settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonial education (STEM), II: D. Stinson, J. Subramanian, C. Yeh, ‘Llamado a interrogatorios críticos de la supremacía blanca y el colonialismo de los colonos en la investigación en educación matemática: Meterse en “problemas buenos, problemas necesarios”‘, Prometeica – Revista De Filosofía Y Ciencias, 2023, 27, pp. 231–240

31Jul23

Abstract: En este ensayo, contextualizamos un llamado para fortalecer la investigación sobre equidad y justicia social en la educación matemática al incorporar la empresa de educación matemática en dos eventos mundiales de 2020: la pandemia mundial de COVID-19 y el resurgimiento mundial del movimiento Black Lives Matter. Hacemos esto para subrayar cómo el colonialismo blanco está siempre presente en todas partes en las estructuras e instituciones de todo el mundo, incluidas las de la empresa de educación matemática. Describimos brevemente las lógicas de la supremacía blanca y el colonialismo de colonos y luego las combinamos en un esquema compuesto de lógicas colonizadoras de supremacía blanca. Aquí, presentamos una investigación reciente sobre educación matemática basada en los EE. UU. para ilustrar algunas posibilidades diferentes cuando la investigación sobre equidad y justicia social se fortalece a través de la interrogación crítica de la supremacía blanca y el colonialismo de los colonos. Concluimos el ensayo con una justificación para meterse en buenos problemas, problemas necesarios.

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Settler colonial education (STEM): A. M. K. Peters, ‘(Re)membering Indigenous Spirituality in Engineering Education: A Narrative Literature Review’, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2003

31Jul23

Abstract: Despite global and national calls and efforts to bring Indigenous knowledge and peoples into engineering and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, these populations continue to struggle in these fields because their ways of knowing are not recognized or legitimized due to settler colonialism. Consequently, Indigenous peoples view Indigenous knowledge and STEM education as two separate entities. Decolonization research is in the beginning stages to develop culturally relevant STEM education for Indigenous populations to heal their identities and bring back their knowledge and its motivations. This narrative literature review focuses on analyzing these implementations of reconnecting STEM education and Indigenous knowledge in North America using the research question: How has Indigenous knowledge of North America been (re)incorporated into culturally relevant STEM education? Using review procedures including specified database search terms and inclusion and exclusion criteria, I identified 20 articles focused around incorporating Indigenous knowledge into STEM education as a form of culturally relevant pedagogy. Using inductive coding and thematic analysis, I identified three themes: centering Indigenous ways of knowing, ensuring Elder involvement, and recognizing all knowledge holders. By comparing exemplary implementations of Indigenous knowledge into STEM education for all three themes, I illustrated the meaning and benefits of each. Finding the common thread between the three themes provides one answer for the research question. I propose spiritual knowledge as the binding thread that connects the themes and (re)connects Indigenous knowledge and STEM education. Spirituality can become a theorizing space to help with the decolonizing of engineering education by challenging the dominant knowledge types and bringing in other ways of knowing.

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Forgetting Bolshevik indigenisation: Botakoz Kassymbekova, Aminat Chokobaeva, ‘Expropriation, assimilation, elimination: Understanding Soviet Settler Colonialism’, south/south dialogues, 05/07/2023

27Jul23

Excerpt: The Soviet Union is often described as an empire with heavily centralized rule over a large multiethnic territory, which suppressed anti-imperial resistance (Kappeler, 2001). Yet many scholars view the Soviet Union as more similar to a multinational state that stopped discriminating between the former colonizers and the colonized (Khalid, 2021). But as we will argue in this essay, the Soviet Union shared more than a passing similarity with colonial empires: the key to understanding both the Soviet Union’s interventionist policies and its use of violence in the peripheries lies in the concept of settler colonialism. In this article, we present schematic principles of Soviet settler colonialism and open discussion for a further rethinking of the Soviet field through the lens of settler colonialism.

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Undermining the mission of settler colonialism: Abel R. Gomez, “’We Survived This’: California Missions, Colonialism, and Indigenous Belonging’, Political Theology, 2023

25Jul23

Abstract: The California mission system linked Spanish Catholic and political institutions. To secure land and convert Indigenous peoples, the Spanish built 21 missions from San Diego to Sonoma in the 18th and 19th centuries. These missions were sites of disease, violence, and mass death. They were also places built by Native people, on Native lands, where they lived, prayed, and were buried. As a result, missions are fundamentally Indigenous places and important touchstones for descendants today. This article examines such meanings in the lives of several Ohlone peoples, Indigenous peoples of the San Francisco-Monterey region. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Ohlone tribes, I argue that we can understand relationships they sustain with California missions by considering such places as Indigenous cemeteries, Indigenous churches, and especially both. While dominant narratives restrict “missionized” Indigenous peoples to an irrecoverable past, this paper theorizes California mission as sites of violence, survival, and belonging to homeland.

