Abstract: Folklore studies has a distinguished history that also includes unintended harms due to past practices. Folklorists have learned lessons from past practices and are actively engaged in meaningful and purposive methodologies of understanding and shared knowledge. A Native American perspective offers insights into past harms but does so in the service of respectful and […]

Abstract: Since the beginning of the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), Indigenous Peoples have been frequently denied participation in the formal meetings of the UN as representatives of their Peoples, constituted by their respective governments. Instead, they have been participating formally under the UN System under the auspices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), […]

Abstract: Despite growing literatures on the intersection between narrative testimony, persistent marginalization, and public storytelling as democratic, legal, and therapeutic resource for survivors of mass political violence (see Kirmayer, Gone, and Moses, ‘Rethinking Historical Trauma’, among others), there is little empirical understanding of the importance of creating socio-legal mechanisms for testimony and storytelling in overcoming […]

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Abstract: In what follows, I share a story. Emerging from engagement with critical autoethnography and danced movement as methodology during my doctoral research, my story explores the complex terrain of my sense of belonging as a Pākehā, or White woman of settler-colonial descent, in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by scholars who have […]

Description: The ongoing devastation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, alongside the systematic destruction of Palestinian universities, has coincided with intensified censorship and repression within Western academic institutions. These developments reveal the distinctive position that Zionism and its defense has held for decades within Western imperial structures, creating patterns of epistemic injustice. Palestine and […]

Description: In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object  Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel’s founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place […]

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Excerpt: Scholasticide is the deliberate destruction of an educational system and its institutions. The term was first coined by Karma Nabulsi, a Palestinian Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an expert on the laws of war. The immediate context was Operation Cast Lead of December 2008, the first major Israeli assault on the Gaza […]

Abstract: Despite Chile’s recent failed attempts at constitutional reform, Indigenous land rights are (still) governed by the much-contested Indigenous Law of 1993 (Law No. 19,253). The land restitution program foreseen in this law is extremely slow and controversial, and the establishment of Indigenous territories (by ordinary law) appears far from reality. At the same time, […]