Introduction to Solidarities of Nonalignment: Abolition, Decolonization, and Anticapitalism

Toward an Understanding of International Students within Canadian Settler-colonial Capitalism (Research Note)

“…This is not a conflation between the goals and struggles of various groups, as these are differences that must be honoured. Quoting Viola et al (2019) who paraphrase Marxist thinker Samir Amin, it is through a "critical specificity" that we can accomplish a type of engagement with one another that balances between acknowledging commonalities and "refus[ing] to circumvent historical differences and alternative visions for the future, overlook[ing] the important tensions that are evident within and across disparate freedom struggles, or gloss[ing] over the barbaric logics of global capitalism as a major impediment in realizing the multiple horizons of justice" (p. 8).…”

“…As well, addressing racialized migrant labour exploitation and its colonial historicity, and grounding solutions in citizenship and labour rights, may cultivate international student agency and long-term security in Canada; but these approaches do not address the goal of honouring Indigenous claims to their lands. If a common ground is both possible and just, it seems to me that it can be found through engagement between differently marginalized groups, or nonaligned solidarities (Viola et. al, 2019).…”

I Fanhigaiyan: weaving an alternative journalism praxis from CHamoru decolonization media activism

“…However, it is through the communicative dimensions of settler colonialism that the logic of territoriality is both concealed and reproduced by news media, while obscuring the poverty created by the destruction of life-giving resources by the settler state (Dalisay & Yamamoto, 2012;Viola et al, 2019). Callison and Young (2020) assert that modern journalism is in crisis due to a series of ruptures including representational issues, dissonance for journalists, and alienation for various publics.…”

“…In a similar way, CHamoru media activism reveals the complex relationship between mainstream media and settler militarization. It is also generative in ensuring CHamoru sovereign futurity, and the ways in which CHamoru media activists engage with digital media are exemplary of Indigenous push back against the settler state fortified by digital technologies (Viola et al, 2019;Whaanga & Mato, 2021).…”

“…However, it is through the communicative dimensions of settler colonialism that the logic of territoriality is both concealed and reproduced by news media, while obscuring the poverty created by the destruction of life-giving resources by the settler state (Dalisay & Yamamoto, 2012; Viola et al, 2019).…”