A settler-colonial Garibaldi: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Postcolonial Garibaldi?’, Modern Italy, 2018

14Nov18

Abstract: This paper offers an original interpretation of Garibaldi’s political style and imaginary. The aim is to account for Garibaldi’s sustained engagement with the possibility of displacement as an alternative to revolution. It begins in an afternoon on a remote small island between two oceans. Garibaldi was considering his options. When he returned to Italy, he had seriously reflected on the possibility of colonising other places. Colonising had entered the picture. It was a postcolonial Garibaldi.

Questo saggio si propone di offirire una nuova interpretazione dell’origine dello stile politico e dell’immaginario di Garibaldi. L’obiettivo è quello di considerare la maniera in cui Garibaldi pensava la relazione tra emigrazione e rivoluzione. L’articolo inizia in un pomeriggio su un’isola remota tra due oceani. Garibaldi stava considerando diverse opzioni. Quando tornò, la possibilità di colonizzare altri luoghi ere stata ponderata attentamente. Si trattava di un Garibaldi postcoloniale.


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Settler courts uphold settler colonialism: Michael McCrossan, ‘Eviscerating Historic Treaties: Judicial Reasoning, Settler Colonialism, and ‘Legal’ Exercises of Exclusion’, Journal of Law and Society, 2018

14Nov18

Abstract: This article examines the reasoning of Canadian Supreme Court justices in the area of Aboriginal treaty rights, paying particular attention to the Grassy Narrows (2014) decision. By not only engaging with the internal logics contained within treaty rights decisions, but also by further contextualizing the decisions and comparing them to the transcripts of their respective hearings, it provides an additional perspective on the socio‐cultural relations of power inscribed within the legal field. Ultimately, the article demonstrates that members of the Supreme Court have displayed a consistent orientation towards logics predicated upon the absorption and elimination of Indigenous legal perspectives. In fact, what a reading of the hearing transcripts together with the Grassy Narrows decision reveals is a judicial privileging of established property interests and extractive impulses underpinning the settler‐colonial development of the Canadian state.


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The American West is a global settler West: Janne Lahti, The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge, 2018

14Nov18

Description: The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.


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Concluding a book on settler archives: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Afterword: The global archive of liminal settlement’, in Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (eds), Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race, Routledge, 2018

13Nov18

Abstract: Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower have collected essays that reflect on the production, circulation, and signification of settler material texts. Settlers, by definition, move, and as they do, and as they retrospectively reflect on the implications of their displacement, they produce and reproduce specific texts and create archives of material and discursive production. This book is about what their cultural products do, singularly and collectively, and what they do in the contextual settings they operate in. This is an important direction of research; to my knowledge it had not been attempted before.


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Introducing a book on settler archives: Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, ‘Introduction: Settler colonialism and its cultural archives—ways of reading’, in Yu-ting Huang, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower (eds), Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race, Routledge, 2018

13Nov18

Abstract: How might we conceptualize settler colonialism differently when we study contemporary Germans in Namibia as enduring settlers, despite the fact that their forefathers failed to maintain a settler sovereign state? What if settler-colonial research took seriously the possibility that a community center in New Zealand’s Far North could do the work of decolonization? And what consideration would result from finding ways to interpret settler narratives and folk culture—say, in the forms of romance novels and rural ballads—not just as subtle arms of hegemonic settler ideology but instead for thinly veiled anxiety and fear?


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The natural hazards of settler colonialism: Annick Thomassin, Timothy Neale, Jessica K. Weir, ‘The natural hazard sector’s engagement with Indigenous peoples: a critical review of CANZUS countries’, Geographical Research, 2018

13Nov18

Abstract: Natural hazard management agencies across the settler countries Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United States (or CANZUS countries) are presently involved in an increasing range of collaborative and consultative engagements with Indigenous peoples. However, perhaps because these engagements are diverse and relatively recent, little has been written about how they emerged and, from these agencies’ perspectives, little is known about how these engagements find their motivation within government natural hazard management frameworks. In this article, we review existing academic and grey literature to categorise the origins of recent and present engagements and then identify and elaborate on the key rationales informing natural hazard management agencies’ interactions with Indigenous peoples. We argue both that the broad principles of sustainability and inclusion have transformed these interactions and that developmentalist approaches and an overemphasis on Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge can sometimes undermine this work. Incorporating critiques of settler colonialism relevant to the CANZUS context, this review aims to support established, emerging, and future collaborative engagements by investigating and analysing the literature to date.


