Abstract: Significant work conducted by Bentham scholars indicates that Benthamite ideas on penal reform were present in the Australian colonies. This has been demonstrated in part through discussions of a number of panoptic-inspired institutions across Australia. Despite this, there have been fewer debates on why the panopticon became a favoured tool for punishment in colonial […]

Abstract: This Traveller-led paper examines how settlement became the dominant institutional and cultural standard in Ireland. It distinguishes Gaelic habitation from colonial settlement and the later administrative division between Travellers and a settled majority. Drawing on historical documents, legislation, government reports and Traveller testimony, I examine changes in landholding, livelihood, schooling and public authority. Native […]

Description: Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory offers a critical, comparative engagement with North American Indigenous and dominant Euro-modern political traditions, and explores the irreconcilable differences between them. These differences disclose political options that cannot be pursued simultaneously or, in a word, disjunctures. For contemporary political societies committed to reconciliation, choices will have to be […]

Abstract: Historians, sociologists and other scholars claim that enslavement of African peoples funded the “dispossession and removal” of American Indians. This is false. After 1492, enslavement and murder of American Indians funded dispossession and removal of American Indians. More recently, the Civil War ended (and many Black peoples were freed) because the U.S. military chose […]

Abstract: Rez gothic aesthetics sit at the intersection of rez aesthetics and the gothic and speak to Native American and Indigenous experiences of the world. Their location in everyday Native life produces an ambivalence about binaries like good/bad, beauty/ugly, and comfort/fright that prevent simple associations between the rez and tragedy and Native American and Indigenous […]

Abstract: Social scientists have only recently come to explore in depth the ways in which the work that they do, the knowledge that they produce, and the ways in which they undertake these activities have emerged within and influenced colonialism. This article explores the role of social scientists in one federal government initiative introduced after […]

6Abstract: This article examines Palestinian anti-colonial violence from within the lived experience of colonisation, starting not with the act itself, but from the oppressive spaces that have already formed the colonised perception of being-in-the-world. Unlike juridical, liberal and security-centred approaches, it starts from how the Palestinian body has been produced as conditionally recognisable, by drawing […]

Abstract: Via an examination of comparative approaches to radically violent societies such as Nazi Germany and colonial Australia, this article investigates how German representations of Australian state racism shed light on the similarities and differences between the Holocaust and frontier violence in Australia. Indicative of these German views, it suggests, were those of government officials […]

Abstract: This article critically assesses the analytical utility of the Settler Colonial Studies (SCS) paradigm to make sense of sociopolitical realities in the Andean sub-region. It contends that the foundational ‘settler-Indigenous’ binary of SCS – predicated on Patrick Wolfe’s ‘logic of elimination’ – reproduces a long-standing discursive tradition in the sub-region that grants Indigeneity a […]

Abstract: How does logocentrism, which rests on the strict separation between speech and writing and posits Indigenous peoples as “peoples without writing,” erase Indigenous sovereignty, both historically and at the present? In this essay, I take up Jacques Derrida’s critique of European logocentrism that he develops through a critique of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s account of writing […]