Abstract: Historians, sociologists and other scholars claim that enslavement of African peoples funded the “dispossession and removal” of American Indians. This is false. After 1492, enslavement and murder of American Indians funded dispossession and removal of American Indians. More recently, the Civil War ended (and many Black peoples were freed) because the U.S. military chose […]

Abstract: Rez gothic aesthetics sit at the intersection of rez aesthetics and the gothic and speak to Native American and Indigenous experiences of the world. Their location in everyday Native life produces an ambivalence about binaries like good/bad, beauty/ugly, and comfort/fright that prevent simple associations between the rez and tragedy and Native American and Indigenous […]

Abstract: Social scientists have only recently come to explore in depth the ways in which the work that they do, the knowledge that they produce, and the ways in which they undertake these activities have emerged within and influenced colonialism. This article explores the role of social scientists in one federal government initiative introduced after […]

6Abstract: This article examines Palestinian anti-colonial violence from within the lived experience of colonisation, starting not with the act itself, but from the oppressive spaces that have already formed the colonised perception of being-in-the-world. Unlike juridical, liberal and security-centred approaches, it starts from how the Palestinian body has been produced as conditionally recognisable, by drawing […]

Abstract: Via an examination of comparative approaches to radically violent societies such as Nazi Germany and colonial Australia, this article investigates how German representations of Australian state racism shed light on the similarities and differences between the Holocaust and frontier violence in Australia. Indicative of these German views, it suggests, were those of government officials […]

Abstract: This article critically assesses the analytical utility of the Settler Colonial Studies (SCS) paradigm to make sense of sociopolitical realities in the Andean sub-region. It contends that the foundational ‘settler-Indigenous’ binary of SCS – predicated on Patrick Wolfe’s ‘logic of elimination’ – reproduces a long-standing discursive tradition in the sub-region that grants Indigeneity a […]

Abstract: How does logocentrism, which rests on the strict separation between speech and writing and posits Indigenous peoples as “peoples without writing,” erase Indigenous sovereignty, both historically and at the present? In this essay, I take up Jacques Derrida’s critique of European logocentrism that he develops through a critique of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s account of writing […]

Description: The Politics of Traditional Culture under Australian Settler Colonialism 1963–2007 interrogates the deployment of the term ‘traditional culture’ within Indigenous affairs discourse from the 1963 Bark Petitions to the 2007 Northern Territory Intervention. In so doing, this critically important book establishes how a shifting and malleable discourse on Aboriginality operated as a key method […]

Abstract: This article introduces settler toxicity: the symbolic charge that lodges itself in Indigenous cultural-material worlds through their passage through settler institutions, producing real harm through institutional and epistemic vectors rather than particle matter. Drawing on participatory workshops with Palestinians engaging with objects from one depopulated village, it documents three components through which settler toxicity […]

Abstract: This article examines Palestinian children at the nexus of settler-colonial control and genocidal violence, foregrounding their capacities to resist, reconstitute life, and sustain childhood under extreme dispossession. Building on the concept of unchilding, it shows how children are targeted by colonial and genocidal violence while also interrupting these processes through their bodies, spatial practices, […]