« If you resist, you must be a monster: Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times Susana Loza, Lexington Books, 2017
Food insecurity as settler colonialism: Megan Mucioki, Jennifer Sowerwine, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, ‘Thinking inside and outside the box: local and national considerations of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)’, Journal of Rural Studies, 57, 2018, pp. 88–98 »

Decolonisation as strategy: Jonathan Crossen, ‘Another Wave of Anti-Colonialism: The Origins of Indigenous Internationalism’, Canadian Journal of History, 52, 3, 2017,

13Dec17

Abstract: The global Indigenous rights movement, born in the mid-1970s, found its primary inspiration in the Third-Worldism espoused by anti-colonial leaders over the previous decades. The leadership of both the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (wcip) and the International Indian Treaty Council (iitc), the two flagship organizations of the movement, drew on Pan-Africanism and decolonization in order to promote the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination. The two organizations, however, applied the logic of decolonization in different ways. The iitc consciously adopted the discourse of decolonization in order to seek leverage from the Third World voting bloc and gain recognition for new and independent nations at the United Nations. The wcip wished to adapt the decolonization movement, not only by extending it geographically, but also by shifting it conceptually, in order to challenge the use of the nation state as the basic structure of global politics.


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