Kevin Bruyneel
Biographic Data
| ID | 457605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Bruyneel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruyneel |
| SIGNATURE | BRUYNEEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3666-2423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Afterlives of Terra Nullius: Unmarked Graves, Indigenous ‘Discoveries’, and Colonial After-Thoughts
The 2021 discovery of the unmarked graves of Indigenous children by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia revealed the brutal genocide at the heart of Canadian colonial rule. Canadian governments and the Catholic Church had sought to leave this issue buried, literally and figuratively, by asserting a modern form of terra nullius in positing that these and other …
Value and the Political: A Messy Relationship
In the introduction to Claiming Value, Alena Wolflink states: "The concept of value is pervasive in our language.It is the sine qua non of economic and normative theory alike.The word is used to describe everything from individual convictions to the power of a currency" (2).This quote speaks to the task and ambition Wolflink sets before herself, to take on the study of a concept that, indeed, seems to be and is everywhere all around us, and yet, …
On Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions
Geo Maher’s Anticolonial Eruptions is a force to be reckoned with. As a reading experience, it’s a bloody delight, even as – and maybe because – Maher guides us down in to the depths of the volcanoes stoking the explosive fires of rebellion. We also get to follow the moles below and high above ground as they wait for their moment to emerge, shock, and rebel. These moles are blind in one sense, while in another sense they can tell time, or more ac…
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, however, especially in contemporary political and intellectual discourse about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racism in general. In this ambitious new book, Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and c…
No More Nations Within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871
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Reply to Michael Leroy Oberg
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Reply to Julie L. Reed
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When Is the Past Not the Past
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North Atlantic Perspectives: A Forum on Stuart Hall’s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part I
Stuart Hall, a founding scholar in the Birmingham School of cultural studies and eminent theorist of ethnicity, identity and difference in the African diaspora, as well as a leading analyst of the cultural politics of the Thatcher and post-Thatcher years, delivered the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University in 1994. In the lectures, published after a nearly quarter-century delay as The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017), Ha…
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and Political Theory
Creolizing Collective Memory: Refusing the Settler Memory of the Reconstruction Era
The collective memory of the Reconstruction era in US history is a good example of Jane Anna Gordon's notion of 'creolization' at work. I argue that this is an era that could do with even further creolizing by refusing the influence of settler memory. Settler memory refers to the capacity both to know and disavow the history and contemporary implications of genocidal violence toward Indigenous people and the accompanying land dispossession that s…
Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
Journal Article Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America Get access By Jennifer Guiliano. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xvi, 175 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw087 Published: 01 June 2016
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots:The Washington Football Team Case Kevin Bruyneel (bio) Introduction in july 2014 the Center for American Progress released a study titled Missing the Point: The Real Impact of Mascots and Team Names on American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. Written by Erik Stegman and Victoria Phillips, this study further substantiated that the use of Indian team names and mascots has a clea…
Codename Geronimo: Settler memory and the production of American statism
The article examines the use of the name ‘Geronimo’ as the codename that the US Defense Department gave to Osama Bin Laden in their successful mission to assassinate him. In engaging this critique of “Codename Geronimo,” the article offers a way to imagine decolonization and unsettlement through a wider critique of American statism, upon the premise that anti-statism is a necessary component of a decolonizing, unsettling politics. The article arg…
The American liberal colonial tradition
The American liberal myths of the self-made man, of the liberal individual, and of American exceptionalism all rely upon a disavowed relationship to the constitutive role of settler colonization in the foundation, development, and structure of the USA. I place political scientist Louis Hartz's 1955 work, The Liberal Tradition in America, at the center of this essay because his argument re-animates while posing as a critique of the narrative of Am…
Ps: Political Science and Politics Reviewers, 2011
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty
In this article, I argue that Louis Riel is a necessary invention for the production of Canadian sovereignty. The argument builds on the work of Giorgio Agamben. I see Riel as a Canadian version of homo sacer, “who may be killed but not sacrificed,” and thereby serves as the exception that proves the rule of Canadian sovereignty. I carry out this argument in three stages, focusing first on Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion. I the…
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis , Paul Pierson, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 196. Political scientists of the world unite against the decontextual revolution; you have nothing to lose but your n ! Okay, there is no such call to arms in Paul Pierson's important new work, but his book is a well-crafted shot across the bow of the dominant strains in political science. As Pierson sees it, too much …
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy. Edited by Andrew Valls. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 294p. $45.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. This is an important work, which I highly recommend. Andrew Valls has gathered an impressive collection of essays, primarily from philosophers, each of which examines the place of race in the work of a writer of the modern Western canon. The writers under examination here are Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibn…
