Abstract: This critical theory paper reflects on my personal experience conducting my dissertation research in the discipline of engineering education with my Native Hawaiian community. There are inherent tensions that I constantly negotiate in my research practices to find ways to operate within our settler colonial discipline as someone who wants to make visible, resist, […]

Description: How Indigenous communities are transforming the idea and practice of reparations through their laws and leadership. In recent decades, a growing number of Indigenous groups across Canada have initiated movements for colonial reparations. Too often, the settler state has responded by attempting to enfold their work into a narrative of reconciliation that consigns colonialism […]

Abstract: In 1933, the first prize at the colonial literature competition promoted by the Portuguese colonial propaganda agency was awarded to Henrique Galvão’s novel O Velo d’Oiro (The Golden Fleece). The book, which can be read as an invitation to European settlement in the African colonies, immediately became a bestseller.

Except: This essay turns to Black Reconstruction to elucidate the ways in which the economic and libidinal force of such a wage is equally at work in Palestine/ Israel, where, I argue, the Zionist project of settler colonialism (with its blatant anti-Palestinianness) relies on the wage of Jewishness in a way analogous to the dynamics […]

Abstract: When John Henrik Clarke argued that Europe had not only colonized the world, it had colonized information about the world, he had seized upon a reality critical to any real understanding of the function of Western social science. In order for settler colonialism to proceed, it had to interrupt and reimagine knowledge and impose […]

Excerpt: Drawing from three years of ethnographic research on solar projects in NYC, I will show how this mode of market-based self-making is informed by settler imaginaries of societal progress vis-à-vis spatialized transformations when what is known as “the narrative structure of the frontier myth” organizes “entrepreneurial affects”.

Abstract: From the Bone Wars of the late nineteenth century to the Jurassic Park franchise, dinosaurs have maintained a persistent place in the American cultural imaginary. Historians of science and culture have developed an extensive body of scholarship on the extraction of dinosaur fossils during the long Gilded Age. Cultural historians have examined the allure […]

Abstract: In this article, I interrogate the theoretical architecture that underpins three increasingly influential normative prescriptions for a just political configuration in Israel–Palestine: reconciliation, decolonization of relationships, and egalitarian bi-nationalism (RDB-N). Although recent scholarship has attempted to integrate them into a shared framework, they remain insufficiently articulated, delaying the emergence of a transformative praxis. Here, […]

Abstract: The lands and waters now called Australia have been home to diverse political ordering and institutions for thousands of generations. The comparatively very recent arrival of settlers and the violent imposition of their political structures and institutions have forced First Nations to respond to, adapt to, resist, and refuse colonial authority. While the settler […]

Description: Henry David Thoreau’s life-long fascination with Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of interest, and it is also a source of modern debate. This is a figure who both had a deep interest in Native American history and culture and was seen by many of his contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson […]