On the Politics of Indigeneity and Asian Settler Colonialism in Asia: A Roundtable Discussion

Cover image: Amerasia Journal Volume 51, Issue 1-2 – Assemblages of Asian Settler Colonial Critique

This roundtable discussion with Malaya Caligtan-Tran, Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Megumi Chibana, and Katherine Achacoso is part of the newest volume of Amerasia Journal, titled “Assemblages of Asian Settler Colonial Critique.”

Abstract:

This roundtable documents emerging conversations on Indigenous politics and settler colonialism in Asia. It brings together a diverse group of emerging diasporic/Indigenous scholars from the Cordilleras, Surigao, Okinawa, and the Champa Kingdom to examine contemporary issues in Indigenous politics in Asia and their implications for broader conversations on Asian/American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies. This roundtable asks: how might the place-based and regional specificity of Indigenous politics in Asia expand global conversations on Indigenous movements for self-determination and decolonization? How might settler colonialism in Asia inform more transnational and global theorizations of Asian settler colonialism?