Description: An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state. How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused? Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state […]

Abstract: Aim(s): This discursive article aims to examine how systemic factors (both) reproduce the structure of settler colonialism and influence health outcomes among Indigenous peoples in the United States through settler colonial determinants of Indigenous health (SCDoIH). Design: Discursive paper. Methods: This discursive paper demonstrates how settler colonialism and health relate to each other within […]

Abstract: Japan’s museums have been critiqued by local and foreign scholars for their representations of the Indigenous Ainu as primitive, non-coeval and depolitised of their resistance and revival movements. The Hokkaido Museum attempted to address this critique when they refurbished their galleries in 2015 by re-ordering the permanent exhibit on Hokkaido’s cultural, natural, economic and […]

Abstract: This chapter interrogates the key themes of this book in more depth, focusing on the relationship between bureaucracy, neoliberalism and colonialism. It argues that bureaucracy is implicated in ongoing practices of colonisation and racialisation – not in an incidental way but because modernist bureaucracies have always been a key technology mobilised as part of […]

Abstract: At the Los Angeles premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon on October 17th, 2023, Christopher Cote, an Osage consultant who worked on the film, expressed reservations about the depiction of the Osage and how their roles are attributed in the story. Because of Hollywood’s misrepresentation history, this comment echoed with issues that are […]

Abstract: Although attention to continuing and continuous structural elements of settler colonialism remains central to understanding the harms inflicted on Indigenous communities, there is always a risk that overfocusing on ‘a structure, not an event’ can leave little air for Indigenous actions and dynamism amid colonial systems of elimination and appropriation. Settler colonialism is not a […]

Abstract: When the Society of Jesus returned to Turtle Island in the 1840s after the suppression of their order in 1773, searching for and consolidating the records they had been forced to leave behind was of utmost importance. The first Jesuit archivists set out to copy legal documents from Jesuits in Europe, records of their […]

Abstract: Reimagining outer space as enclosed and privatized reinforces liberal property rights as universal and necessary to space programs. New space policies mark a return to terra nullius and a narrow conception of land-use that determines property rights. The liberal and colonial logic of property rights affirms hegemonic narratives of space as a limitless environment with no […]

Excerpt: Indigenous knowledge systems provide a comprehensive, interconnected framework for understanding health, wellness, and resilience, particularly through the relationship with land. Colonization severed many of these relationships, leading to cultural, psychological, and physical trauma among Indigenous peoples. The process of neurodecolonization offers a way to heal these historical and ongoing traumas by re-integrating traditional practices—grounded […]

Abstract: Urban land formalization, i.e., land titling and registration, is commonly viewed as a primary policy tool for addressing urban poverty and fostering socioeconomic and spatial development, especially in the urban informalities of the Global Southeast. While critical perspectives on urban land formalization highlight the threats and risks associated with the market-driven logic of land […]