Abstract: This roundtable documents emerging conversations on Indigenous politics and settler colonialism in Asia. It brings together a diverse group of emerging diasporic/Indigenous scholars from the Cordilleras, Surigao, Okinawa, and the Champa Kingdom to examine contemporary issues in Indigenous politics in Asia and their implications for broader conversations on Asian/American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies. […]

Abstract: A Riverside, California, schoolteacher taught the mnemonic sohchatoa to her high school mathematics class in the fall of 2021. The lesson plan included “playing Indian,” with a headdress, tomahawk chopping, and war whooping. She was previously featured in several yearbooks and the school’s social media accounts wearing her headdress. Although her performance went viral […]

Excerpt: Eiichiro Azuma and Greg Dvorak gift us with two important and richly researched books that deepen our understanding of how settler colonialism operates as a connective mechanism tying Japanese and US imperialisms. My response applies a concept from one study to the other; both questions stem from my interest in Blackness and the African […]

Abstract: Latin American and Caribbean literatures have increasingly turned to speculative genres to confront crises of ecology, race, and identity. Moving beyond the hegemony of magical realism, writers across the region employ Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms to reimagine futures historically denied to marginalized communities. This article situates these currents within the broader speculative turn in […]

Abstract: This article investigates how selected media commentators in Aotearoa New Zealand framed the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB). Drawing on a discourse analysis of opinion pieces in The New Zealand Herald, Stuff and Newstalk ZB, this paper examines the rhetorical and ideological work in selected media commentaries by prominent media professionals in Aotearoa. The analysis identifies three dominant media […]

Abstract: This volume examines migration to Australia through the critical lens of Indigenous sovereignty, arguing for a fundamental rethinking of migration studies within settler colonial contexts. While migration and Indigenous studies have developed largely in parallel, this book challenges that separation by foregrounding the entanglements between migrant arrivals and the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous lands […]

Description: This open access edited collection provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands. Via an assortment of critical reflections from settler colonial Australia, it identifies tensions between colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty as an increasingly salient topic of analysis within migration research. It poses challenges to migration research that takes place on […]

ABstract: In the early 20th century, Baltic German landowners recruited German farmers from Russia. The immigration of these farmers – at that time called “German colonists” – inspired a variety of colonial discourses.

Abstract: This essay considers the legal and literary construction of terra nullius through the early fiction of Australian author Gerald Murnane. Focusing on The Plains and “Land Deal,” I explore how Murnane puts to work settlercolonial myths of empty land, property, and possession. By staging rival ontologies of land between Indigenous custodianship and settler commodification, […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism was never inevitable in North America. It was always vulnerable to defeat at the hands of the colonized who waged anticolonial wars in defense of their territories and governance. Anticolonial war was the reminder of settler colonialism’s limits and weaknesses that its narratives of conquest disavowed. When US settlers invaded Indigenous lands […]