The settlers did it: Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies, Routledge, 2019

15Apr21

Description: Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to the dynamics around civilian-driven mass violence against indigenous peoples. In many cases, however, civilians were major, if not the main, perpetrators of such violence. The focus of this book is thus on the role of civilians as perpetrators of exterminatory violence and on those elements within settler colonial situations that promoted mass violence on their part.


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With interventions on settler colonialism and the Canadian welfare system (by Laura C. L. Landertinger), and on settler sexualities (by Gregory D. Smithers): Chelsea Schields, Dagmar Herzog (eds), The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism, Routledge 2021

15Apr21

Access the chapters here.


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Settler new races: Charlotte Ann Legg, The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914, University of Nebraska Press, 2021

15Apr21

Description: The New White Race traces the development of the press in Algeria between 1860 and 1914, examining the particular role of journalists in shaping the power dynamics of settler colonialism. Constrained in different ways by the limitations imposed on free expression in a colonial context, diverse groups of European settlers, Algerian Muslims, and Algerian Jews nevertheless turned to the press to articulate their hopes and fears for the future of the land they inhabited and to imagine forms of community which would continue to influence political debates until the Algerian War. The frontiers of these imagined communities did not necessarily correlate with those of the nation—either French or Algerian—but framed processes of identification that were at once local, national, and transnational. The New White Race explores these processes of cultural and political identification, highlighting the production practices, professional networks, and strategic-linguistic choices mobilized by journalists as they sought to influence the sentiments of their readers and the decisions of the French state. Announcing the creation of a “new white race” among the mixed European population of Algeria, settler journalists hoped to increase the autonomy of the settler colony without forgoing the protections afforded by their French rulers. Their ambivalent expressions of “French” belonging, however, reflected tensions among the colonizers; these tensions were ably exploited by those who sought to transform or contest French imperial rule.


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It does not get any more settler colonial than this! Golf course erases Indigenous pasts …

14Apr21

Sarah Bahr, ‘A Push to Move the Golf Course Atop a Native American ‘Stonehenge’: Historians hoping to preserve the ancient Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, as a UNESCO World Heritage site faces a problem: the golf club that leases the property’, New York Times, 12/04/21


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Several appropriations: Siddhant Issar, ‘Theorising ‘racial/colonial primitive accumulation’: settler colonialism, slavery and racial capitalism’, Race & Class, 2021

13Apr21

Abstract: This article reconceptualises the Marxist notion of ‘primitive accumulation’, examining how settler colonialism and anti-Black racial domination structure American capitalism. The analysis intervenes in theorisations of primitive accumulation in both critiques of neoliberalism and the growing literature on racial capitalism. It shows how particular appropriations of primitive accumulation in the context of neoliberalism not only treat the concept as, ultimately, external to the core logic of capitalism, but also ignore the ways racial domination and colonisation configure capital’s violence. Simultaneously, within racial capitalism scholarship, primitive accumulation is prone to conceptual stretching, often flattening disparate forms of land and labour expropriation. In contrast, through the analytic of ‘racial/colonial primitive accumulation’, the author elucidates how normative wage-labour exploitation is predicated on settler colonialism and racial slavery and its afterlives. This thus adds precision to received understandings of capitalist expropriation, while also pushing the literature on racial capitalism beyond a white/Black binary.


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Indigeneity as disability: Siobhan Senier, ‘Disability, Blackness, and Indigeneity: An Invitation to a Conversation’, College Language Association Journal, 64, 1, 2021, pp. 166-173

13Apr21

Excerpt: Arguably, Indigenous Disability Studies performs similar work. One landmark book does the same kind of heavy duty as Christopher Bell’s Blackness and Disability, and it was published just shortly after his groundbreaking volume: in Native American Communities on Health and Disability Lavonna Lovern and Carol Locust (Eastern Band Cherokees) argue that “for centuries tribes have emphasized the normality of people with difference.”1 Scholars following their lead have sought to describe longstanding, tribally specific approaches to (dis)ability; of Cherokee descent, Sean Teuton suggests that “in many oral traditions, disability is a paradoxical source of power.”2 Other scholars have shown how specific kinds of bodymind impairment have been produced by settler colonialism: For example, residential schools produced post-traumatic stress and intergenerational trauma; massive out-adoption of Indigenous children has led to psychic conditions like “split feather syndrome”; the destruction of traditional food sources has created diabetes and other illnesses.


