Infestation!
31Jul19
In the Guardian Afua Hirsch concludes that ‘Whenever Trump says ‘infested’, we know he’s talking about people of colour‘. She is spot on, but there’s more than racism. Settler colonialism is a mode of domination that reproduces a specific sociopolitical body in the place of another. Unwanted and uncontrolled reproduction is the end of settler colonialism. Like an infection (the terms share the same etymology), an infestation’s primary characteristic is an ability to reproduce. That’s when the settler-colonial mind flips out.
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- Indigenous cosmovision against settlervision: Ranjeeva Ranjan, Alexis Castillo, Karla Morales, ‘Mapuche cosmovision and territorial rights: An interdisciplinary approach to understand the conflict of Wallmapu, Chile’, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2021
- Settler colonialism in ancient texts: Anand Venkatkrishnan, ‘Skeletons in the Sanskrit closet’, Religion Compass, 2021
- Authenticity is repressive! Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman, ‘Beyond the Coloniality of Authenticity’, American Quarterly, 73, 1, 2021, pp. 161-167
- Decolonising law, one mode of colonial domination at a time: Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery G. Hewitt, Amar Bhatia (eds), Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives, Routledge, 2021
- The poverty of settler colonialism: Jerome Tharaud, ‘Western Salvage: Scarcity, Settler Colonialism, and Adaptation in Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow’, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021
- Or trapped outside of history? Darryl Cronin, Trapped by History: The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
- Indigenous resistance against settler terraforming: Michael Dockry, Kyle Whyte, ‘Improving on Nature: The Legend Lake Development, Menominee Resistance, and the Ecological Dynamics of Settler Colonialism’, American Indian Quarterly, 45, 2, 2021, pp. 95-120
- Settler violence is also sexual violence: Mythili Rajiva, ‘A comparative analysis of White and Indigenous girls’ perspectives on sexual violence, toxic masculinity and rape culture’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2021
- Settler ideal communities: Emily R.M. Lind, The White Settler Colonial Landscape of Toronto’s Wychwood Park, PhD dissertation, Carleton University 2021
- Secular settlers: Stacey Gutkowski, ‘Secular feelings, settler feelings: the case of Palestine/Israel’, Religion, State and Society, 2021
- Settler colonialism and its environments: Roberta Biasillo, ‘Socio-ecological colonial transfers: trajectories of the Fascist agricultural enterprise in Libya (1922-43)’, Modern Italy, 2021
- Again, on distinguishing colonies and settler colonies: Krishan Kumar, ‘Colony and Empire, Colonialism and Imperialism: A Meaningful Distinction?’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2021
- The settlers look to the stars: R. A. Rosenfeld, ‘Exploring the History of Colonialism and Astronomy in Canada’, Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 117, 2, 2021, pp. 89-95
- Settlers steal children now: Theresa Rocha Beardall, Frank Edwards, ‘Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare, SOCArXiv, 2021
- Settler colonialism as infrastructural mediation: Rafico Ruiz, Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, Duke University Press, 2021
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