Abstract: This article examines the legacies of racism and settler colonialism in contemporary Chile by examining political discourses in the context of the country’s failed Constitutional reform process. We analyze newspaper articles during the period of the first progressive and the second conservative constitutional projects, which were both rejected in popular referendums in 2022 and […]

Abstract: This graduate thesis involves a retelling of the history of the now defunct Canton Insane Asylum, built in the early 20th century located in Canton, South Dakota. It was America’s first federal psychiatric facility dedicated exclusively for American Indians. The Canton Insane Asylum for American Indians is a touchstone whose microhistory reflects larger political […]

Excerpt: The transmission of food culture is a long, slow, organic process, an immersive experiential learning communicated across generations and across frontiers, with ruptures due to emigration, war, and displacement. The contributions to this second special edition of the Jerusalem Quarterly devoted to Palestinian food and foodways draw attention to the role of women, men, […]

Abstract: Indiana Magazine of History assistant editor Justin Hawkins examines the transformations in how the IMH has covered Indigenous history from its 1905 founding until the current one-hundred-and-twentieth volume. During its first six decades of publication, the journal evolved from an open celebration of Native American Removal to a silent marginalization of Indigenous history. In […]

Abstract: Despite the increasing acceptance of Indigenous Nation Building (INB) practice in Australia, pervasive questions remain about the nature and operation of Indigenous self-government. This paper offers a descriptive and hypothetical model to conceptualise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nation selfgovernment both within and outside of the ‘Indigenous Sector’. It argues that from the perspective […]

Abstract: This paper examines the intricate dynamics of accountability within the context of historical and political power imbalances in the Palestine-Israel relationship. It explores the paradoxical nature of accountability in settler-colonial contexts, focusing on why accountability mechanisms frequently fail to serve Indigenous populations. Using empirical illustrations of revenue-sharing mechanisms, the study reveals how the settler […]

Excerpt: Zahi Zalloua’s Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause (2023) is well worth reading. In chapters on identification and surveillance, occupation and colonization of thought, ressentiment and paranoia, and sovereignty, the book offers an urgent, vitally intelligent critical-theoretical take on “Palestine”—I scare-quote the word to mark its overdetermined multivalence, its simultaneous signification as subjectivity, ethnicity, conflict, political-cultural cause, […]

Description: In America’s collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York’s modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of […]

Abstract: Globally, Indigenous languages face specific challenges to their revitalisation. In this article, I explore the ongoing barrier of settler colonialism to the revitalisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language). Through engaging in affective-discursive analysis of semi-structured interviews with twenty-two young Māori men, this article focuses on how young Māori take up or reject […]

Abstract: This article examines the emergence of student encampments protesting university complicity with Israeli occupation of Palestine. It analyzes these encampments as sites of resistance, highlighting their disruption of university space and their challenge to administrative authority. The encampments’ use of barricades and their occupation of central campus locations are interpreted as acts of counter-enclosure, […]