Here are some of the works we’re learning from in this project:

Arvin, M. R. (2019). Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler-Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania. Duke University Press.

Barakat, R. (2018). Writing/righting Palestine studies: Settler colonialism, indigenous sovereignty and resisting the ghost (s) of history. Settler colonial studies, 8(3), 349-363.

Borrows, L., & Eisen, J. (2025). Our more-than-human constitutions. Review of Constitutional Studies, 29(2), 173-208.

Chatterjee, S. (2019). Immigration, anti-racism, and Indigenous self-determination: Towards a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary settler colonial. Social Identities, 25(5), 644-661.

Desai, C. (2021). Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies 50(2), 43–66. 

Dhamoon, R. K. (2021). Relational othering: Critiquing dominance, critiquing the margins. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 9(5), 873-892.

Kamola, I., & Calkivik, A. (2024). The Archive as a Battlefield for the Future: Anti-colonial Struggles and Insurgent Temporality. South Atlantic Quarterly, 123(3), 549-568.

Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. (2016). A Structure, Not an Event’: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 5(1).

Keiser, L. R. (2010). Understanding Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decision Making: Determining Eligibility in the Social Security Disability Program. Public Administration Review, 70(20), 247-257.

Kenny, C., & Fraser, T. N. (Eds.). (2012). Living Indigenous leadership: Native narratives on building strong communities. UBC Press.

Lavalle, A., & Dick, V. (2025). Tâpwewin rising: a symposium of resistance, sovereignty, and brilliance. https://www.uvic.ca/health/socialwork/assets/docs/news/tapwewin_final_report_2025.pdf

Pratt, A. & Sossin, L. (2009). A Brief Introduction of the Puzzle of Discretion. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 24(3), 301-312.

Scott, D.N., & Stark, H.K. in partnership with the Yellowhead Institute. Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism Project: https://jurisdiction-infrastructure.com/.

Spencer, D. C., & Sinclair, R. (2017). Settler colonialism, biopolitics, and Indigenous children in Canada. The sociology of childhood and youth in Canada, 239-255.

Starblanket, G. (2019). The Numbered Treaties and the Politics of Incoherency. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 52(3), 443-459.

Taschereau Mamers, D. (2023). Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art. Fordham University Press.

Trochmann, M.B., Viswanath, S., Puello, S. & June Larson, S. (2022). Resistance of reinforcement? A critical discourse analysis of racism and anti-Blackness in public administration scholarship. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 44(2), 158-177.

Wildcat, M., & De Leon, J. (2020). Creative Sovereignty: The In-Between Space: Indigenous Sovereignties in Creative and Comparative Perspective. Borderlands Journal, 19(2), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2020-00

Watch this space develop into a living syllabus!