« Settler colonialism is so instagrammable: Carrie Karsgaard, ‘Resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion in a Settler Colonial Context’, in Carrie Karsgaard, Instagram as Public Pedagogy: Online Activism and the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 21-74
The religion of settler colonialism (on the assimilation of indigeneity): Joseph Wiebe, Sydney Thackeray, ‘The Mennonite case for counter-sovereignty through Indigenous assimilation: Settler colonialism, self determination and relation to place in religious identity’, Studies in Religion, 2023 »

Settling on area studies: Jon Solomon, ‘Lucian Pye and the Foundations of Area Studies in White Settler Colonialism’, in Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Peter Button (eds), Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana, Routledge, 2023

28May23

Abstract: In the covenant around technological fetishism married to an aesthetic ideology of global transition, one detects the model of an unwritten social contract concerning global population management. This social contract is enjoined around the founding exclusions of race and class with which the fields of East Asian, and particularly China, studies have never reckoned to this day. In other words, the intelligibility of East Asian area studies becomes politically legible only as the palimpsest of white settler colonialism’s transformation into creedal nationalism without going through a process of decolonization. Postwar US creedal nationalism can only be fully understood from the perspective of the “Area Studies Social Pact” emblematized by Lucian Pye and Erik Erikson. Under cover of being devoted to the production of knowledge, Area Studies is, in truth, an apparatus for imperial population management.


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