Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Grief: Theorising a Decolonising Tran…

Abstract This article argues that within the context of settler colonialism, the goal of transitional justice must be decolonisation. Settler colonialism operates according to a logic of elimination that aims to affect the disappearance of Indigenous populations in order to build new societies on expropriated land. This eliminatory logic renders the death of Indigenous peoples Bungrievable^. …