« Settler colonising ceremony itself: Stacie Swain, ‘Ceremony and the symbolic re-appropriation of indigeneity: A feminist critique of settler colonialism in a progressive liberal democratic nation-state’, in Kathleen McPhillips, Naomi Goldenberg (eds), The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State, Routledge, 2020
Settler possessions: Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, ‘Possessing Land, Wind and Water in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca’, Australian Feminist Studies, 2021 »

Parallel intifadas: Chandni Desai, ‘Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2021

10May21

Abstract: This article explores the resurgence of Indigenous/Palestine solidarity during the Wet’suwet’en land sovereignty struggle in Canada that took place around the same time Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” was released in early 2020. Historicizing this resurgence within a longer period of anti-colonial resistance, the article attends to the distinct historical, political-economic, and juridical formations that undergird settler colonialism in Canada and Israel/Palestine. It contends with the theoretical limits of the settler-colonial framework, pushing back against narratives of settler success, and shows how anti-colonial resistance accelerated economic crises that led both settler states to enter into “negotiations” with the colonized (reconciliation in one case, and peace talks in the other) as a strategy to maintain capitalist settler control over stolen lands. The analysis also sheds light on a praxis of solidarity that has implications for movement building and joint struggle.


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