Abstract: This chapter highlights the epistemic violence in Australian clinical legal education. Perhaps because clinical legal education is viewed as indelibly progressive, it has long escaped the attention of sustained decolonial analysis. This chapter addresses this void by providing four critiques of clinical legal education: its failure to acknowledge the lingering effects of settler colonialism, […]

Abstract: In the United Sates, happiness has mostly been studied from a Western perspective with the Indigenous American perspective mostly ignored. On the other hand, a deficit perspective is often taken with this population meaning that the literature on Indigenous Americans often focuses on ill-health and problems. This chapter explores the limited extant research—primarily from […]

Description: In Paraguay’s Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well‑being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons—a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter‑American Court […]

Abstract: This paper examines agrarian colonization as a distinctive state development policy in twentieth-century Latin America. After discussing its intellectual roots in the nineteenth century, the study explores post-World War II agrarian colonization policies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil. Proposing conviviality-inequality as an analytical lens, the paper contends that the concept of colonization, rooted in […]

Abstract: We ground the emergence of the Northeast North American university on the stolen territories of Indigenous nations in the Puritan historical context of their origins. In particular, we examine the concept of academic mentorship of people identified as emerging scholars. We show how academic mentorship within this unchallenged and continued Puritanical framework functions as […]

Abstract: On the 6 February 1840 at the first signings of the Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the British Crown, the pledge ‘he iwi tahi tātou’ ‘together we are a nation’ was attributed to Crown representative Lieutenant Governor William Hobson. That was allegedly corrected at the time by prominent chief Hone Heke, who noted […]