Abstract: The core meaning of constituent power resonates with many historical traditions of Indigenous political thought and practice. Indigenous peoples continue to exercise constituent power through the (re-)constitution of political orders at multiple scales of governance, from the local to the global. These juris-generative practices are often grounded in Indigenous spirituality and treaty-making, affirming relations […]

Abstract: This article argues for the utility of a category I call ‘settler socialism.’ It traces the history of a series of intersecting nineteenth-century socialist projects that variously emerged in conversation with agrarian Republicanism and predicated the reorganization of gender and class relations on the eradication of indigenous people. This category allows us to see […]

Excerpt: When Renee Davis, a Black Indigenous Muckleshoot woman living on Muckleshoot land, which is located near Seattle, Washington, was shot and killed by police, she was not in the act of committing a crime, she was not being arrested, and she was not running away to avoid being arrested. In fact, the reason police […]

Abstract: Mukherjee demonstrates how we can apply postcolonial theory— which is more commonly used to consider film and liter a ture’s geopolitical, racial imaginaries, and power structures—to board games and their own icons of power, especially given the medium’s fondness for exploration and conquest.

Abstract: This article offers a corrective for how the concept of settler colonialism is often understood and used in research and commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For more than a decade, the term “settler colonialism” has become central to scholarly and activist discussions about Zionism, the Palestinians, and their ongoing conflict – especially after October […]

Description: Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, this book pinpoints a new environmental paradigm that the author calls Nature Remade. Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry has taken up the wilderness mythologies that shaped one strain of American environmentalism over the last century. Calling this twenty-first-century environmental imagination […]