settler colonial studies blog

On reconciliation: Jennifer Matsunaga, David Long, Anthony Gracey, Lee Maracle, ‘CRS Symposium on Reconciling Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada: Whose Voice Counts?’, Canadian Review of Sociology, 53, 4, 2016, pp. 457–460

30Nov16

Access the introduction and the special issue here.

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Reparations for settler colonialism: Susan Slyomovics, ‘Reparations and the Nakba’, The Nakba Files, 22/11/16

29Nov16

Excerpt: Since 1948, there have been numerous maximalist and minimalist proposals to resolve the fates of Palestinian refugees by those outside the homeland and those internally displaced within Israel. For the State of Israel and many Jewish Israelis, the ideal solution encompasses a hoped-for absorption (i.e. disappearance) of Palestinians into host countries elsewhere. For Palestinians, the rights of return and reparations (including restitution and compensation for lost properties and human suffering) are non-negotiable.

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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

Access the book here.

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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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On reconciliation: Jennifer Matsunaga, David Long, Anthony Gracey, Lee Maracle, ‘CRS Symposium on Reconciling Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada: Whose Voice Counts?’, Canadian Review of Sociology, 53, 4, 2016, pp. 457–460

Reparations for settler colonialism: Susan Slyomovics, ‘Reparations and the Nakba’, The Nakba Files, 22/11/16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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