We look forward to seeing everyone at WPSA, MPSA and APSA this year! In between, we would like to meet the group’s needs to be in community with one another more often, share our research successes and challenges, and keep updated on new work in Indigenous Politics. To that end, we will host several online sessions this year in April, May, July, October and November.
Whether you have a full manuscript, a work in progress, or even a research challenge you want to discuss — we would love to have you join us! Please fill out this form and let us know what you would be willing to present to the broader group. Preferred deadline of 3/7 but will keep it open for the later workshops.
Please save the date for our first talk in the series:
Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
12PM – 1PM Central Time via Zoom
Morgan Mowatt, Matthew Wildcat, and Gina Starblanket will join us to discuss their 2024 article of the same name in the Annual Review of Political Science.
ABSTRACT
Scholarship from the nascent subfield of Indigenous politics illuminates an enduring tension between Indigenous politics and political science. Settler colonialism continues to configure the contemporary politics of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia in profound ways that political science has been slow to grapple with. In a related concern, political science has little ability to engage in Indigenous knowledge production. This article reviews the structural exclusion of Indigenous knowledge despite increased inclusion of Indigenous scholarship and argues that Indigenous understandings of settler colonialism, sovereignty, and authority hold the potential to reconfigure political science’s approach to Indigenous politics in research and teaching. This reconfiguration will not only impact the development of the Indigenous politics subfield but also expand the analytic potential of political science more broadly.
