Abstract: This thesis studies how courts encounter and engage with Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) in litigation pursued by Indigenous communities in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The thesis advances IEJ as a principle that may be framed, used and developed in juridical spaces. The research draws from existing scholarship, primarily Indigenous scholarship, and offers an intellectual […]

Excerpt: In addition to belonging to Dakota people who faced a genocidal settler assault that began in the mid-nineteenth century, I am a horror film aficionado with a macabre sense of humour. In this talk, I am informed by the concept of Indigenous elimination, most notably written about by the late Patrick Wolfe in the […]

Abstract: Heritage professionals across Canada and around the world are beginning to explore how decolonization can be applied to museum exhibits, collections, and programing. The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM), which was founded by survivors in 1979 and launched its current permanent exhibit in 2003, recently announced that it will be relocating to a new building […]

Abstract: Canadian philanthropic foundations are increasingly engaged in reconciliation-focused activities with Indigenous peoples. However, reconciliation can uphold colonial relations if care is not taken to support the resurgence of inherent Indigenous governance systems. I therefore argue that to the extent that Canada and the philanthropic community are serious about decolonizing their relationships with Indigenous nations, […]

Excerpt: Who is ‘the Settler’? What does this category animate and what does it bely? Despite the vast scholarship on histories of settler colonisation, the complex figure of the settler remains largely taken for granted. This lends itself to a banal decolonial politics that urgently requires critique.

Abstract: This research brief shares reflections on the author’s recent book Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education. The book traces how US universities were built on and continue to reproduce settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy, in material and epistemic ways.

Abstract: This article centers two “zones of sovereignty” that Maya Chuj youth organizers and educators in Guatemala and the United States created from within and across nation-states and settler colonial projects. It highlights how these spaces supported Chuj young people and educators as they navigated and (re)imagined relationality and belonging across transnational and diaspora spaces […]

Abstract: This chapter argues that despite numerous strategies, reports, and scholarship, Australian universities are still largely based on White Western worldviews and as a result continue to perpetrate and perpetuate settler colonial epistemic violence. To overcome the current settler colonial epistemic violence exerted by tertiary education providers, genuine relationships with First Nation peoples and communities […]

Abstract: In this article, we deploy two theoretical concepts—settler-colonial citizenship and transnational identities—to explore the complex facets of what we term “contemporary Moana mobilities.” Drawing on the Samoan methodology su’ifefiloi, which embraces Pacific forms of storytelling as sites of knowledge production, we provide three first-person vignettes that recount the experiences of a Samoan New Zealander […]

Abstract: This study is concerned with the possibility that Gladue perpetuates the hegemonic powers of settler colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and neoliberalism. Gladue is intended to remediate systemic anti-Indigenous racism by requiring judges to consider all alternatives to incarceration when sentencing Indigenous peoples, yet Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise precipitously. On the surface, Gladue […]