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The Monroe doctrine as a declaration of terra nullius: Caitlin Fitz, ‘The Monroe Doctrine and the Indigenous Americas’, Diplomatic History, 2023

25Jul23

Excerpt: In 1823, towards the end of Latin America’s independence wars, U.S. President James Monroe famously told Europe to stop messing around in the Americas. No new colonies, he warned, and no political meddling. The “political system” of monarchical Europe, he explained, was “essentially different” from that of the increasingly republican Americas; Europeans should mind their own business, and people in the United States would mind their own in return. Monroe devoted most of his address to what he twice called “the civilized world”—namely, the United States, Europe, and newly independent Spanish America. But those “civilized” powers, in turn, were fixated on their ostensibly uncivilized counterparts. Indeed, between the lines of Monroe’s message to Congress was a foundational geopolitical fact that scholars of the Monroe Doctrine have seldom if ever made explicit: in 1823, most of the Western Hemisphere was under Indigenous command. From the Amazon to the Arctic and from Patagonia to the Great Plains, Indigenous powers ruled most of the hemisphere’s inhabitable terrain even after centuries of European colonization and decades of transatlantic independence wars. Monroe’s mind was occupied by “the American continents,” as he called them; those continents, in turn, were occupied largely by Indigenous powers.

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Follow the trail of settler colonial ideas: Jennifer V. Evans, Swen Steinberg, David Yuzva Clement Danielle Carron, ‘Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries’, Central European History, 2023

23Jul23

Abstract: This article is part of the collaborative research project Populist Publics. Housed at Carleton University (www.carleton.ca/populistpublics), it applies a data-driven analysis of online hate networks to trace how false framings of the historical past, what we call historical misinformation, circulates across platforms, shaping the politics of the center alongside the fringes. We cull large datasets from social media platforms and run them through a variety of different programs to help visualize how harmful speech and civilizational rhetoric about race, ethnicity, immigration, multiculturalism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ rights are circulated by far-right groups across borders, noting specifically when and how they are taken up in the mainstream as legitimate discourse. Our interest is in how the distortion of the historical record is used to build alternative collective memories of the past so as to undermine minority rights and cultures in the present. We began with a basic question: To what extent is this actually new? As much as the atomized publics of our current day create ideal conditions for radical ideas to fester and circulate, it was obvious to us that we needed to look for linkages across time, drawing on interdisciplinary methods from the fields of history, media and communication, and data science to identify the tactics, strategies, and repertoires among such groups and individuals. By analyzing German-Canadian relations in particular, what follows is a first attempt to piece together some of these connections, with a focus on far-right hate groups—homegrown and imported—in the settler colonial project that is today’s Canada.

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Indigenous philosophies against settler beings of another world: Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (ed.), Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island, Broadview Press, 2023

20Jul23

Description: Ways of Being in the World is an anthology of the Indigenous philosophical thought of communities across Turtle Island, offering readings on a variety of topics spanning many times and geographic locations. It was created especially to meet the needs of instructors who want to add Indigenous philosophy to their courses but are unsure where to begin—as well as for students, Indigenous or otherwise, who wish to broaden their horizons with materials not found in the typical philosophy course. This collection is an invitation to embark on a relationship with Indigenous peoples through the introduction of their philosophical thoughts.

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Settlers want the land – all of it: Daniel Heath Justice, Jean M. O’Brien (eds), Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege, University of Minnesota Press, 2021

20Jul23

Description: More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands. Allotment Stories collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous resistance. Ranging from the historical to the contemporary and grappling with Indigenous land struggles around the globe, these narratives showcase both scholarly and creative forms of expression, constructing a multifaceted book of diverse perspectives that will inform readers while provoking them toward further research into Indigenous resilience.

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The new frontiers of settler climate colonialism: Mindy Jewell Price, ‘Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier’, Rural Sociology, 2023

20Jul23

Abstract: Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.

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The settler gaze, then and now: Luhui Whitebear, ‘Resisting the Settler Gaze: California Indigenous Feminisms’, Feminist Formations, 35, 1, 2023, pp. 97-116

20Jul23

Abstract: The settler gaze has created the conditions in which Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people experience high levels of violence both historically and in current times. This essay analyzes California Indigenous feminist resistance to the violences in the mission impacted region of the Californias. Toypurina, Bárbara Gandiaga, and Yaquenonsat are discussed as examples of California Indigenous feminist resistance to settler colonial systems that contributed to the murdered and missing Indigenous women, girl, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S+) crisis during their time period. These historic California Indigenous women are then compared with current efforts to address the MMIWG2S+ crisis in California and beyond. Counter-colonial Indigenous intergenerational storytelling is used as a methodology to read these stories and the settler records in order to resist the settler gaze.

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