Native Feminist Theory in WGSS

• Focus on decolonization as a primary concern and objective

Recap

• Hegemony works by reshaping and containing oppositional forces
  • The work of subordination
    • How an oppositional movement becomes partially absorbed within a dominant structure
      • Minority cultures added to the curriculum as an add-on, taught as electives

Arvin, Tuck, and Morrill

• Arvin wrote a cool book at the intersection of science studies and other stuff
• Tuck lives in Canada, co-wrote essay Decolonization is not a metaphor
  • Known for research on how indigenous social thought...
• Morrill is interested in how how native feminist theorists go about doing their studies

What is settler colonialism?

• A persistent social and political formation in which newcomers/colonizers/settlers come to a place, claim it as their own, and do whatever it takes to disappear the Indigenous peoples that are there
  • Focus on the LAND
  • Settlement and replacement
  • Persistent STRUCTURE
    • Very important to understand that it is not just an event of the past
• Can take different forms across time
• Industrious settler, the erased/invisibilized Native, ownable and murderable slave
• Should be understood as a gendered process

Settler colonialism as a structure

• How the deportation regime of ICE positions itself as a symbolic father that "protects" the motherland
• Heteropaternalism = exhibited by ICE

Settler colonialism as a process

• Politically speaking
• Ideologically