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
