the Special Issue of Settler Colonial Studies on Latin America locates the articles within the field of settler colonial theory and places it within the context of Latin American Studies. It reflects on the potential of settler colonial theory to provide fresh perspectives on the Latin American reality, and opens discussion about how Latin American experiences and critical
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Adjusting the focus: looking at Patagonia and the wider Argentine state through the lens of settler colonial theory Settler Colonial Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-13 Geraldine Lublin
ABSTRACT Notwithstanding predictions about the exhaustion of the so-called Myth of White Argentina, recent developments signal the continuing vitality of Argentina’s European creation myth. How can it be that, despite the victories secured by more than three decades of Indigenous and Afrodescendant activism, it may prove so hard to topple? This article borrows insights from settler colonial theory