Excerpt: Tracing how states see Indigenous peoples—and to what ends—I argue that state vision is not merely about managing populations but is structured by settler-colonial logics of dispossession and the erasure of Indigenous life (Jacobs 2018). I use the term settler surveillance to highlight these settler logics that undergird contemporary surveillance regimes. By settler colonial, I […]

Abstract: Native nations in the United States hold inherent sovereignty. Yet, many White Americans oppose this political authority. Drawing on thematic analysis of open-ended survey responses from 558 White Americans reacting to 10 real-world sovereignty scenarios, we identify the ideological mechanism through which this opposition works, which we call inclusive elimination. Inclusive elimination dissolves Native […]

Abstract: This paper employs psychoanalytic theory and autotheoretical methodology to examine how Zionist discourse reproduces the very antisemitic structures it claims to oppose. Drawing on Klein, Winnicott, Bion, and Green, I argue that Zionism functions as a collective false-self formation—a defensive identity structure that emerged from historical trauma but now operates through melancholic incorporation rather […]