a diploma in indigeneity, venezuela
24Oct11
Once in class, students receive lessons in indigenous rights, language and mythology and in the afternoons they get the chance to put practical skills to the test, herding buffalo and tending vegetable plots.
The Indigenous University is far removed from its counterparts in Venezuela’s cities. But that is because it has been constructed by and for indigenous communities.
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- Deportation is a form of incarceration: Monisha Das Gupta, ‘Carcerality and Abolition: Settler Politics and Migrant Organizing’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 801-825
- Alien frontiers: Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Neda Atanasoski, ‘Unsettling Alien Land’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 677-703
- Indigenous borderlands against settler borderlands (introducing a special issue): Amrah Salomón J., Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Susy J. Zepeda, ‘Indigenous Borderlands: Indian Again, the Return of Land and People’, American Quarterly, 78, 3, 2026, pp. 467-491
- Measuring settler colonial discrimination: Jun Xu, Fang Gong, Donghui Wang, ‘The Subtle Burden: Everyday Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health and Happiness in the United States’, Race and Social Problems, 18, 2026, #54
- Violence and settlers: Daniel Gargya, Alexandre Marhic, ‘Settler Violence in the West-Bank: Domestic and International Accountability Mechanisms’, MENA Consortium, 24, 2026
- Proximity is a problem for settlers: Antti Tarvainen, ‘Settler Colonial City Makes Innovation Urbanism: Toward a Global Critique of “Proximity” in Startup Jerusalem’, Antipode, 2026
- The settlers’ plan (it is by design): Margaret Ellis-Young, ‘Foundational But Also “Beyond the Scope”? Planners’ Reflections on Land Use Planning as a Space for Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Two Canadian Cities’, Planning Theory & Practice, 2026
- German settlers, far far away: María Teresa Douzet-Carafi, Javier Hernández, Félix Rojo-Mendoza, Javiera Castro-Pacheco, ‘State, Colonization, and Elites: The Case of Germans in Araucanía, Chile (1880–1925)’, Sociology Lens, 2026
- Settler colonialism originates ‘replacement’: Sarah Bracke, ‘The subject of population “replacement” anxieties and the spectre of coloniality’, Patterns of Prejudice, 2026
- Blackberries as agents of settler coloniality: Carl-Jan Dihlmann, ‘Ontological security under invasive life conditions: Thinking With a blackberry on Canada’s Sunshine Coast’, EPE: Nature and Space, 2026
- Trout as agents of settler coloniality: Rune Flikke, Cecilia Salinas, Javier Ciancio, Juana Aigo, ‘Remodeling nature: Trout, borders, and the ongoing colonization of Argentine Patagonia’, EPE: Nature and Space, 2026
- Expropriation, inequality, settler colonialism (in the long run): Jeremy Bowles, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Michael Olson, ‘”To Hell or to Connacht”: Expropriation, Inequality, and Local Legacies of Settler Colonialism’, International Organization, 2026
- Data centres settle the land: Megan A. Carney, ‘”No One Drop for Data”: Restoring Metabolic Relations amidst Parasitic Settler Colonialism’, Antipode, 2026
- Living and naming: Yacoub Al-Qasasfa, ‘Colonialism, the Politics of Naming and Lived Toponymy: Identity Struggle and Symbolic Erasure in Palestine’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 25, 2, 2026, pp. 215-247
- De-growing settler colonialism: Elena Gomez, ‘Degrowth and the Indigenous ecopoetics of dg nanouk okpik’s Blood Snow’, Textual Practice, 2026
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