Settler Colonialism and the US Conservation Movement: Contesting Histories, Indigenizing Futures

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
David Craig Baumeister ◽  
Lauren Eichler
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
The Us

A great convergence: The American frontier and the origins of Japanese migration to Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sidney Xu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
The Us ◽  
Two Sides

Abstract This article explains how the US westward expansion influenced and stimulated Japanese migration to Brazil. Emerging in the nineteenth century as expanding powers in East Asia and Latin America, respectively, both Meiji Japan and post-independence Brazil looked to the US westward expansion as a central reference for their own processes of settler colonialism. The convergence of Japan and Brazil in their imitation of US settler colonialism eventually brought the two sides together at the turn of the twentieth century to negotiate for the start of Japanese migration to Brazil. This article challenges the current understanding of Japanese migration to Brazil, conventionally regarded as a topic of Latin American ethnic studies, by placing it in the context of settler colonialism in both Japanese and Brazilian histories. The study also explores the shared experiences of East Asia and Latin America as they felt the global impact of the American westward expansion.

scholarly journals “Walking into the World of the Western”: David Michôd’s „The Rover” as Australian Post-Western

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Land ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Western Film

This article argues that David Michôd’s The Rover is a“post-Western” film in the sense that it utilizes Western tropes to explore the consequences of settler-colonialism in aglobal context. Whilst “remembering” the US Western its use of its attributes helps analyze family, land-use, capitalism, masculinity and loss in atransnational, globalized world.„WCHODZĄC W ŚWIAT WESTERNU” — ROVER DAVIDA MICHÔDA JAKO AUSTRALIJSKI POSTWESTERNArtykuł przekonuje, że film Davida Michôda The Rover jest z gatunku postwesternu w tym sensie, iż wykorzystuje westernowe toposy w celu zbadania konsekwencji osadnictwa kolonialnego w kontekście ogólnoświatowym. Jeśli się pamięta amerykański western, zastosowanie jego cech pomaga w analizie rodziny, gospodarowania ziemią, kapitalizmu, męskości i utraty w ponadnarodowym, zglobalizowanym świecie.                                                                                              Przeł. Kordian Bobowski

A Cruel Innovation: Israeli Experiments on Gaza’s Great March of Return

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-198
Author(s):  
Tariq Dana
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The Us ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Relationship

This article sheds light on the relationship between Israeli high-tech innovation and military/security production in the framework of settler-colonialism and the prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories. It analyzes the global rise of Israel in military and security innovation as a result of decades-long colonial ventures and regional wars, which have been a key variable for dynamic and extensive innovation and productivity. Moreover, the article argues that Israeli military and security would not have been attainable without the extraordinary official assistance and private investment from the United States, especially since the aftermath of the 1967 war. Besides the structural dependency on the US, this article highlights other characteristics that define Israel’s military and security production, such as the vicious nature of these innovations, complicity in global atrocities, and profitability of innovation to Israel’s war economy. Finally, the article presents Gaza’s Great March of Return (gmr) as a case study to present evidence on the ways in which Israeli military forces and security companies are jointly involved in experimentation, using new weapons and unmanned devices on the Palestinian civilians.

A Legacy of Exclusion: The Geopolitics of Immigration and Latinas/os in the South

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalidy Matos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The South ◽  
Us South ◽  
Immigration Legislation ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Past

“A Legacy of Exclusion” briefly traces the historical migration of Latinas/os to the US South, countering the myth that the migration of Latinas/os to the region is new. Additionally, the piece argues that the exclusion Latinas/os face in the region is a continuation of racist policies and unequal power dynamics in the South that link Latina/o presence to a longer historical past and legacy. Through an examination of Alabama’s anti-immigration legislation, HB 56, I make two interrelated arguments. First, I argue that although there is nothing new about Latina/o migration to the region, what is new is the geopolitics of immigration — specifically, the proliferation of immigration enforcement within the interior of the United States. Second, these kinds of racist exclusionary projects have historical precedent. The contemporary regulation of nonwhite bodies is part of a much longer legacy of social control in the United States. Moving forward, I urge scholars of Latina/o studies and related fields whose focus is on the US South to engage with the history of settler colonialism, the displacement of native peoples, and the African American history of this region as a way to make important historical connections among and across racialized and otherized groups.

