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A chapter also on what is to be done: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Facing the Settler Colonial Present’, in Sarah Maddison, Tom Clark, Ravi de Costa (eds), The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation: Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage, Springer, 2016

29Nov16

Abstract: This chapter focuses on a specific mode of domination and its contemporary manifestations. It outlines what is here defined as the global settler colonial present: a predicament fundamentally characterised by a logic of elimination and containment rather than exploitation. This appraisal of a developing dispensation is offered as a reminder of the need to develop indigenous-nonindigenous alliances.


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Introducing a special issue on what is to be done: Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, ‘What Justice Wants’, Critical Ethnic Studies, 2, 2, 2016, pp. 1-15

29Nov16

Abstract: In this introduction, coeditors Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang discuss critically productive tensions that serve as the foundation for this issue’s theme of “what justice wants.” Tuck and Yang consider how justice operates as a catalytic concept in conversations like critical ethnic studies and among activists and organizers. The article addresses the limits and possibilities for justice, as a redress discourse, as a form of action, and through the State. Highlighting the varying and sometimes contradictory meanings of justice, the authors then consider the “elsewheres” beyond justice. This introduction also provides short descriptions of the articles that make up this issue and approach their own perspectives on what justice wants.


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The actual politics of refusal require engagement: Patricia Burke Wood, David A. Rossiter, ‘The politics of refusal: Aboriginal sovereignty and the Northern Gateway pipeline’, The Canadian Geographer, 2016

27Nov16

Abstract: This study examines the politics of Aboriginal title in British Columbia in the context of the approval process for the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. We highlight presentations made by First Nations representatives and individuals during the Community Hearings for Oral Evidence stage of the Joint Review Panel, as well as the political actions of First Nations governments, organizations, and individuals outside the hearings. Speakers from several different nations articulated common points with regard to territory, property, and place in support of a case for sovereignty. Building from Aboriginal political theory, we argue that the evidence supports a reading of Aboriginal positions on the pipeline as a politics of refusal, the starting point of which lies within Aboriginal knowledge and governance systems, and not mere reaction to the development proposal. We hope to see more critical geographies of natural resource development incorporate Aboriginal theory into their frameworks.


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New China: Gregory Rohlf, Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Agricultural Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016

27Nov16

Description: Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Amdo and Qinghai in the 1950s examines rural resettlement to the Sino-Tibetan cultural borderlands in the 1950s. More than 100,000 eastern Han and Hui Chinese were sent to Qinghai province—known in Mongolian as Kokonor and Amdo to Tibetans—to plow up new fields in areas that were being incorporated into the Chinese state for the first time. The settlers were to bring their skilled labor, literacy, and modern thinking to “backward” Qinghai to fully exploit its natural resources of oil, natural gas, gold, and empty lands for the benefit of the industrializing nation. The book is a social and political history of resettlement, focusing on the people who were moved and the overall impact the program had on the province. It is a frontier history, but it also narrates a story of state building in modern China that spans the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.


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Indigenous sovereignty includes data sovereignty: Tahu Kukutai, John Taylor (eds), Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward and Agenda, ANU Press, 2016

25Nov16

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On reconciliation and its limits: Sarah Maddison, Tom Clark, Ravi de Costa (eds), The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage, Springer, 2016

25Nov16

Access this book here.


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Against inter-settler collaboration, indigenous internationalism! Ben Norton, ‘Palestinians support indigenous Dakota pipeline protests: “We stand with Standing Rock”’, Salon, 19/11/16

20Nov16

Excerpt: Native Americans have for months led protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile construction project that will transfer oil across several states. Thousands of activists from around the country have traveled to North Dakota to support the indigenous resistance at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Now, Native groups in the U.S. have support from the other side of the ocean, too.

Palestinian artists in Gaza released a video and letter this week expressing solidarity with the NoDAPL demonstrations.


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Reproduction is a political issue under settler colonialism: Erika Dyck, Maureen Lux, ‘Population Control in the “Global North”? Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics’, The Canadian Historical Review, 97, 4, 2016

19Nov16

Abstract: An historical analysis of reproductive politics in the Canadian North during the 1970s necessitates a careful reading of the local circumstances regarding feminism, sovereignty, language, colonialism, and access to health services, which differed regionally and culturally. These features were conditioned, however, by international discussions on family planning that fixated on the twinned concepts of unchecked population growth and poverty. Language from these debates crept into discussions about reproduction and birth control in northern Canada, producing the state’s logic that, despite low population density, the endemic poverty in the North necessitated aggressive family planning measures.


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Representing indigenous peoples while being subaltern settler: James Boucher, Representations of the Amerindian in French Literature and the Post-Imperialist Literature of Quebec, PhD Dissertation, University of Iowa, 2016

19Nov16

Abstract: My research traces the evolution of the French vision of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by establishing a genealogy of mythic paradigms which frame how French and Quebecois authors understand the Amerindian from 1534 to present. Myth informs French visions of the Amerindian from the earliest periods of contact until the present day. My research reveals the existence of a mythic representational genealogy in the history of French (and Quebecois) letters. Through the written word, reiterations of mythologies of the Native lead to the creation of a crystallized French cultural imaginary of the Amerindian which circumscribes possibilities for reciprocal understandings between French (European) and Native peoples. The Noble and Ignoble Savage, the Ecological Savage (which I also refer to as the nexus of Nature and Native), the Vanishing Indian, and Going Native are the mythologies and narrative technologies that have mediated (and continue to mediate) French thinking about the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Not only have these mythic paradigms determined literary representation, but they have also inordinately influenced the articulation of scientific truth about the Amerindian and the concretization of Native ontological difference from a Eurocentric perspective. The inextricable link between representation and praxis, confirmed by my insights into the mythic origins of scientific discourses (Buffon, Durkheim, Lévi-Strauss), cannot be underemphasized.


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On comparative indigenous suicide: Purpose of review: Preventing suicide in indigenous communities. Simon Hatcher, Allison Crawford, Nicole Coupe, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2016

19Nov16

Abstract:

Purpose of review: To provide an update on recent studies on suicide prevention in indigenous populations with a focus on recently colonised indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Recent findings: There have been several recent reviews on suicide prevention in indigenous populations with high suicide rates. However most of them describe the problem and there is little new that is available on effective interventions. One randomized controlled trial of a package of measures focusing on cultural identity in Maori who had recently self-harmed compared to usual care found little effect on suicidal behavior but it did significantly reduce presentations to hospital for any reason after one year.

Summary: The reasons for the limited evidence include a lack of ring fenced funding and a lack of research infrastructure; the problem of high rates of suicide but small numbers; and the difficulty in creating effective collaborations between researchers and communities. Potential solutions include identifying specific research funding; improving capacity in indigenous research; putting effort into accurate identification and recording of ethnicity; and thinking about the problem of suicide in recently colonised populations as a global problem to enable large scale high quality studies to take place.


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