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Settlers are made: Marcelo Svirsky, ‘The Reproduction of Settler Colonialism in Palestine’, Journal of Perpetrator Research, 4, 1, 2021, pp. 1–36

13Apr21

Abstract: Critical scholarship on Palestine/Israel tends to focus on conceptualising the settler colonial practices that characterise this conflict but have failed to account for how these practices are reproduced and sustained over time. To address this gap, rather than focusing on Israel’s quantifiable strengths such as military might, the use of law, the economy, and diplomacy, this article investigates the reciprocal relations between the formation of Israeli modes of being or subjectivities, on the one hand, and the generation and distribution of settler colonial surplus, on the other. The examination of the processes of subjectivity formation in their settler colonial register on the side of the coloniser allows understating how the circuits of settler colonial power endure.


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Diderot the settler: Janice Feng, ‘Articulating women’s bodies: Montesquieu, Diderot, and the imperial and settler-colonial politics of gender and sexuality’, History of European Ideas, 2021

13Apr21

Abstract: In this essay I develop a feminist anti-colonial critique by reading two eighteenth-century literary texts that discuss Middle Eastern and Indigenous gender and sexual practices at length: Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes (1721) and Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville (1772). While Montesquieu and Diderot are often heralded as anti-imperial European Enlightenment thinkers, the specific ways in which Montesquieu and Diderot use gender and non-European women’s bodies to construct their political-theoretical arguments show us two distinct colonial logics, one imperial and the other settler-colonial. I show that whereas Montesquieu uses Persian and Muslim sexual and gender practices to put forward an imperial vision premised on the superiority of French political order over a despotic ‘oriental’ order, Diderot uses Indigenous sexual practices to denote a settler-colonial logic premised on the erasure of conquest and pacification of Indigenous women’s bodies. In doing so I build on existing feminist and post/anti-colonial scholarship to develop gender and sexuality as central analytics of imperial and settler-colonial politics.


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Indigenous regionalism against settler colonialism: Roberta Rice, ‘Indigenous regionalism in the Andes’, Globalizations, 2021

12Apr21

Abstract: Top-down processes of regional integration among the Andean countries of South America are occurring alongside bottom-up processes of Indigenous regionalism in Bolivia and Ecuador that weave together Indigenous peoples’ territories across local administrative units and even national borders. In light of this dynamic, the study asks: What explains the new Indigenous regionalism in the Andes? And, what are its implications for formal processes of regional integration? The study examines the cases of the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) and the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyo (CONAMAQ) as examples of Indigenous regionalism in relation to the institutional innovations of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) to incorporate Indigenous organizations into its structure and agenda. The article argues that the intersections of regional integration, the enactment of the plurinational state, and Indigenous autonomies have provided the necessary institutional space for expressions of Indigenous regionalism to flourish.


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Land education against settler colonialism: Anna Lees, Tasha Tropp Laman, Dolores Calderón, ‘“Why didn’t I know this?”: Land Education as an Antidote to Settler Colonialism in Early Childhood Teacher Education’, Theory into Practice, 2021

12Apr21

Abstract: Settler Colonialism is marked by the permanent move of mostly European settlers into other territories that requires the ongoing displacement and/or elimination of Indigenous peoples (Wolfe, 2006), the enslavement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples from Africa (Kelley, 2017), and the individual ownership of land for capital gain (Wolfe, 2006). This displacement and elimination take place in curriculum with an impact on what is learned and not learned in schools (Calderón, 2014; Nxumalo, 2018; Sabzalian, 2019). To counteract this, we use land education (Simpson, 2002), an educational approach where curriculum starts with Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledges, confronting and dismantling anti-Indigenous colonial processes (Tupper, 2011). Land education is a project of imagining just and sustainable futures, but much work must be done to get there. This article shares insights on what aspects of “getting there” looks like in early childhood teacher education.


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