Theorizing Settler Colonialism: Alternative Indigenous Methodologies

All research is guided by a set of philosophical underpinnings. Indigenous methodologies are in line with an Indigenous paradigm, while critical and liberatory methodologies fit with the transformative paradigm. Yet Indigenous and transformative methodologies share an emancipatory and critical stance and thus are increasingly used in tandem by both Western and Indigenous scholars in an attempt to decolonize methodologies, research, and the academy as a whole. However, these multiparadigmatic spaces only superficially support decolonization which, in the Canadian context of settler colonialism, is a radical and unsettling prospect that is about land, resources, and sovereignty. Applying this definition of decolonization to the decolonization of research paradigms, this article suggests that such paradigms must be developed, from scratch, conjointly between Indigenous and Western researchers.

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Theorizing Settler Colonialism: Alternative Indigenous Methodologies

Feminist Studies ◽

10.1353/fem.2019.0013 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 455-466

Author(s):

Jennifer McLerran

Keyword(s):

Settler Colonialism ◽

Indigenous Methodologies

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Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature

10.1017/9781108695824 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Philip Steer

Keyword(s):

Victorian Literature ◽

Settler Colonialism

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Review: Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas by Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2016.85.2.313 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 313-315

Author(s):

Nicolas G. Rosenthal

Keyword(s):

Settler Colonialism

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Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

The Public Historian ◽

10.1525/tph.2019.41.4.7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 7-35

Author(s):

Andrea Lynn Smith

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Revolutionary War ◽

The State ◽

The Public ◽

150Th Anniversary ◽

End Point ◽

Indian Land ◽

Indian Relations ◽

Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

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Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.166 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jeff Chang ◽

Daniel Martinez HoSang ◽

Soya Jung ◽

Chandan Reddy ◽

Alex Tom

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Police Officers ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

The State ◽

Racial Capitalism

We chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu [the Korean term for the April 1992 uprising in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating]. We want to look at the conditions surrounding these flashpoints and the responses to them that then shaped race consciousness and politics subsequently. Today we have no shortage of crisis, no shortage of flashpoints. And yet there is hope. Perhaps more than at any other time in my lifetime, there are opportunities to shift mass culture, at the very least to popularize and normalize a slightly more critical consciousness. So now I want to turn to my friends here to talk about crisis and multiracial politics. We’ll start with Sa-I-Gu and work forward to this moment and also to future possibilities.

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