Description: What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them? This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it […]

Abstract: Beginning in earnest in the 1990s, archaeologists have used the material record as an alternative window into the experiences and practices of Black and Indigenous peoples in North America from the sixteenth century onward. This now robust body of scholarship on settler colonialism has been shaped by postcolonial theories of power and broad-based calls […]

Abstract: Kali Simmons (@SimmonsKali) talks to The Red Nation Podcast co-hosts Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) and Nick Estes (@nickwestes) on the cultural links between settler colonialism and horror fiction and film. The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help […]

Description: This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization. Drawing from decades of collaboration with teachers and school […]

Abstract: There is a general consensus now in Australia that we are in the grip of a severe housing crisis. The characteristics of spiralling housing costs and deepening precarity are unfolding in a context of the systematic managed decline of public housing as a critical social infrastructure, such that the capacity to make and find […]

Excerpt: A peasant named Pakhom leaves his cramped Russian village in search of more land. He grows increasingly greedy, buying ever more of it, and ultimately perishes during his most spectacular transaction in the faraway imperial periphery of Bashkiria, famed for fire-sale prices. Pakhom stakes 1,000 rubles on a land parcel as large as he […]

Excerpt: Why were liberals incensed by Rachel Dolezal masquerading as Black but relatively untroubled by Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry? How does the anti-racist Left’s ritual rendition and interpretation of Bacon’s Rebellion and Radical Reconstruction constrain an adequate understanding of white supremacy in the US? In what ways is the election of Donald Trump […]

Abstract: The search for justice in Aotearoa New Zealand will depend, in part, on how we contend with and overcome the settler-colonial situation—in a word, it will be based on the struggle for decolonisation. This thesis aims to show how epistemic goals and hermeneutical practices are not incidental, but intrinsic to such political struggles. Focusing […]

Abstract: Beginning with Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” this paper unfolds a supplementary set of theses on the genealogy of a different concept (survival) and different figure (the survivor). Benjamin’s distinction between the “victor” and the “angel” serves as a binary framework for an understanding of the philosophical legacy of survival […]

Abstract: This is part two of a series of two papers exploring a project was conducted by two Australian Aboriginal researchers, one male and one female, and might be described as ‘reverse anthropology’, in the same way that people sometimes refer to positive discrimination as ‘reverse racism’. But we would just call it anthropology; a […]