Evening in America

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-92
Author(s):  
Dan Sinykin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican War ◽  
Blood Meridian ◽  
The Us ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Economic Imperialism ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

James Baldwin’s observation that “American investments cannot be considered safe wherever the population cannot be considered tractable” could serve as a précis for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I show how McCarthy’s novel traces US scalp hunters in northern Mexico in the aftermath of the US-Mexican War as they clear the land of intractable Indians—i.e. slaughter them for cash—so the United States can pivot from settler colonialism to economic imperialism. The scalp hunters prove as bad for capital as the Indians they decimate, debauching cities, taking Mexican scalps that might pass as Indian, and destroying the means of production. Writing from late twentieth-century capitalist crisis, McCarthy depicts a constitutive violence that capitalism has unleashed, but cannot control. What remains, for McCarthy, beyond capitalism is the excess that fells it, a drive to violence.

Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Rail Network ◽  
The Us ◽  
Liberal Citizenship

Abstract Rooted partially in the US sentimental tradition, neo-slave narratives often feature lyrical language, emphasize the emotional experience of enslaved characters, and evoke the reader’s sympathy and empathy. Highlighting the use of sentimental conventions in neo-slave narratives including Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008), this essay explores the tension between sentimentality and the radical political goals of neo-slave narratives. This essay analyzes Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) as a neo-slave narrative that rejects rather than revises sentimental conventions. The novel’s central conceit, a literal subterranean rail network, illustrates how anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism interlock to materially and discursively enable the US nation-state and liberal citizenship; sentimental conventions facilitate processes of containment and capture that allow this infrastructure to function smoothly rather than disrupting it. In contrast, Underground foregrounds the prosaic over the lyrical, veils the interiority of its characters, and unsettles the reader’s desire to feel with or for the humanity of the enslaved. The novel models an alternative way of engaging slavery as an infrastructure, gesturing toward a mode of fugitive affiliation premised on acts of tangible care rather than affective identification or the possession of interiority.

Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 030639682199623
Author(s):  
Ahmad H. Sa’di
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The Us ◽  
Economic Formation

Israeli surveillance industries are well integrated in the global surveillance market. This incorporation is achieved through marketisation, labour processes and the circulation of capital. Even Israel has been considered by many as a successful securitising model. In this article, it is argued that this success is the outcome of several factors, including the shared premises of Israel’s settler-colonial regime and neoliberal data-based globalised capitalism, which has become a leading sector in the current economic formation. Furthermore, it reflects the advent of the securitising states and concurrently the rise of the security-industrial complex in the US and, to a lesser degree, in Europe. Yet, the acceptance of Israeli-settler colonial surveillance methods and Weltanschauung as a model points to the erosion of hitherto cherished values such as privacy, trust, autonomy, care and solidarity.

scholarly journals "You know, I used to be a Jew"

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Mark Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of

Beginning with the unlikely pairing of Max Reinhardt and Groucho Marx, this article unpacks an old, politically troubling Jewish joke as a way of tracing two trajectories that unfolded between Austria and the United States. The first follows the author's family, the second the interdisciplinary field of American studies. The joke's commentary on the dilemmas of assimilation, as played out in the family history, frames a more sustained examination of how national identity was understood by the American studies project consolidated in Salzburg and the US just after World War II. Focusing on how the new field's ways of engaging and occluding problems of race, subordination, exploitation, and land-theft shaped an interpretation of American democracy's history and prospects, the article puts these issues in the context of Donald Trump's election as president and the urgency of understanding not only the ruptures but also the historical continuities his presidency represents. Against the backdrop of those reflections, the article considers how contemporary American studies does and might engage the continuities. The field must help shape a national narrative both accessible in idiom and able to reckon with the ongoing history of white supremacy and settler colonialism. Doing that entails not only moving beyond but also borrowing anew from that early, Salzburg-style formation of American studies. It may also benefit from the Jewish joke: the conclusion and two postscripts read the joke's limitations in the light of recent social struggles yet also note its unnerving relevance to the Trump-era resurgence of antisemitism.

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