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Native Zionism? Jennifer Maidrand, Tala Raheb, ‘Seeking Canaan: Native Americans, colonialism, and the support for Christian Zionism’, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2022

01Nov22

Abstract: How is it that indigenous persons can voice support for Christian Zionism and opposition to Christian nationalism simultaneously? Why is there an incongruence between their rejection of Christian nationalism and their support for Christian Zionism? This paper explores this incongruence by shedding light on the entanglement of Christian Zionism and Christian nationalism, analysing notions of land, body, and self in relation to Christian Zionism and Christian nationalism, and by examining how such notions shape Native communities’ support for Christian Zionism. This paper argues that in the American context, Christian nationalism and Christian Zionism are inherently interconnected as colonial projects, and have influenced American self-understanding and occupied the imagination of Americans, thus resulting in the colonial self. In this context, settler colonialism is normalised and shapes Native communities’ understanding of their identity in relation to Israel and their response to Christian Zionism.


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More on the music of settler colonialism: Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Bryce Huebner, ‘Outlaw epistemologies: Resisting the viciousness of country music’s settler ignorance’, Philosophical Issues, 2022

31Oct22

Abstract: Settler colonial imaginaries are constructed through the repeated, intergenerational layering of settler ecologies onto Indigenous ecologies; they result in fortified ignorance of the land, Indigenous peoples, and the networks of relationality and responsibility that sustain co-flourishing. Kyle Whyte (2018) terms this fortification of settler ignorance vicious sedimentation. In this paper, we argue that Outlaw Country music plays important roles in sedimenting settler imaginaries. We begin by clarifying the epistemic dimensions of vicious sedimentation. We then explore specific cases where Outlaw Country songs function as epistemic scaffolding for maintaining and preserving deeply sedimented settler imaginaries. Finally, we conclude by considering ways of using country music as epistemic scaffolding for constructing resistant epistemologies, through the processes of trickster hermeneutics (Vizenor, 1999) and epistemic chronostratigraphy.


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Singing settler colonialism: Suzanne Basson, The Power of Song: The Role of Afrikaans Patriotic Songs in the Maintenance of Apartheid, MA dissertation, University of Oregon, 2022

31Oct22

Abstract: In this thesis, I examine how the patriotic songs found in the FAK songbook helped maintain the continued imposition of apartheid. During the start of the 20th century the FAK aimed to solve the ‘poor white problem’ by uplifting the Afrikaner people both economically and culturally. They first set out to unite the Afrikaners by creating a shared heritage, including folk songs. By expanding on Patricia Hill Collins’ theory of controlling images, I argue that the FAK created a controlling sound by associating musical genres with class. The patriotic songs affiliated with the uplifted Afrikaner, in turn, narrated the created heritage with lyrics that promoted settler colonialism. I claim these songs encouraged white ignorance—the disbelief or absence of true belief about systemic white supremacy—and, more importantly, that encouraging their performance is in itself white ignorance.


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Decolonisation will be televised: Susan Fountaine, Sandy Bulmer, Farah Palmer, Lisa Chase, ‘Decolonising public service television in Aotearoa New Zealand: telling better stories about Indigenous rurality’, Media, Culture & Society, 2022

31Oct22

Abstract: In settler-colonial countries like Aotearoa New Zealand, television programmes about rurality are fundamentally entwined with the nation’s colonial history, but how this context impacts on locally made, public service television content and production is seldom examined. Utilising data collected from interviews with programme makers and a novel bi-cultural friendship pair methodology, we examine how a high-rating mainstream programme, Country Calendar, conceptualises and delivers stories about Indigenous Māori and consider the extent to which these stories represent a decolonising of television narratives about rurality. The findings highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous voices and values, the impact of structural limitations and staffing constraints on public service television’s decolonising aspirations, and challenges reconciling settler-colonialism with the show’s well-established ‘rosy glow’. While rural media are often overlooked by communication scholars, our study demonstrates the contributions they might make to the larger task of decolonising storytelling about national identity.


