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The narrative of the settler: Caroline Lund, ‘Settler-Colonial Theory and the Erasure of the Other: Constructing Hegemonic Narratives’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 22, 2, 2023

05Oct23

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 Israel and ‘unlawful organisations’ in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) as of late 2021.This case study shows that the inner logic of settler-colonialism, as it is organized around the principle of elimination, has been central to the designation of the six organisations. As the role of Palestinian civil society and political leadership has changed significantly in recent decades, the settler polity has been presented with an excellent opportunity to build and disseminate a false ‘terrorist’ narrative around the Palestinian civil society. Through different stages of expansion and dispossession, this narrative has been based on a perspective of exceptionalism and denial. As such, the construction of this narrative has served as an advancement of the erasure of native narratives, while at the same time legitimising the settler project itself and its utilised strategies.


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The language of the settler: Muhammad Amara, ‘Settler-Colonialism, Israelisation and Learning Hebrew in School from an Early Age: Attitudes of Indigenous Palestinian-Arab Parents in Israel’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 22, 2, 2023

05Oct23

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 Palestine. Hebrew language education among Palestinian-Arab pupils has undergone radical changes regarding when and why they should begin learning the language. These topics have not been treated sufficiently in the existing literature. This paper will examine the perceptions of the parents of young Palestinian-Arab pupils regarding learning Hebrew from kindergarten onwards. Using a semi-structured interview protocol carried out via Zoom, eighteen parents were interviewed about various issues related to learning Hebrew from an early age, and the arising results were subsequently analysed. The issues concerned pedagogical, social, economic, political, and ideological factors influencing the parents’ perceptions of the topic under analysis: a) a need — integrating into Israeli society; b) a difficulty — Hebrew as a burden on the learner; and c) impingement — maintenance of, and threats to Palestinian-Arab identities.


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‘Sovereign’ settlers; sovereign Indigenous peoples: Madi Day, Bronwyn Carlson, ‘So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement’, Humanities, 2023

05Oct23

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 from far-right and white supremacist Christian ideology circulated via new media. Using anti-colonial discourse analysis, we elucidate the undercurrent of white supremacist ideology in the Australian anti-vax movement, and highlight the misuse of Indigeneity in far-right and anti-vax narratives. We discuss how these narratives are settler-colonial and how conspiritualists co-opt and perform Indigeneity as a form of settler nativism. As a case study, we analyse the use of the term sovereignty by settlers attached to Muckadda Camp—a camp of ‘Original Sovereigns’ occupying the lawn outside Old Parliament house from December 2021 to February 2022. Using Indigenous critique from both new media and academia, we argue that although settlers may perform Indigeneity, they are exercising white supremacist settler narratives, and not Indigenous sovereignty.


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A monument to settler colonialism? Briony Neilson, ‘Power, pacification and legacies of French colonialism in New Caledonia: public statues and Nouméa’s memoryscape’, Modern & Contemporary France, 2023

05Oct23

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 and settler communities to a close. The inauguration of the new monument, 34 years to the day since the signing of the agreement, comes at a time of considerable uncertainty in terms of New Caledonia’s relationship to France. In some ways, the monument’s appearance signals a major shift in the memoryscape of the archipelago generally and Nouméa in particular. But at the same time, the new statue is less progressive than it might at first appear. Indeed, its significance rests not only in what it represents but also in what it effectively obscures. This article offers an account and analysis of the erection of the new Tjibaou–Lafleur statue, positioning the monument both within a historical context of public statuary in New Caledonia and the contemporary context of evolving relations between Kanak and non-indigenous populations.


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Call for papers: New Voices in Settler Colonial Studies. Abstract deadline: 31 October 2023; Manuscript deadline: 01 June 2024

05Oct23

Editors: Magdalena Naum, Aarhus University/Lund University: magdalena.naum@cas.au.dk; Karl Jacoby, Columbia University: kj2305@columbia.edu

Submit your paper here.


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The imagination of Chinese settler colonialism: Shuk Man Leung, ‘Crossing the Border: Chinese Settler Colonialism and a Borderless National Imagination’, in: Utopian Fiction in China, Brill, 2023, pp. 221-250

04Oct23

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Pure recognition isn’t: Wes Furlotte, ‘Towards a Dialectical Critique of Pure Recognition: Settler-Colonialism Within the Affluence of Canadian Society’, in Taylor Hines, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Robert E. Kirsch, Terry Maley (eds), The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times: Marcuse’s Thought in the Neoliberal Era, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 211-238

04Oct23

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 the settler-colonial state that is Canada.


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Mutual futurity against settler colonialism: Jessi Quizar, ‘Mutual Futurity: Rethinking Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom’, Theory, Culture & Society, 2023

04Oct23

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 and Indigenous Studies that have calcified into impasses, focusing particularly on Afropessimist and Settler Colonial Studies’ framings of either slavery/anti-Blackness or settler colonialism as the foundational violence around which a racist/settler modernity is structured. This article argues that approaches that emphasize relationality and the co-determination of settler colonialism and anti-Black racism can help us to think beyond a Black/Native impasse and towards a mutual futurity for both Black and Indigenous people in living in the place we currently call the United States.


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Indigenous jurisdiction in the way of settler colonialism: Megan Peres, The Relationship Between State Funded Resource Development Infrastructure and Indigenous Jurisdiction: An Analysis of Two Development Projects in Nunavut, Canada, MA dissertation, University of Guelph

04Oct23

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 between Indigenous jurisdiction and resource development infrastructure (RDI). Specifically, it aims to understand how two current infrastructure projects in Nunavut engage Inuit jurisdiction. RDI is intended to expand access to resources for extraction, especially in remote areas. The findings suggest that resource development infrastructure developed with Inuit organizations as proponents is a method through which the settler state manages the threat posed by Inuit jurisdiction to expand access to Inuit lands. This research provides a foundation for further Indigenous-led, empirical, and theoretical research on ongoing settler colonialism and publicly funded resource development infrastructure in Canada that could help illuminate pathways toward decolonization.


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This should be a very short book, as by definition there can be no settler indigeneity (settlers are made by movememt and conquest): Rachel Z. Feldman, Ian McGonigle (eds), Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023

01Oct23

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 transnational settler-colonial histories.


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