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Alan Lester, ‘Empire and the Place of Panic’, in Robert Peckham (ed.), Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties, Hong Kong University Press, 2015
Challenging settler colonialism: Hip hop and indigenous languages in the Americas: Jenell Navarro, ‘WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas’, Critical Sociology, 2015
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On indigenous sovereignties, energy infrastructures, and settler colonialism: Dana E. Powell, ‘The rainbow is our sovereignty: Rethinking the politics of energy on the Navajo Nation’
11Feb15
Abstract:
This article offers a political-ecological reflection on Navajo (Diné) sovereignty, emphasizing lived and territorial interpretations of sovereignty, expanding our standard, juridical-legal notions of sovereignty that dominate public discourse on tribal economic and energy development.
Operating from a critical analysis of settler colonialism,
I suggest that alternative understandings of sovereignty – as expressed by Diné tribal members in a range of expressive practices – open new possibilities for thinking about how sovereign futures might be literally constructed through specific energy infrastructures. The article follows the controversy surrounding a proposed coal fired power plant known as Desert Rock, placing the phantom project in a longer, enduring history of struggle over energy extraction on Navajo land in order to illuminate this contested future. Broadly, these re-significations of sovereignty point toward a distinct modality of environmental action that suggests other kinds of relationships are at stake, challenging assumptions made by adversaries and allies alike that the politics of protesting (in this case) coal technologies is a practice with self-evident ethics. To intervene in these broad debates, I propose that there are multiple landscapes of power shaping Navajo territory, which must be brought into the ongoing, urgent debates over how the Navajo Nation might develop a more sustainable energy policy for the future.
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Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. Settlers 'come to stay': they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity.
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Settler colonialism includes rape: Kathryn Medien, ‘Israeli settler colonialism, “humanitarian warfare”, and sexual violence in Palestine’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021
Settler colonialism is embodied: Tricia McGuire-Adams, ‘”This is what I heard at Naicatchewenin”: Disrupting embodied settler colonialism’, Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing, 6, 1, 2021
Settler masculinities on display: Matthew L. Basso, ‘Settler masculinity and labour: the post-pioneer era gender order and New Zealand’s Great Strike of 1913’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2021
Settlers and their literatures: Camilla Cassidy, ‘Review of Fariha Shaikh, Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art; Philip Steer, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire’, Victoriographies, 11, 1, 2021
Indigeneity and ‘nature’: Michael T. Schmitt, Scott D. Neufeld, Stephanie A. Fryberg, Glenn Adams, Jodi L. Viljoen, Lyana Patrick, Clifford Gordon Atleo, Sheri Fabian, ‘”Indigenous” Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020)’, Ecopsychology, 2021
Indigenous workers have international rights: David Meren, ‘Safeguarding Settler Colonialism in Geneva: Canada, Indigenous Rights, and ilo Convention No. 107 on the Protection and Integration of Indigenous Peoples (1957)’, The Canadian Historical Review, 2021
Indigenous settler colonialists: Andrew Shaler, ‘The Cherokee and Wyandot Companies on the Overland Trails to California: Histories of Indigenous Migration and the Settler Gaze, 1849–1856’, The Journal of the Civil War Era, 11, 1, 2021, pp. 9-35
Containing settler colonialism: Gabrielle Moser, ‘Settler colonialism’s container technologies: photographing crates in the Canadian Arctic (1926–1953)’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2021
Homeless, Indigenous, Forgotten (not): E. Ornelas, ‘Settler Colonial Memory and Agamben’s Camp in Indigenous Minnesota’, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, 13, 2, 2020
Settler vs. Indigene and their reproduction: Gala Rexer, ‘Borderlands of reproduction: bodies, borders, and assisted reproductive technologies in Israel/Palestine’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2021
Sympathetic settlers: Erin Akerman, Unsettling Sympathy: Indigenous and Settler Conversations from the Great Lakes Region, 1820-1860, PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2021
The yeoman ideal: R. R. Henderson, ‘The ties that bind: the enduring strength of the yeoman ideal in North-West Tasmania 1860-2000’, PhD dissertation, University of Tasmania, 2020
Between settler government and settler Facebook Indigenous media gets shafted: Naomi Moran, ‘First Nations media has been caught in the crossfire of Facebook’s battle with Australian news’, The Guardian, 23/02/21
The settler colonial logic of elimination: Michael Clarke, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang’, Global Responsibility to Protect, 13, 1, 2021, pp. 9-19
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