dc.contributor.author | Spitzer, Aaron | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-30T12:25:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-30T12:25:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04-02 | |
dc.Published | Spitzer A. 'A wolf in sheep’s clothing': settler voting rights and the elimination of the Indigenous demos in US Pacific territories. Postcolonial Studies. 2019;22(2):131-149. | eng |
dc.identifier.issn | 1466-1888 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-8790 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/21631 | |
dc.description.abstract | Settler colonialism eliminates Indigenous sovereignty, enthrones itself, and thereby makes Indigenous land ‘ours’. It may do this meta-politically, by absorbing ‘them’ into ‘us’. This article explores three recent lawsuits brought by settlers against Indigenous demoi in US Pacific territories. I show that in each lawsuit, settlers brandished a novel ‘tool of elimination’: individual voting rights. I trace how settlers wielded this tool to deliver a ‘one-two punch’, first condemning as ‘illiberal’ restrictive voting laws flowing from Indigenous sovereignty and then championing race-neutral laws that would in effect enthrone settlers. I show that courts hearing these cases were faced with choosing the appropriate ‘framing of justice’ – with whether the relevant rights-bearer was the universal individual voter or the ‘constitutionally prior’ Indigenous demos. Finally, I show that, because the courts ultimately framed these disputes as individual-rights cases, settlers extended control of meta-politics on the US Pacific frontier. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | eng |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | eng |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | eng |
dc.subject | Settler colonialism | eng |
dc.subject | Indigenous sovereignty | eng |
dc.subject | Voting | eng |
dc.subject | US Pacific territories | eng |
dc.subject | Liberal theory | eng |
dc.subject | Constitutional law | eng |
dc.title | 'A wolf in sheep’s clothing': settler voting rights and the elimination of the Indigenous demos in US Pacific territories | eng |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2019-12-18T08:00:53Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2019 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1591569 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1708066 | |
dc.source.journal | Postcolonial Studies | |