« If settler colonialism is about reproducing a social body in the place of another, the settler polity is an empire of homes: Kathryn Kish Sklar, ‘Reconsidering Domesticity through the Lens of Empire and Settler Society in North America’, The American Historical Review, 124, 4, 2019, pp. 1249–1266
Considering settler colonialism in the making of ‘crimmigration’: Louise Boon-Kuo, ‘”Race”, Crimmigration and the Deportation of Aboriginal Non-citizens’, in Peter Billings (ed.), Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics, and Society, Springer, 2019, pp. 39-62 »

Responsibility is about crafting a response: Rebekah Garrison, ‘Settler Responsibility: Respatialising Dissent in “America” Beyond Continental Borders’, Shima Journal, 13, 2, 2019, pp. 56-75

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Abstract: Settler responsibility is a worldview grounded in profound relationships, exchanges, and solidarities between Indigenous and non-native communities. When put into practice, settler responsibility requires constant collaboration, articulation, and radical care to support a rich re-envisioning of peace and justice. Through a critique of white settler colonial discourse, I demonstrate that shared histories of US imperialism link Caribbean and Pacific Islands. Building upon kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui’s notion of kuleana consciousness, I argue that decolonial awareness in local spaces is a necessary step towards creating better worlds. Applying the Hawaiian concept of kuleana, my qualitative and archival findings from Bieke (Vieques), Guåhan (Guam), and Hawaiʻi calls settlers to deepen our approaches and ethical responsibilities to the Indigenous peoples whose lands we occupy. Bringing to the fore that Indigenous movements for demilitarisation respatialise dissent in “America” beyond continental borders, I seek to raise white settler consciousness about our own ignorance of these islands, histories, and peoples.


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