Abstract: In the years between the end of Greater Reconstruction and the start of the Great Migration, Black Americans founded communities across the Rocky Mountain West. Many of these towns prospered and grew during an era in which racial ideologies underwent profound realignment. As numerous scholars of race document, both national and regional politics along […]

Excerpt: Since 2016, the Republic of Turkey has conducted a series of air and ground military operations in the northern territories of the Syrian Arab Republic. The abducted motivation of these operations was the need to clear those areas of political organisations that threaten Turkish domestic security. The main target has been the Syrian Democratic […]

Abstract: While Jeju Island South Korea is internationally known for its longstanding anti-base movement at Gangjeong Village, the island’s modern history of resistance can be traced to 1991, when the South Korean government’s Special Act on Jeju-do Development ignited an extensive resistance movement. Two conceptual frameworks—colonization by development and political indigeneity—are employed to explain the […]

Abstract: Overincarceration of Indigenous peoples across North America is a critical and deep-rooted social issue. Racialized structural inequality are theorized to underpin racialized inequalities in carceral system outcomes including sentence length, monetary penalties, and supervision. Settler colonialism is theorized to underpin these inequalities per Native people. Taking structural settler colonialism for granted and applying the […]

Abstract: Unique among marginalized groups, American Indians are both citizens of the United States and citizens of sovereign tribal nations, as recognized (but not granted) by federal Indian law. However, even as tribal nations exert increasing economic and political power, criminal legal outcomes for tribal members—who interface with an array of tribal, local, state, and […]

Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship between indigenous peoples and their historical and cultural connections to the past. It critically examines the concept of “indigenous nostalgia”, demonstrating how indigenous groups are often seen as communities where nostalgia is expected to be found. Established concepts like “imperial nostalgia” focus on indigenous peoples as objects of remembrance […]

Abstract: Apocalypse is a persistent form of rhetoric that appears in moments of collective upheaval, a genre that sets up certain courses of action while discouraging others. As rhetoric scholars have recognized, premillennial Christian discourses influence our understanding of apocalypse as the prophetic foretelling of a “world-ending” event—to which the proper response is agreement with […]

Abstract: How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in which Asian Indigeneities become mobilised? To address this question, in 2017, I brought together scholars who are observing various settler-colonial and imperial dynamics and developments across Asia for a panel discussion titled ‘Asian Settler-Colonialisms and Indigeneities’ at the 116th annual American Anthropological Association […]

Description: This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity, and psychosocial therapy. Chapters centre […]

Excerpts: While investigations of the effects of colonization on Indigenous peoples at first contact in what is now known as the United States are numerous, most are focused on European white men as primary actors. With only a few exceptions, scholars have mostly ignored the unique roles of European white women. Most existing investigations exhibit […]