Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions

Decolonisation is a Political Project: Overcoming Impasses between Indigenous Sovereignty and Abolition

“…2022; Day 2015; Day et al. 2019; Harris 2019; Kelley 2017). Kelley (2017:269) suggests theorisation of settler colonialism is limited by its omission of the African continent and widens the frame by considering the case of South Africa, among others, suggesting that settlers “wanted the land and the labour, but not the people —that is to say, they sought to eliminate stable communities and their cultures of resistance”.…”

“…Neither Kelley’s (2017) evocation of Africa, nor Day et al.’s (2019) interweaving of Asian Diaspora as a political position in relation to Indigenous people are accounted for in simplistic formulations in which settler‐enslaver categories overdetermine relations between Indigenous people and those who are invited or uninvited guests in their lands. If, as Kelley suggests, decolonisation is also a process and not an event, we need more complex and nuanced understandings.…”

“…people who are Black and Native), or erase the multitude of relations forged by and despite empire (e.g. Day 2016;Day et al 2019;Kelley 2017;Young 2016).…”

“…In conversations that seek to move across settler colonialism, racial capitalism, critical race theory, anticolonialism, and Asian diasporic thinking, we find promise in the ways that widening the frame beyond the Americas unmoors temporal and spatial settler-enslaver fictions (Byrd 2019;Ch airez-Garza et al 2022;Day 2015;Day et al 2019;Harris 2019;Kelley 2017). Kelley (2017:269) suggests theorisation of settler colonialism is limited by its omission of the African continent and widens the frame by considering the case of South Africa, among others, suggesting that settlers "wanted the land and the labour, but not the people-that is to say, they sought to eliminate stable communities and their cultures of resistance".…”

Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis

“…The resulting conversations emphasize structural dissonance as a key characteristic of Global Asias epistemology by embracing dissensus and creating space for agreement and contention to be equally valued forms of collective engagement. 9 The diverse ways in which work encompassed by this aspect of Global Asias becomes the unstable conditions for simultaneously theorizing 9 See the following two A&Q features-"Political Science and the Study of Global Asias" (Lee et al 2017) and "Contemporary History/Contended History" (Lanza et al 2019)-and three Field Trip features-"Indigeneity at Sea" (Herman et al 2018), "Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions" (Day et al 2019), and "Approaches between Asia and Latin America: A Critical Renga" (Bachner et al 2017)-as examples.…”