The Colonizer Demands its “Fair Share,” and More: Contemporary American Anti-Tribalism from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Extreme Right
In no small part, Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the 2003 California recall can be credited to his campaign's ability to define him as an 'outsider' who would save the state from casino-owning indigenous tribes that were seemingly taking over the political system and refusing to pay their 'fair share.' This strategy invoked the American sentiment of colonialist anti-tribalism: the view that argues for holding back any expression of tribal sov…
Challenging American Boundaries: Indigenous People and the “Gift” of U.S. Citizenship
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act (ICA), which unilaterally made United States citizens of all indigenous people living in the United States. This new law made citizens of approximately 125,000 of the 300,000 indigenous people in the country (the remainder were already U.S. citizens). Usually, people who have been excluded from American political life see the codi- fication of their citizenship …
Challenging American Boundaries: Indigenous People and the “Gift” of U.S. Citizenship
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act (ICA), which unilaterally made United States citizens of all indigenous people living in the United States. This new law made citizens of approximately 125,000 of the 300,000 indigenous people in the country (the remainder were already U.S. citizens). Usually, people who have been excluded from American political life see the codi- fication of their citizenship …
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy. Edited by Andrew Valls. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 294p. $45.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. This is an important work, which I highly recommend. Andrew Valls has gathered an impressive collection of essays, primarily from philosophers, each of which examines the place of race in the work of a writer of the modern Western canon. The writers under examination here are Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibn…
Creolizing Collective Memory: Refusing the Settler Memory of the Reconstruction Era
The collective memory of the Reconstruction era in US history is a good example of Jane Anna Gordon's notion of 'creolization' at work. I argue that this is an era that could do with even further creolizing by refusing the influence of settler memory. Settler memory refers to the capacity both to know and disavow the history and contemporary implications of genocidal violence toward Indigenous people and the accompanying land dispossession that s…
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots:The Washington Football Team Case Kevin Bruyneel (bio) Introduction in july 2014 the Center for American Progress released a study titled Missing the Point: The Real Impact of Mascots and Team Names on American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. Written by Erik Stegman and Victoria Phillips, this study further substantiated that the use of Indian team names and mascots has a clea…
Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty
In this article, I argue that Louis Riel is a necessary invention for the production of Canadian sovereignty. The argument builds on the work of Giorgio Agamben. I see Riel as a Canadian version of homo sacer, “who may be killed but not sacrificed,” and thereby serves as the exception that proves the rule of Canadian sovereignty. I carry out this argument in three stages, focusing first on Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion. I the…
The Colonizer Demands its “Fair Share,” and More: Contemporary American Anti-Tribalism from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Extreme Right
In no small part, Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the 2003 California recall can be credited to his campaign's ability to define him as an 'outsider' who would save the state from casino-owning indigenous tribes that were seemingly taking over the political system and refusing to pay their 'fair share.' This strategy invoked the American sentiment of colonialist anti-tribalism: the view that argues for holding back any expression of tribal sov…
The Afterlives of Terra Nullius: Unmarked Graves, Indigenous ‘Discoveries’, and Colonial After-Thoughts
The 2021 discovery of the unmarked graves of Indigenous children by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia revealed the brutal genocide at the heart of Canadian colonial rule. Canadian governments and the Catholic Church had sought to leave this issue buried, literally and figuratively, by asserting a modern form of terra nullius in positing that these and other …
North Atlantic Perspectives: A Forum on Stuart Hall’s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part I
Stuart Hall, a founding scholar in the Birmingham School of cultural studies and eminent theorist of ethnicity, identity and difference in the African diaspora, as well as a leading analyst of the cultural politics of the Thatcher and post-Thatcher years, delivered the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University in 1994. In the lectures, published after a nearly quarter-century delay as The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017), Ha…
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and Political Theory
Ps: Political Science and Politics Reviewers, 2011
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
Challenging American Boundaries: Indigenous People and the “Gift” of U.S. Citizenship
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act (ICA), which unilaterally made United States citizens of all indigenous people living in the United States. This new law made citizens of approximately 125,000 of the 300,000 indigenous people in the country (the remainder were already U.S. citizens). Usually, people who have been excluded from American political life see the codi- fication of their citizenship …
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis , Paul Pierson, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004, pp. xii, 196. Political scientists of the world unite against the decontextual revolution; you have nothing to lose but your n ! Okay, there is no such call to arms in Paul Pierson's important new work, but his book is a well-crafted shot across the bow of the dominant strains in political science. As Pierson sees it, too much …