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Settler denialism: Maha Nassar, ‘Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism’, Critical Sociology, 2022

31Oct22

Abstract: Nakba denialism – that is, denying Zionist culpability for the mass expulsions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – has long been a feature of US discourse on Palestine. Through a content analysis of Leon Uris’ 1958 novel, Exodus, I argue that Nakba denialism rests on three anti-Arab racist tropes. The first trope presents Palestinian Arabs as lacking religious attachment to Palestine, the second trope claims they lack modern feelings of national identity, and the third trope claims they are easily induced to commit acts of violence by their ruthless leaders. Through the deployment of these tropes, the Exodus narrative popularized key elements of Nakba denialism in US discourse by blaming the victims of settler colonial violence for the expulsions they faced. More broadly, this article shows how the imbrication of race and settler colonialism functions to epistemologically erase the very acts of settler colonial violence that produce racialized Others.


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Agency against the Agency: Valerie Lambert, Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, University of Minnesota Press, 2022

27Oct22

Description: What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them? This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves.


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Buried settler colonialism: Lindsay Martel Montgomery, ‘The Archaeology of Settler Colonialism in North America’, Annual Review of Anthropology, 51, 2022, pp. 475-491

27Oct22

Abstract: Beginning in earnest in the 1990s, archaeologists have used the material record as an alternative window into the experiences and practices of Black and Indigenous peoples in North America from the sixteenth century onward. This now robust body of scholarship on settler colonialism has been shaped by postcolonial theories of power and broad-based calls to diversify Western history. While archaeologists have long recognized the political, cultural, biological, and economic entanglements produced by settler colonialism, the lives of Indigenous peoples have largely been studied in isolation from peoples of African descent. In addition to reinforcing static ethnic divisions, until recently, most archaeological studies of settler colonialism have focused on early periods of interethnic interaction, ending abruptly in the nineteenth century. These intellectual silos gloss over the intimate relationships that formed between diverse communities and hinder a deeper understanding of settler colonialism’s continued impact on archaeological praxis.


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Horrific settler colonialism: Kali Simmons, ‘On Native Horror and the Terrors of Settler Colonialism‘, The Red Nation Podcast, 17/10/22

27Oct22

Abstract: Kali Simmons (@SimmonsKali) talks to The Red Nation Podcast co-hosts Jen Marley (@JenMarley1680) and Nick Estes (@nickwestes) on the cultural links between settler colonialism and horror fiction and film. The Red Nation Podcast features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective. Hosted by Nick Estes and Jen Marley with help from our friend and comrade Sina. Support the show: Patreon.com/redmediapr Website: therednation.org Follow the hosts on Twitter @nickwestes and @JenMarley1680 and the Red Nation @The_Red_Nation.Theme song: “Dead Horse” by Weedrat https://weedrat.bandcamp.com/

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Unsettler educators: Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education:  Cornel Pewewardy, Anna Lees, Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (eds), The Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model, Teachers College Press, 2022

27Oct22

Description: This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization. Drawing from decades of collaboration with teachers and school leaders serving Indigenous children and communities, this volume will help educators better support the development of their students’ critical thinking skills. Representing a holistic balance, the text is organized in four sections: Birth–Grade 12 and Community Education, Teacher Education, Higher Education, and Educational Leadership. Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education centers the needs of teachers, children, families, and communities that are currently engaged in public education and who deserve an improved experience today, while also committing to more positive Indigenous futurities.


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The home of settler colonialism: Libby Porter, David Kelly, ‘Dwelling justice: locating settler relations in research and activism on stolen land’, International Journal of Housing Policy, 2022

25Oct22

Abstract: There is a general consensus now in Australia that we are in the grip of a severe housing crisis. The characteristics of spiralling housing costs and deepening precarity are unfolding in a context of the systematic managed decline of public housing as a critical social infrastructure, such that the capacity to make and find ‘home’ is thinning every day. Yet in a settler-colony, such as Australia, the struggle against housing injustice is set inside an already violent relationship of un-homing that creates the very conditions for others to make home. Reckoning with this monstrous dilemma, of the politics of dwelling justice on stolen land, is the focus of this essay, which springs from our own experience and failure to fully comprehend the ways that our housing research and activism works to reinforce settler colonial logics of dwelling on stolen land.


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