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Black power against settler colonialism: Black Power Greg Burris, ‘Palestine in Black and White: White Settler- Colonialism and the Specter of Transnational Black Power’, in Paola Bacchetta, Sunaina Maira, Howard Winant (eds), Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality, Routledge, 2018

13Nov18

Abstract: For the already besieged and malnourished population of Gaza, the summer of 2014 was a summer of hell. For 51 days and nights, Israel decimated the Strip, dropping some 20,000 tons of explosives-the rough equivalent of six nuclear bombs-on one of the world’s most densely populated territories: a piece of land smaller than Liechtenstein, about one-tenth the size of Rhode Island, and inhabited by a captive population of nearly two million people. Unable to escape the destruction, people took refuge wherever they could-in hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and other United Nations-designated shelters. However, even these buildings were not always spared. By the end of the devastation, over 2,200 Palestinians were dead, over 10,000 wounded, and over a quarter of a million displaced. To use a metaphor frequently invoked by Israeli strategists, this was another instance of Israel “mowing the grass.”


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Racial capitalism and settler colonialism go hand in hand: Tyler McCreary, Richard Milligan, ‘The Limits of Liberal Recognition: Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Environmental Governance in Vancouver and Atlanta’, Antipode, 2018

13Nov18

Abstract: Despite increasing institutionalised recognition of Indigenous and Black environmental concerns in governance processes, the structures of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in North America continue to normalise dispossession and disproportionately burden marginalised communities with environmental harms. Engaging recent critiques of the inability of Indigenous rights frameworks to reverse ongoing colonial dispossessions and the failure of environmental justice policies to address racialised environmental inequalities, this article argues that political ecologists must contend with the limitations of institutionalised recognition of historically marginalised communities in North American environmental governance. We argue that institutionalisation of such concern, while putatively redressing injustices or reconciling dispossession through environmental governance, functions more to elide historic drivers and geographic processes of marginalisation than to disrupt white supremacy and settler colonialism.


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Greek migrants/settlers: Andonis Piperoglou, ‘Rethinking Greek Migration as Settler-Colonialism’, Greek/American Arts and Letters, 2018

09Nov18

Excerpt: Modern migration to the “four great Nordic nations” rested on conquest, colonialism, and displacement. These nations were British, or (in the case of the United States) ex-British, settler-colonial societies. They were societies that shared remarkably similar understandings of national space, civilizational origins, and power dynamics associated with labor exploitation and racial classifications. Underlying this similarity was the perception that lands in long-term use by First Nations peoples were empty or unused. Through the processes of settler colonization, race-making, and capitalist exploitation the lands of First Nations peoples were carved up into commercialized packets of private property for new settlers—for people that came to stay.


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Aboriginal activism and negotiated settlements: Shaphan Cox, Tod Jones, ‘Native title and the politics of rejection: beyond the post‐political binary of consensus and dissensus in urban Aboriginal activism’, Geographical Research, 2018

09Nov18

Abstract: This paper uses a settler colonial lens to highlight the limits of the post‐political while interrogating aspects of Indigenous politics and assertions of sovereignty in Perth, Western Australia. One of the ways in which Indigenous rights to urban space are being practiced in cities is through native title claims and negotiated settlements. In the south‐west of Western Australia, including in the capital city of Perth, native title negotiations have been characterised by protracted and acrimonious divisions between the Nyoongar custodians of the area and the State. Among members of the Indigenous population, highly publicised oppositional politics have also been constructed in the mainstream media between the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council and the Nyoongar Tent Embassy. In this paper, we analyse how they have been represented in media discourse and consider how both groups seek to articulate a politics of rejection of the settler colonial logic of elimination. We highlight the dangers that arise if and when researchers are seduced into adjudication on which group is properly political. Our aim is to demonstrate how the current native title regime disavows Indigenous sovereignty, which leads us to advance certain ways in which to understand the spatial effects of this politics of rejection and opposition to assertions of Indigenous sovereignty.


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