-US tests weapons on indigenous peoples in the Americans; military and nuclear testing also takes place almost exclusively on Native lands.
Brings up a form of coloniality that we have to think through again, as traditional models of colony:metropole (most often in regards to colonization from Western Europe) and settler colonialism, to have a more complicated understanding of how coloniality functions to economically support the nation-state within the contemporary moment. In the case of U.S. settler colonialism for Native lands, Smith argues here that consolidating "empire within borders" supports military expansion internationally, so that the struggle for Native sovreignty intersects with multiple internationalist ("nation-state") issues, but also complicates the idea of what liberation can look like.
Brings up a form of coloniality that we have to think through again, as traditional models of colony:metropole (most often in regards to colonization from Western Europe) and settler colonialism, to have a more complicated understanding of how coloniality functions to economically support the nation-state within the contemporary moment. In the case of U.S. settler colonialism for Native lands, Smith argues here that consolidating "empire within borders" supports military expansion internationally, so that the struggle for Native sovreignty intersects with multiple internationalist ("nation-state") issues, but also complicates the idea of what liberation can look like.
And how does this connect with your site? Do you think that these techniques of rule are different in Kashmir? Are there overlaps?
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