« Black and Indigenous (and in a double bind): Rocío Gil Martínez de Escobar, Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila-Texas Borderland, PhD Dissertation, CUNY, 2019
The settler colonialism of indeterminate people: Matthew Hill, ‘”Half-breeds”, squatters, land speculators, and settler colonialism in the Des Moines-Mississippi confluence’, MA dissertation, University of Northern Iowa, 2019 »

Hysteresis is the onset of settler colonialism: P. O’B. Lyver, P. Timoti, T. Davis, J. M. Tylianakis, ‘Biocultural Hysteresis Inhibits Adaptation to Environmental Change’, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2019

11May19

Abstract: Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) often use natural resources as both a reason and mechanism for environmental management, yet a number of environmental, social, and economic drivers disrupt this relationship. Here, we argue that these drivers can also trigger a set of feedback mechanisms that further diminish the efficacy of local management. We call this process biocultural hysteresis. These feedbacks, which include knowledge loss and a breakdown of social hierarchies, prevent IPLC from adapting their management to change. Biocultural hysteresis worsens as IPLC spend an increasing amount of time outside their social–ecological context. Therefore, we argue for adaptive policies and processes that favour protecting and enabling IPLC engagement with their environment.


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