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Focusing on settler colonialism in Palestine: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Israel-Palestine Through a Settler-Colonial Studies Lens’, Interventions, 2018

28Nov18

Abstract: This essay discusses the conflict in Israel-Palestine and its long-term evolution in the context of a settler colonial studies interpretive paradigm. It argues this analytical paradigm may offer valuable insights both in the interpretation of the historical evolution of the conflict and in the analysis of its current circumstances. The first section briefly outlines the possible benefits of such reframing; the second specifically targets exceptionalist claims.


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The analogical politics of transnational countries of settlement: Michael R. Fischbach, Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color, Stanford University Press, 2018

28Nov18

Description: The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of American newspapers. Black Power activists saw Palestinians as a kindred people of color, waging the same struggle for freedom and justice as themselves. Soon concerns over the Arab–Israeli conflict spread across mainstream black politics and into the heart of the civil rights movement itself. Black Power and Palestine uncovers why so many African Americans—notably Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali, among others—came to support the Palestinians or felt the need to respond to those who did.

Americans first heard pro-Palestinian sentiments in public through the black freedom struggle of the 1960s and 1970s. Michael R. Fischbach uncovers this hidden history of the Arab–Israeli conflict’s role in African American activism and the ways that distant struggle shaped the domestic fight for racial equality. Black Power’s transnational connections between African Americans and Palestinians deeply affected U.S. black politics, animating black visions of identity well into the late 1970s. Black Power and Palestine allows those black voices to be heard again today.

In chronicling this story, Fischbach reveals much about how American peoples of color create political strategies, a sense of self, and a place within U.S. and global communities. The shadow cast by events of the 1960s and 1970s continues to affect the United States in deep, structural ways. This is the first book to explore how conflict in the Middle East shaped the American civil rights movement.


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The settler psychologist needs training: Ruth Nelson, Dei Phillips, ‘Borderlands: an Australian Duo-Ethnography of First Nations and Western Psychology’, Human Arenas, 2018

28Nov18

Abstract: The purpose of this work is to articulate, for other Western psychologists, learnings about the ways in which hegemonic Western psychology is a colonising practice, and how cultural humility can enable a space in which First Nations knowledge is given preference. Using duo-ethnography as a method of dialogical qualitative inquiry, we explore the cultural interface of First Nations knowledge and Western psychology in Australia. The story of a First Nations educator and activist, from the Bundjalung nation, explores borders in culture, geography and language. The story of a white psychologist examines colonisation and genocide in Australia, and the emergence of Western psychology from systems that subjugate First Nations Peoples. Using border theory, we create a dialogical space between these stories, forming a borderland that facilitates the development of cultural humility for the white psychologist.


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Asian settlers: Yu-Ting Huang, ‘Writing Settlement: Locating Asian-Indigenous Relations in the Pacific’, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4, 2, 2018, pp. 25-36

25Nov18

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On binaries and nonbinaries (which, the cunning of dialectics, is itself a binary): Dean Itsuji Saranillio, ‘Haunani-Kay Trask and Settler Colonial and Relational Critique: Alternatives to Binary Analyses of Power’, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4, 2, 2018, pp. 36-44

25Nov18

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‘Settlers are not migrants’ … Laura Madokoro, ‘Peril and possibility: A contemplation of the current state of migration history and settler colonial studies in Canada’, History Compass, 2018

25Nov18

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the trajectory of research on immigration history, now migration history, in Canada over the past 50 years and highlights recent points of intersection with the newly established field of settler colonial studies. The article concludes by positing questions about the possibility of building on these points of intersection and dissension in future research in these fields.


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‘Settlers come to stay’ … Laura Madokoro ‘On future research directions: Temporality and permanency in the study of migration and settler colonialism in Canada’, History Compass, 2018

25Nov18

Abstract: Building on the historiography surrounding existing studies of migration and settler colonialism in Canada, this article considers possible future research directions in these fields with a few to squaring epistemological differences in how the permanency and implications of human movement are understood.


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Governing is peopling: Ben Silverstein, Governing natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia’s north, Manchester University Press, 2018

25Nov18

Description: In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia’s Northern Territory. This book examines archives and texts of colonial administration to study the emergence of ideas and practices of indirect rule in this unlikely colonial situation. It demonstrates that the practice of indirect rule was everywhere an effect of Indigenous or ‘native’ people’s insistence on maintaining and reinventing their political formations, their refusal to be completely dominated, and their frustration of colonial aspirations to total control. These conditions of difference and contradiction, of the struggles of people in contact, produced a colonial state that was created both by settlers and by the ‘natives’ they sought to govern.

By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to crises of social reproduction, public power, and legitimacy, they rethought the scope of settler colonial government by drawing on both the art of indirect rule and on a representational economy of Indigenous elimination to develop a new political dispensation that sought to incorporate and consume Indigenous production and sovereignties. This book locates Aboriginal history within imperial history, situating the settler colonial politics of Indigeneity in a broader governmental context. Australian settler governmentality, in other words, was not entirely exceptional; in the Northern Territory, as elsewhere, indirect rule emerged as part of an integrated, empire-wide repertoire of the arts of governing and colonising peoples.


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An act of settler colonialism: Mary-Ellen Kelm, Keith D. Smith, Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories, University of Toronto Press, 2018

21Nov18

Description: Talking Back to the Indian Act is a comprehensive “how-to” guide for engaging with primary source documents. The intent of the book is to encourage readers to develop the skills necessary to converse with primary sources in more refined and profound ways. As a piece of legislation that is central to Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities, and one that has undergone many amendments, the Indian Act is uniquely positioned to act as a vehicle for this kind of focused reading.

Through an analysis of thirty-five sources pertaining to the Indian Act—addressing governance, gender, enfranchisement, and land—the authors provide readers with a much better understanding of this pivotal piece of legislation, as well as insight into the dynamics involved in its creation and maintenance.


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Memory policy and settler colonialism: Sarah Maddison, ‘The Limits of the Administration of Memory in Settler Colonial Societies: the Australian Case’, Memory International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2018

21Nov18

Abstract: Settler colonial societies provide particular challenges for the instantiation of memory policy since the settler-colonial project was driven by a logic requiring the ‘elimination’ of Indigenous peoples and their time. This very fact challenges the legitimacy of the colonial mission for a better way of life and feeds the tensions at the very core of memory policies in these societies in coming to terms with the past. Focusing on contemporary Australia, this article first examines the challenges inherent to memory policy in settler colonial societies before reviewing three attempts at administering memory for future coexistence. This approach highlights the way public policies of memory can result in formal procedures rather than in historical narratives. This recognition of the ongoing contested nature of the settler colonial project leads to the suggestion for a different, more agonistic orientation to memory policy that is predicated on the persistence of this conflictual dynamic rather than on its resolution.


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