David Stirrup

Description

The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies brings together scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences with individual interests in the Americas, Oceania, Western Asia, Southern Africa, and northern Europe, and with a collective interest in the global frameworks of Critical Indigenous Studies (CIS). Now housed at the University of York, the Centre operates as a collective project (via co-directorships) between the Universities of York, Alberta, Kent, and London College of Communication and in collaboration with colleagues globally. While the Centre places Indigenous Studies and Settler Colonial Studies in critical dialogue in bringing together scholars engaged in each, and through conversations around mutual practical and discursive attempts to analyse and disrupt the colonial structures of settler states, it understands these fields to be discrete, and emerging out of different systems of knowledge production. Insofar as CIS demands relationship with communities alongside the centring of Indigenous voices and anti/decolonial activism, and insofar as Settler Colonial Studies seeks to unsettle the structures of colonial dominance and examine settler-Indigenous interrelations, the Centre embraces the challenge (to non-Indigenous scholars in particular) to develop ethical forms of scholarship and engagement.