Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies

The Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent brings together scholars 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). While we place CIS and Settler Colonial Studies (SCS) in critical dialogue, we understand these fields to be discrete, and emerging out of different systems of knowledge. Insofar as CIS demands relationship with communities alongside the centring of Indigenous voices and anti/decolonial activism, and insofar as SCS seeks to unsettle the structures of colonial dominance and examine settler-Indigenous interrelations, we embrace the challenge (to non-Indigenous scholars in particular) to develop ethical forms of scholarship and engagement.