Papers by Jaskiran Dhillon
Anthropological Theory, 2023
This article reflects upon Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking ... more This article reflects upon Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by tracing its contributions as a pedagogic text. In particular, I explore how the book (1) offers crucial insights about the founding of the modern political state and its relationship to settler colonialism, (2) reveals the importance of rethinking how we conceptualize political violence, and (3) traces some of the implications for political organizing that are rendered through a historical retelling of the story of political violence and state making. Ultimately, I argue that Neither Settler nor Native holds important lessons about how we struggle, what it is that we are struggling for, and how we might craft our collective commitments to a better and more just world in a way that more robustly accounts for the political histories from which we have emerged.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2020
Critical Ethnic Studies, 2020
Globalizations , 2021
This article examines the critical interplay among Indigenous resurgence, settler colonialism, an... more This article examines the critical interplay among Indigenous resurgence, settler colonialism, and the politics of environmental justice. Critical questions need to be asked: How are Indigenous political demands for decolonization taken up within the broader scope of impending planetary dystopia? How might 'environmental justice' work to (re)inscribe hegemonies of settler colonial power by foregrounding settler interests? This article takes up these questions vis à vis Standing Rock, paying particular attention to the way that the politics around water become reconfigured through notions of kinship, justice, Indigenous temporalities, and multiple frontlines. I argue that an anti-colonial indictment of environmental justice compels us to (re)imagine decolonial research/ praxis around environmental politics.
Post for #ItEndsHere Series of Indigenous Nationhood Movement in response to violence against Ind... more Post for #ItEndsHere Series of Indigenous Nationhood Movement in response to violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.
In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized ... more In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized by local law enforcement agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These normalized outbreaks of state control, often punctuated by the use of deadly force, are not isolated incidents in an otherwise just and fair social order. Rather, they are reflective of Indigenous girls' daily realities embedded within the structure of an ongoing settler colonial social context that has strategically invented the criminal justice system to secure and maintain settler sovereignty. As such, this paper aims to redirect our critical analysis of the policing and caging of Indigenous girls through the geopolitics of settler colonialism. In the wake of mass protests against colonial state violence throughout 2014, resistance decrying the justice system and insisting that #BlackLivesMatters and that Indigenous lives matter, I argue that we have an urgent need to listen to the stories that Indigenous girls have to tell. These are not just any stories, but narratives that profoundly destabilize the hubristic portrayal of Canada as a humanitarian nation cleansed of settler colonial rule.
Based on an exploratory study of the intersection among social exclusion, gender, and access to e... more Based on an exploratory study of the intersection among social exclusion, gender, and access to education, this article documents interpretive insights into the social and cultural dimensions of schooling through the narrative accounts of young women and
girls living in poverty and experiencing homelessness in Canada. Having recognized the challenges of the public education system to meet the varying needs of a diverse student body, the declarations of these girls shed much-needed analytic light on the
multiple factors mediating the issue of access, social and economic constraints, and alienation from teaching and learning environments faced by homeless young women
and girls in the educational arena. Consequently, they shift our attention away from notions of individualized failure in school to a structural and gendered critique of “access” in education, and bring into relief important questions about justice and social equality in Canada.
Podcast: Cultures of Energy by Jaskiran Dhillon
we welcome to the podcast Jaskiran Dhillon and Nick Estes. Jaskiran is a first generation academi... more we welcome to the podcast Jaskiran Dhillon and Nick Estes. Jaskiran is a first generation academic and advocate who grew up on Treaty Six Cree/Métis Territory in Saskatchewan. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School and author of the forthcoming Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (U Toronto, 2017). Nick Estes is Kul Wicasa from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico, an Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, and a co-founder of activist organization The Red Nation. A winner of a Native American Journalist Association award for his writing, Nick’s research focuses on the history and politics of the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation), border town violence, colonialism and decolonization, and Indigenous internationalism and human rights. Together we discuss what led to opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, the legacies of settler colonialism and empire in the region, and the impact Indigenous youth are having on the climate justice movement. Jaskiran and Nick explain to us why what is happening at Standing Rock is truly unprecedented and why it might give us hope despite how deeply pipeline politics remain invested in traditions of settler violence. Finally, we discuss what they think will happen next and how people wishing to support the resistance can help; for those with the resources to help, donations to the legal defense fund and to support the community can be made at standingrock.org.
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Papers by Jaskiran Dhillon
girls living in poverty and experiencing homelessness in Canada. Having recognized the challenges of the public education system to meet the varying needs of a diverse student body, the declarations of these girls shed much-needed analytic light on the
multiple factors mediating the issue of access, social and economic constraints, and alienation from teaching and learning environments faced by homeless young women
and girls in the educational arena. Consequently, they shift our attention away from notions of individualized failure in school to a structural and gendered critique of “access” in education, and bring into relief important questions about justice and social equality in Canada.
Podcast: Cultures of Energy by Jaskiran Dhillon
girls living in poverty and experiencing homelessness in Canada. Having recognized the challenges of the public education system to meet the varying needs of a diverse student body, the declarations of these girls shed much-needed analytic light on the
multiple factors mediating the issue of access, social and economic constraints, and alienation from teaching and learning environments faced by homeless young women
and girls in the educational arena. Consequently, they shift our attention away from notions of individualized failure in school to a structural and gendered critique of “access” in education, and bring into relief important questions about justice and social equality in Canada.