Are temporary migrants settlers? Claudia Tazreiter, Andrew Burridge, ‘Fault-lines in temporary migration schemes: The case of Australia and the legacies of settler-colonial mentalities in the exploitation of temporary non-citizens’, International Migration, 2022

25May22

Abstract: We evaluate the complexity of temporary migration schemes in contrast to the longstanding approach to immigration as a key aspect of nation-building in settler societies. Until the early 1990s, predominantly one-way, permanent immigration schemes were preferred in settler societies such as Australia. In an increasingly fluid global context, temporary migrants are more susceptible to forms of abuse and exploitation in a host society, with fewer forms of redress due to their status as non-citizens
and non-permanent residents. Taking a specific focus upon Australia, we contextualize the experiences of temporary migrants both prior to and under the conditions of COVID-19. Our key argument is that temporary migration schemes are organised and structured not only to favour states, as well as employers and businesses, but that the stripping back of rights to those who enter these schemes
is a deliberative aspect of the state approach.


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Social citizenship under settler colonialism: Shirley-Pat Chamberlain, ‘Changing Stinking Thinking’: A Comparative Case Study of the Enactment, Embodiment, and Emplacement of Social Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest, PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2022

25May22

Abstract: Throughout history the agency of social citizenship has resulted in actions that both include and exclude certain individuals and groups through political, economic, and civic interaction. This creates abject spaces of limited rights, inclusion and belonging. Divergent and nested lived experiences of how processes and practices of social citizenship are enacted, embodied, and emplaced necessitate a re-problematizing of the context from the hegemonic view of Canada as a pluralistic liberal multicultural state to one where multiple divergent epistemologies collide in a state of continued settler colonialism. This comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest of what is now called Canada explores how two civil society organizations (CSOs) facilitate or hinder Settler and Indigenous individuals’, groups’, and communities’ agency through social action. CSOs are sites of social action that have the power to create spaces where all citizens have a voice in their own social well-being through participation, partnership, and power sharing. The re-problematizing allows for the exploration of how the reframing of political and civil space impacts interactions and relationships to investigate what these sites tell us about participants’ perceptions and lived experiences of interlocking oppressions, power, and agency in the lived experience of processes and practices of social citizenship.


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A settler parks on Indigenous land … Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis, Luke Arthur Meeken, ‘Land-based art intervention: Disrupting settler colonial curriculum of public parks’, International Journal of Education Through Art, 18, 2, 2022, pp. 259-277

21May22

Abstract: US public parks are ideological sites where settler-colonial curriculum of territoriality is enacted through their organization and design. However, public parks and the rhetorics of nature and democracy that often frame them are rarely problematized as White settler projects occupying the colonized land. Drawing on the scholarship of decolonial, land-based education, this article critiques the narratives of US urban parks’ undergirding settler-colonial curricula and discusses a student-developed artistic intervention executed in a local public park. The ‘Lederer Park Placards Project’ is explored as both pedagogical gesture and art-based research, which engages in settler-colonial critique through site-specific installation to surface the erasure of Indigenous realities and to divert the existing settler-colonial narratives of public places. This art-in-action is discussed as a decolonial gesture intended to disrupt the White, Eurocentric, colonial curricula embedded in US public parks.


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Greenwashing the settler way: Sara Salazar Hughes, Stepha Velednitsky, Amelia Arden Green, Amelia Arden Green, ‘Greenwashing in Palestine/Israel: Settler colonialism and environmental injustice in the age of climate catastrophe’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022

21May22

Abstract: Israeli innovations in “green” technology are ostensibly aimed at sustainable resource management and climate change mitigation. But sustainable development and environmental (in)justice in Palestine/Israel need to be examined through interdisciplinary perspectives that account for the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts in which they occur. Taking into account the historical and geographic context of Israel’s scientific development, we argue that Israel’s green technologies are fundamentally structured by the Zionist project of appropriating Palestinian lands. Within settler colonial analysis, environmental injustice comprises part of a broader pattern of settler domination of Indigenous ecological relations, requiring attending not to ‘equity’ in relations with the state and environment but a reckoning with settler privilege and the return of land to Indigenous communities. We analyze the use of environmental infrastructures—specifically in the areas of waste management, renewable energy, and agricultural technologies (“agritech”)—as mechanisms for land appropriation and dispossession in Palestine/Israel. Our analysis of ‘greenwashing’ as a rhetorical strategy asserts that regardless of the ecological impact of individual technologies, in Israel’s settler colonial context they further indigenous dispossession and elimination and are therefore incommensurable with long-term socio-ecological resilience. Through this analysis of Israeli greenwashing, we discuss Israeli sustainability initiatives and technological innovations not as ahistorical discourses, commodities, or technologies, but as elements of a historically situated settler colonial project.


