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n-o-f-u-t-u-r-i-t-y:

“…for me, [colonization] has not ended and will not end until the culture of colonization has been dismantled. And that means not just a government process of treaty settlements, but a whole constitutional reorganization which acknowledges that Maori are the first people of this land, not just as some quaint metaphorical description, but are the first people in terms of authority, of law, of jurisdiction … And so part of ending the culture of colonization here is to have a proper and effective recognition of Maori jurisdiction and Maori law which then leads to a Maori-defined notion of Maori rights”

- Moana Jackson

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flanneryogonner:

Hi y'all! 

I’ve compiled a list of readings that speak to issues of nationalism, indigeneity, colonialism, and resistance/decolonization

The list is of course limited to what readings I’ve encountered at some point. They also come from a variety of academic disciplines and political movements (settler colonial studies, native studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, trans studies).

And, with a few exceptions, these files were legally uploaded and shared… a lot of the time by the authors themselves, which I feel the need to point out because I love when authors can/do share their work online for free. (I say this not because I’m worried about the sanctity of ‘intellectual property’ but because I’m worried about things being deleted.)

Also re-linking to this list of pdf readings, “Natives Read Too,” from The Yáadihla Girls!

 human rights/war/nationalism/sovereignty 

• “What Do Human Rights Do?” by Talal Asad
  
  
• “On Torture: Abu Ghraib by Jasbir Puar
  
  
• ”From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human
  Rights“ by Susan Koshy
  
  
• ”Necropolitics“ by Achile Mbembe
  
  
• ”Algeria Unveiled“ by Frantz Fanon
  
  
• A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
  
  
• History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postmodernism by Patrick Wolfe
  
  
• Who Sings the Nation-State? Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak
  
  
• ”Where Lawlessness is the Law: The Settler Colonial Frontier as a Legal Space of Violence“ by Julie Evans
  
  
• ”1492: a New World View“ by Sylvia Wynter
  
  
• Frames of War by Judith Butler
  
  
• ”Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics“ by Patrick Wolfe
  
  
• Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin 

transnational/native/postcolonial feminisms & feminist critiques: 

• Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism - Trinh T. Minh-Ha
  
  
• ”Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory“ -Hazel V. Carby 
  
  
• ”Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: An Interview with Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan“
  
  
• ”Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses“ by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  
  
• ”Feminist Problematizations of Rights Language“ by Jasbir Puar and Isabelle Barker
  
  
• Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  
  
• ”The Subject of Freedom“ by Saba Mahmood
  
  
• The Spivak Reader
  
  
• Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
  
  
• ”Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India“ by Partha Chatterjee
  
  
• ”Can the Subaltern Speak?“ Gayatri Spivak
  
  
• The Politics of the Veil - Joan W. Scott
  
  
• ”Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy“ by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill
  
  
• ”Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change“ by Andrea Smith 

decolonization, art, and resistance (not necessarily feminist):  

• Edward Said and Critical Decolonization 
  
  
• Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said 
  
  
• ”Decolonization is not a Metaphor“ by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
  
  
• ”Decolonizing Antiracism“ by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua
  
  
• Bury My Art at Wounded Knee / R.I.S.E  
  
  
• The Boarding School Healing Project 
  
  
• Center for Third World Organizing 
  
  
• Queers Against Israeli Apartheid 

queer theory/sexuality studies/native studies/trans studies 

• Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock
  
  
• ”Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities“ by Jasbir Puar*
  
  
• Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
  
  
• ”Un-settling Settler Desires“ by Scott Morgensen
  Also the Unsettling America wordpress.
  
  
• Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things - Ann Laura Stoler
  
  
• ”Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept“ by Evan B. Towle and Lynn Morgan
  
  
• ”Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran.“ by Afsaneh Najmabadi
  
  
• ”Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada and Israel: Articulating Two-Spirit and Palestinian Queer Critiques“ by Scott Lauria Morgensen
  
  
• ”Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism“ by Andrea Smith 
  
  

*Actually just going to link to this page of Dr. Puar’s work because it’s  great and relevant (and she also has a lot of work on Israel/Palestine).


critiques of humanitarianism/developmentalism: 

• ”Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflecting on Canadian Humanitarian Responses“ by Sherene H. Razack
  
  
• “The Rationality of Empowerment: Microcredit, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Gendered Economy” by Christine Keating, Claire Rasmussen, and Pooja Rish
  
  
• “Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism” by Talal Asad
  
  
• “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina
  
  
• “Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns” by Elizabeth Bernstein
  
  
• “Coca-Cola, Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia” Lesley Gill 
  
  

[Really wish I knew more about this kind of work.] 

Biopolitics, science, environmental justice 

• “Peversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity” -Nayan Shah 
  
  
• “Your DNA Is Our History:‘ Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” by Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear
  
  
• “Displaying Sara Baartman” by Sadiah Qureshi

• “The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now” by Scott Morgensen 
  
  
• “Black Bodies, White Science” -Brian Wallis 
  
  
• The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics by Vandana Shiva
  
  
• “The Seed and the Earth” by Vandana Shiva
  
  
• “Earth Democracy: An Interview with Vandana Shiva”
  
  
• “Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial” by Suman Seth

and…. U.S. politics  

• “Workfare–Warfare: Neoliberalism, ‘Active’ Welfare and the New American Way of War” by Julie MacLeavy and Columba Peoples
  
  
• “Women and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Colonial Mythology” by Suzanne Bost
  
  
• “The People of California are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” by Lisa Marie Cacho
  
  
• “American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State” by Andrea Smith 

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toopunktofuck:

emma sulkowicz carried her mattress during graduation today, even after her rapist attempted a smear campaign in fucking reason magazine, even after she lost tons of supporters because they believed her rapist and denied that a victim could process events or cope like she did.

I’m proud of her.

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