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« Settlers name (others don’t): Karen Pennesi, ‘Differential responses to constraints on naming agency among indigenous peoples and immigrants in Canada’, Language & Communication, 64, 2019, pp. 91-103
Settler colonialism shapes settler democracy: Adam Dahl, Empire of the People Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought, UniversityPress of Kansas, 2018 »

The ethnographer as settler spy: Susan Slyomovics, ‘”The Ethnologist-Spy Was Hanged, At That Time We Were a Little Savage”: Anthropology in Algeria with Habib Tengour, Boundary2: An Online Journal, 2018

11Dec18

Abstract: Following Mohammed Seddik Benyahia’s call to boycott, ethnology was banned outright at the twenty-fourth International Conference of Sociology in Algiers in March 1974. This essay reads Algerian poet and anthropologist Habib Tengour’s sly voicing of the violent indigene consigning ethnology to the gallows to rethink authority and expertise in the social sciences.

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