« Indigenous economies are shaped by racial capitalism and settler colonialism: Shiri Pasternak, ‘Assimilation and Partition: How Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism Co-produce the Borders of Indigenous Economies’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 119, 2, 2020, pp. 301-324
Not settler land: Lauren Kepkiewicz, ‘Whose Land? Complicating Settler Understandings of Land in Canada’, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 19, 1, 2020, pp. 245-269 »

Settler colonial infrastructure: Winona LaDuke, Deborah Cowen, ‘Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure’, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 119, 2, 2020, pp. 243-268

22Apr20

Excerpt: The question is how to move off the scorched path. In this writing, we suggest that choosing a good path requires the revolutionary but also profoundly practical work of infrastructure. At the center of the Wiindigo’s violence and destruction is infrastructure’s seemingly banal and technical world. Wiindigo infrastructure has worked to carve up Turtle Island, or North America, into preserves of settler jurisdiction, while entrenching and hardening the very means of settler economy and sociality into tangible material structures. 


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