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The settler’s selective memory: Kevin Bruyneel, Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States, University of North Carolina Press, 2021

21May22

Description: Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, however, especially in contemporary political and intellectual discourse about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racism in general. In this ambitious new book, Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself. By reexamining major episodes, texts, writers, and memories of the political past from the seventeenth century to the present, Bruyneel reveals the power of settler memory at work in the persistent disavowal of Indigeneity. He also shows how Indigenous and Black intellectuals have understood ties between racism and white settler memory, even as the settler dimensions of whiteness are frequently erased in our discourse about race, whether in conflicts over Indian mascotry or the white nationalist underpinnings of Trumpism. Envisioning a new political future, Bruyneel challenges readers to refuse settler memory and consider a third reconstruction that can meaningfully link antiracism and anticolonialism.


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Russian/Soviet settler colonialism in Crimea: Anna Engelhardt, Sasha Shestakova, ‘Crimean Tatar Infrastructures of Decolonial Care’, European Review, 2022

18May22

Abstract: This article employs the framework of critical infrastructure studies to outline the settler–colonial oppression and decolonial resistance in the Crimean Peninsula. It shows how Soviet and Russian colonialism intertwined ongoing landscape destruction with forced displacements and colonial othering. In addition, it outlines the laborious process of decolonial nourishment to define infrastructure beyond settler terms, questioning what counts as such. The text counters Russian colonial understanding of infrastructure that could not comprehend indigenous Crimean Tatar irrigation systems, constructed through intimate relations with soil and water rather than large-scale geoengineering. The Crimean Tatar water infrastructures are considered, in line with other forms of resistance, as ones of decolonial care. They create the possibility of a future which goes against that imposed by the Russian state.


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Pandemics and climate change are settler colonial! Jessica Hernandez, Julianne Meisner, Kevin Bardosh, Peter Rabinowitz, ‘Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples’, The Lancet, 6, 2022, pp. 381-382

14May22

Excerpt: There is a frenetic push to understand and address ecosystem change and biodiversity loss as drivers of pandemic virus emergence. But despite the growth of one health and planetary health concepts over the last few decades, we continue to see a minimisation of structural forces (including settler colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation) in the framing of our current ecological and climate crises and their connections to multispecies health. In particular, analyses of land tenure and land rights are barely mentioned, despite the fact that land is of vast economical and sociocultural significance and is the stage upon which human–animal–environment–pathogen interactions are played out.


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Confronting, engaging, disengaging against settler colonialism: Yann Allard-Tremblay, ‘Braiding Liberation Discourses: Dialectical, Civic and Disjunctive Views about Resistance and Violence’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2022

14May22

Abstract: This article puts three discourses about resistance and violence, coming from two distinct
settler colonial contexts, in conversation, to highlight a distinctive theory of change
associated with contemporary Indigenous movements. The first, from South Africa, can
be seen in the writings of Nelson Mandela. It offers a dialectical view of resistance,
where the oppressor sets the terms of the confrontation and where violence is allowable
in the pursuit of change. The second discourse can be seen in the writings of James
Tully and offers a theoretical bridge between the first and the third. It focuses on civic
citizenship as a nonviolent engagement with terms of governance. The third can be
seen in the writings of Indigenous theorists whose work focuses on resurgence. It offers
a disjunctive theory of change that centres transgression and prefigurative practices.
The conclusion of the article braids these discourses to discuss how they both converge
and diverge.


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Settler colonialism on display: Martin Crevier, Museums, Connections, and Imagination in the Making of a British World, 1870-1945, PhD dissertation, Cambridge University, 2021

14May22

Abstract: This dissertation examines how settlers came to terms with the landscape and the peoples in the areas in which they were based, from the last third of the nineteenth century to 1945. Focusing on museums and art galleries in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada, as well as on the scientists, philanthropists, and artists who gravitated around them, it develops a comparative and connected understanding of these institutions. More largely, it offers a characterisation of the intellectual underpinnings of settler colonialism in what historians label the ‘British world.’ This dissertation makes two arguments. Firstly that settler colonialism, as violent as it was and remains, is also an intellectual process that requires the aesthetic and cognitive appropriation of space and peoples. Secondly, that the development of proto-nationalist sentiments across Britain’s settler colonies is best understood in relation to these appropriative practices. The first two chapters focus on the early development of colonial museums and galleries. They highlight how they were central to the emergence of developmentalist visions of nature and of imperially-minded historical sensibilities. The second chapter concludes with a consideration of Indigenous relationships with museums as examples of historical reinscribing. The third and fourth chapters complicate the boundaries of the ‘British world’. They consider the involvement of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in museum practices across the dominions during the interwar period. Fears of white degeneration pushed the Corporation to invest in colonial museums as a means to uplift settler populations. This set the table for future interconnections, notably in the realm of the fine arts. As Chapter Four highlights, Carnegie money brought about an intra-Empire Commonwealth exchange of exhibitions that sought to buttress national art schools inspired by the landscape paintings of the Canadian Group of Seven. The final chapter emphasises the incorporation of Indigenous peoples and their material culture within settler nationalisms. It compares and connects the careers and ideas of the South African Irma Stern, the Canadian Emily Carr, and the Australian Margaret Preston. It argues that the three absorbed and shared museum and anthropologically-inflected conceptions of the Other.


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The horror of settler colonialism! Johan Höglund, ‘Settlement and Imperialism’, in Stephen Shapiro, Mark Storey (eds), The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 60-75

14May22

Access the chapter here.


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