https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6 en-us 2022-01-30 21:34:03 UTC 2022-02-02 23:51:41 UTC hello@padlet.com nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025854118 In thinking about Wolfe’s logic of elimination as a defining feature of settler colonialism, what is the difference between thinking about settler colonialism in the context of elimination and exploitation (as Wolfe and Veracini do) as opposed to accumulation by dispossession (as David Harvey and Englert do)?]]> 2022-02-02 17:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025854118 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025855693 Kelley and Englert emphasize the importance of decentering the settler colonial subject (as a critique of Wolfe). What epistemologies are missing from Wolfe’s work, and why is it important to bring place-specific contexts into our analyses of settler-colonialism and resistance? ]]> 2022-02-02 17:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025855693 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025856101 According to Wolfe, “Indians and Black people in the US have been racialized in opposing ways that reflect their antithetical roles in the formation of US society. (p. 387), In what ways do the various examples of settler colonialism given by Wolfe connect to racialization? ]]> 2022-02-02 17:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025856101 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025857091 Whyte argues that the disentanglement of food and human institutions is a strategy complicit in Indigenous erasure and proposes a “model of justice and sovereignty that…can be used to justify expressions of food sovereignty beyond those associated with, for example, federally recognized tribal governments or treaty organizations.” (p. 364) What does Whyte mean by this? How might this be imagined and acted upon today? 

]]> 2022-02-02 17:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025857091 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025857473 Whyte chooses food as a lens to analyze the collective capacities of the Nisqually, Nuu-cha-nulth, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Karuk. Within the paper, they discuss both food sovereignty and food justice. How do you understand the difference between these two concepts and what work does this distinction do?]]> 2022-02-02 17:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025857473 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025858054 Wolfe plainly writes, “once evacuated, the Red man’s land would be mixed with Black labour to produce cotton, the white gold of the Deep South.” (p. 392). Are land and labor inextricably linked in the processes of settler colonialism? How would each author differ in their perspectives? And, moving away from the settler colonial view, how is land linked to labor from an Indigenous worldview?]]> 2022-02-02 17:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025858054 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025858918 Wolfe describes, on pp. 395-396, the centrality of agriculture to settler colonial ideologies both as a site of ceaseless expansion and primitive accumulation, disrupting Indigenous modes of production, while erasing Indigenous agriculture and land relations. As Englert and Kelley write, the processes/tactics of settler colonialism are ongoing and ever-changing. Is agriculture still the primary site of settler colonial violence today? How are settler colonial ideologies manifesting and cementing themselves in other industries and places (physical and metaphysical). E.g. waterways, technology, universities, etc.]]> 2022-02-02 17:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025858918 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025859364 Englert discusses the racial organization of labor (“whether settler, enslaved, or indigenous” p.1655) as essential to settler colonialism. “This-perhaps obvious- characteristic leads to the development of internal class relations and conflicts, alongside confrontations between settlers and indigenous peoples” (p.1658). How does this impact our abilities to collectively organize? What is at stake for all of these groups? ]]> 2022-02-02 17:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025859364 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860124 Whyte discusses the irony of settler colonialism which is, that settlers came in order to further their own collective continuance. What conditions, both material and conceptual, situate groups' respective collective continuance in competition with one another? ]]> 2022-02-02 17:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860124 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860538 In the examination of potlatch systems, Whyte (and Trosper) describe that one consequence of potlatch is that “cooperation not individual hoarding” is reiterated as “the correct strategy.” Are there ways to scale up this idea to create conditions that move groups toward compatible or cooperative collective continuance?]]> 2022-02-02 17:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860538 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860950 Food sovereignty, for Whyte, is understood as constitutive of collective continuance because of the ways in which food systems are intertwined with human institutions that build strong relationships, both with nature and between people. Thinking about Whyte’s last paragraph (p 364), what might it look like to “go beyond” the expressions of food sovereignty written about here?]]> 2022-02-02 17:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025860950 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025864594 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC3XeIFJDnc 
From 19:36- 20:26 is the clip we picked to share in class, but the whole series is worth watching ]]> 2022-02-02 17:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025864594 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025865654 https://cagj.org/salmonpeople/]]> 2022-02-02 17:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025865654 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025867247 https://cagj.org/2019/04/report-back-on-film-screening-and-panel-event-salmon-people-northwest-native-opposition-to-genetically-engineered-fish/]]> 2022-02-02 17:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025867247 nvwynn https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025869600 TBA]]> 2022-02-02 17:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2025869600 cleasbye https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026459675 controlling land as controlling the labour force: thinking about South Africa case study 

Where is settler colonialism happening: agriculture, extractive industries, the commons (especially water ways), 2nd homes/tourism
Not that agriculture isn't a site of settler colonialism but in late stage capitalism, there are multiple sites. The idea of being a primary site doesn't seem to apply now. 

pollution/poisoning the waterways as part of ongoing settler colonialism 
Took the land. Now degrading the land so it becomes unusable. The commons as a site of continuation of that violence. 

Not just negative industries. Green technologies or social goods can also operate in settler logics. Who are the 'we' these things are aiming to help. ]]> 2022-02-02 23:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026459675 cfresh https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026461373 diff b/t food sov and justice. significance of sovereignty for Whyte and language? ]]> 2022-02-02 23:38:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026461373 ypahmed https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026471630 Notes: Informal settlements in cape town. Rhetoric in that work - relationship of the land and the people is enshrined in the constitution. Land plays a particular part in politics. Relationships of people to land prior to colonization? There's not this explicitly stated connection between Indigeneity and colonialism in South Africa. 

There can be a romanticization of place - ("place attachment"), narrates connection to place in a fixed way. After the trail of tears how did the Cherokee remake their sense of place in their homeland? 

Wolfe - right to domination via "discovery" - what lands/areas did Europeans think this right extended to? ]]> 2022-02-02 23:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ypahmed/okfu71eywaqqtmv6/wish/2026471630