[Iswg3906.organizers] Fwd: CFP - Settler-Colonial Spaces: Thinking Across Indigeneity and International Relations

[Jessica Foran]

FYI

And sorry for sending this around so late. I've talked with panel
organizers and there is some room for negotiation with the deadline if
anyone happens to be interested.

jessica

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From: <merson at yorku.ca>
Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Subject: CFP - Settler-Colonial Spaces: Thinking Across Indigeneity and
International Relations
To: foran.jessica at gmail.com


INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION - TORONTO (2014)


Settler-Colonial Spaces: Thinking Across Indigeneity and International
Relations


As the ISA moves from Ohlone territories (San Francisco) to Mississauga and
Haudenosaunee territories (Toronto) for its annual convention next year,
this
is a call to reflect on the international underpinnings of settler-colonial
spaces. The ISA Toronto 2014 Call for Papers emphasizes the role of
geopolitics
in International Relations. The aim of this CFP is to facilitate the
organization of panels that examine intersections between Indigeneity,
settler-colonial spaces, and International Relations theory, including the
gendered, racialized, classed, aesthetic, cosmological, and political
economic
dimensions of this under-theorized aspect of IR.

Since the early 2000s, numerous interventions in IR have done much to
deconstruct the Eurocentric foundations of the discipline by inflecting it
with
anti-colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives (Agathangelou and
Ling
2009; Barkawy and Laffey 2006; Blaney and Inayatullah 2004; Chowdhry and
Nair
2002; Dotty 1996; Grovogui 2009; Henderson 2007; Jones 2006; Krishna 2001;
Ling
2002; Sajed 2012; Shilliam 2011; Vitalis 2010). Nevertheless, a virtual
silence
persists regarding the 'international relations' underpinning the contested
nation-spaces of settler colonialism and Indigenous self-determination.
While
other disciplines have increasingly welcomed settler-colonial studies as a
growing field of academic inquiry, IR theory has once again been late to the
table in incorporating such an important research program into its
disciplinary
frameworks. This elision is particularly troubling considering that the
dominant
institutional geography of IR often overlaps with and occupies lands
claimed by
Indigenous peoples. IR's silence on this front enables the world's remaining
settler colonies to perpetuate laws and everyday practices that seek the
erasure of Indigenous peoples from the realm of the 'international',
reinforcing their tenuous claims to territorial integrity and sovereignty in
the process.

The 2008 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a
crucial document that clearly 'internationalizes' the rights of Indigenous
peoples by recognizing:  inherent rights of self-determination; sovereignty
in
governance of lands, resources, and social reproduction; and
Indigenous-settler
treaty relationships. Historical studies have also demonstrated the extent
to
which encounters between European colonial powers and Indigenous peoples
were
generative of key categories of international law. From its emergence to the
present day, settler-colonialism manages its inter-national relations with
Indigenous peoples by attempting to contain settler-indigenous relationships
within the framework of domestic politics. This colonial maneuver continues
to
generate multiple sites of contestation in world politics, as most recently
seen with the #IdleNoMore movement.

Interested presenters are asked to submit 300 word abstracts - along with
their
names, institutional affiliations and contact information - to Konstantin
Kilibarda (kole at yorku.ca) and Emily Merson (merson at yorku.ca) by May 1, 2013.
Please also state if you are interested in acting as a Chair and/or
Discussant
on one of the panels in this series. Individual papers will be grouped into
distinct panels based on mutual interest and lines of inquiry, though full
panel proposals are also welcome.



Emily Merson
PhD Candidate, Graduate Program in Political Science
Researcher, York Centre for International and Security Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M3J 1P3
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