Abstract: This paper uses intimate geopolitics to disrupt the focus of ‘rural as white’ narratives in rural geographies. ‘Rural as white’ narratives have evolved from settler colonialism, systemic racism, Orientalism, and institutionalised genocide and enslavement that shape and uphold geopolitical positions of the United States. Meanwhile, intimate geopolitics, particularly Pain’s (2021) concept of geotrauma, has […]

Abstract: This paper asserts that critiques of political science for neglecting Indigenous politics highlight a critical gap that risks overlooking significant conceptual and practical innovations. It emphasizes how Indigenous autonomy claims challenge traditional notions of sovereignty. Scholars of Indigenous politics in Latin America, publishing in area studies journals, provide essential insights into these autonomy claims […]

Abstract: This paper examines the case of Western Sahara through the lens of settler colonial studies. A former Spanish colony in northern Africa, Western Sahara is most often described as ‘occupied’ by Morocco since 1975. I aim at shifting this narrative by applying settler colonial theory, more specifically Veracini’s concept of transfer, to the relation […]

Description: In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but also about the relations […]

Abstract: Through the figure of journalist and philanthropist Edward Wilson (1813–1878), this article explores the settler-colonial dimensions of the mid-nineteenth century acclimatisation movement in Australia. In the latter half of the 1850s, Wilson became obsessed with the new science of acclimatisation, which promoted the transportation of plants and animals across the planet for a variety […]

Abstract: This paper illuminates the role of Indigenous and refugee autobiographies in serving as a radical critique of the settler colonial state. We examine the origins of self-writing in the creation of the nations of the United States and Australia before undertaking a closer examination of the proliferation of memoirs in late twentieth century and […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the complicated relationship between land, sovereignty, identity, and belonging at both the individual and tribal level in the Choctaw diaspora from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Tribal members of what are today the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians (Louisiana), the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, […]

Abstract: Colonization processes have resulted in the naturalization and universalization of a particular Eurocentric construction of political ordering. As a result, Indigenous claims of sovereignty – especially significant in settler colonial contexts since the 1960s and 1970s – have historically been obfuscated and are still construed as anomalies or impossibilities. Based on poststructuralist international relations […]

Abstract: The history of Indigenous peoples’ liberation and decolonization movements have been undertheorized within—when not simply omitted from—histories of the Global South. The applicability of the decolonization framework and the limits of Third World solidarities have often been fraught with respect to Indigenous peoples’ movements, despite an overlapping, if not shared, heritage of decolonizing discourses […]

Description: Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life – scientifically, ethically, politically – and the moral and technological possibilities of terraforming and the impulse for exploration are all fused. Science fiction, and the genres that preceded and grounded […]