Abstract: This article explores how Israel, as a settler-colonial polity, uses and disseminates narratives pertaining to a Palestinian civil society and its resistance in order to further the settler-colonial project. For this purpose, the article is centred around a case study focusing on the six Palestinian civil society organisations that were designated ‘terrorist organisations’ in […]

Abstract: Considering the current policy and the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, teaching modern Hebrew from an early age to Palestinian-Arab pupils in Israel is a breakthrough in the Palestinian-Arab language education policy. It has far-reaching educational, cultural, political, and ideological consequences. The creation of modern Hebrew was central to the Zionist settler project in […]

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social and economic instability that followed, has given new life to conspirituality and far-right ideology in so-called Australia. This article discusses how politico-spiritual communities invested in both conspiracy theories and New Age spirituality have pieced together settler narratives about a New World Order and external threats to Western society […]

Abstract: In June 2022 a new public statue was unveiled in New Caledonia. The new statue, erected in the Place des Cocotiers in central Nouméa, depicts the famous handshake between Kanak separatist leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou and loyalist Caldoche leader Jacques Lafleur that had sealed the French-brokered Matignon Accords, bringing years of violent conflict between Indigenous […]

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Abstract: This chapter constitutes a sustained effort to interconnect seemingly disparate projects of critical social theory. More precisely, it seeks to substantiate the hypothesis that Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory and Glen Sean Coulthard’s critical Indigenous framework might be reciprocally coordinated to generate a comprehensive critical analysis of domination and colonial domination within the historical specificity of […]

Abstract: Engaging feminist and queer of color theory as well as work emerging from social movements, this piece critically examines narratives of impasse between Black Studies and Native Studies in the US, particularly assertions of incommensurability between the goals of Black freedom and Native sovereignty. The article outlines some of the theoretical debates between Black […]

Abstract: Canada is a resource-rich nation within a context of unfinished settler colonialism. The settler state is consistently working to manage the reality of Indigenous jurisdiction while attempting to assert sovereignty over the land. Indigenous jurisdiction threatens the settler state’s ability to extract value from the land. This research aims to understand the present-day relationship […]

Description: Exploring the ideas of “settler” and “indigenous” in the West Bank. Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Israeli settler organizations have used narratives of indigeneity to claim divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what indigeneity means to Israeli settlers, and how settler-indigeneity interacts with […]