« South Africa’s settler colonialism: Thiven Reddy, ‘South Africa and the crisis of liberal democracy: Settler-colonial modernity and a dominant friend-enemy conception of politics’, in Jürgen Mackert, Hannah Wolf, Bryan S. Turner (eds), The Condition of Democracy, Routledge, 2021
Possibly, but lamenting settler colonialism without knowing them is like trying to overcome capitalism without referencing the bourgeoisie: Amy Fung, ‘Is Settler Colonialism Just Another Study of Whiteness?’ Canadian Ethnic Studies, 53, 2, 2021, pp. 115-131 »

Settler ‘democracy’ and Indigenous constituencies: David A. Armstrong, Christopher Alcantara, John Kennedy, ‘Exploring the effects of electorate size on indigenous voter turnout’, Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2021

28May21

Abstract: A growing body of scholarship suggests that Indigenous peoples abstain from voting in national and subnational elections because of colonialism and so classic determinants of turnout do not apply. We investigate this argument by examining the relationship between electorate size and voter turnout in federal, provincial and regional elections in five Inuit communities in Canada, leveraging the fact that these communities are mostly similar across a range of factors. Given that these communities negotiated and established their own regional government in 2005 and given the colonial and settler nature of the federal and provincial governments, we expect classic determinants of turnout, such as electorate size, to apply only at the regional level. Surprisingly, however, we find that electorate size influences turnout at the federal and regional levels but not at the provincial level.


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