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy. Edited by Andrew Valls. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 294p. $45.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. This is an important work, which I highly recommend. Andrew Valls has gathered an impressive collection of essays, primarily from philosophers, each of which examines the place of race in the work of a writer of the modern Western canon. The writers under examination here are Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibn…
The Colonizer Demands its “Fair Share,” and More: Contemporary American Anti-Tribalism from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Extreme Right
In no small part, Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in the 2003 California recall can be credited to his campaign's ability to define him as an 'outsider' who would save the state from casino-owning indigenous tribes that were seemingly taking over the political system and refusing to pay their 'fair share.' This strategy invoked the American sentiment of colonialist anti-tribalism: the view that argues for holding back any expression of tribal sov…
Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty
In this article, I argue that Louis Riel is a necessary invention for the production of Canadian sovereignty. The argument builds on the work of Giorgio Agamben. I see Riel as a Canadian version of homo sacer, “who may be killed but not sacrificed,” and thereby serves as the exception that proves the rule of Canadian sovereignty. I carry out this argument in three stages, focusing first on Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion. I the…
Ps: Political Science and Politics Reviewers, 2011
In 2011, PS: Political Science and Politics published articles covering a vast range of topics. The journal's commitment to publishing articles on pedagogy and the profession, as well as exemplary topical scholarship on a spectrum of issues, call for an equally broad stable of reviewers. PS cannot publish such diverse work without the outstanding work (and openmindedness) of our peer reviewers. The peer-review process relies on the professionalis…
The American liberal colonial tradition
The American liberal myths of the self-made man, of the liberal individual, and of American exceptionalism all rely upon a disavowed relationship to the constitutive role of settler colonization in the foundation, development, and structure of the USA. I place political scientist Louis Hartz's 1955 work, The Liberal Tradition in America, at the center of this essay because his argument re-animates while posing as a critique of the narrative of Am…
Codename Geronimo: Settler memory and the production of American statism
The article examines the use of the name ‘Geronimo’ as the codename that the US Defense Department gave to Osama Bin Laden in their successful mission to assassinate him. In engaging this critique of “Codename Geronimo,” the article offers a way to imagine decolonization and unsettlement through a wider critique of American statism, upon the premise that anti-statism is a necessary component of a decolonizing, unsettling politics. The article arg…
Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America
Journal Article Indian Spectacle: College Mascots and the Anxiety of Modern America Get access By Jennifer Guiliano. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xvi, 175 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $27.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 215–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw087 Published: 01 June 2016
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case
Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots:The Washington Football Team Case Kevin Bruyneel (bio) Introduction in july 2014 the Center for American Progress released a study titled Missing the Point: The Real Impact of Mascots and Team Names on American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. Written by Erik Stegman and Victoria Phillips, this study further substantiated that the use of Indian team names and mascots has a clea…
Creolizing Collective Memory: Refusing the Settler Memory of the Reconstruction Era
The collective memory of the Reconstruction era in US history is a good example of Jane Anna Gordon's notion of 'creolization' at work. I argue that this is an era that could do with even further creolizing by refusing the influence of settler memory. Settler memory refers to the capacity both to know and disavow the history and contemporary implications of genocidal violence toward Indigenous people and the accompanying land dispossession that s…
North Atlantic Perspectives: A Forum on Stuart Hall’s The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, Part I
Stuart Hall, a founding scholar in the Birmingham School of cultural studies and eminent theorist of ethnicity, identity and difference in the African diaspora, as well as a leading analyst of the cultural politics of the Thatcher and post-Thatcher years, delivered the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University in 1994. In the lectures, published after a nearly quarter-century delay as The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017), Ha…
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and Political Theory
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States
Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, however, especially in contemporary political and intellectual discourse about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racism in general. In this ambitious new book, Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and c…
No More Nations Within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871
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Reply to Michael Leroy Oberg
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Reply to Julie L. Reed
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When Is the Past Not the Past
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On Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions
Geo Maher’s Anticolonial Eruptions is a force to be reckoned with. As a reading experience, it’s a bloody delight, even as – and maybe because – Maher guides us down in to the depths of the volcanoes stoking the explosive fires of rebellion. We also get to follow the moles below and high above ground as they wait for their moment to emerge, shock, and rebel. These moles are blind in one sense, while in another sense they can tell time, or more ac…
Value and the Political: A Messy Relationship
In the introduction to Claiming Value, Alena Wolflink states: "The concept of value is pervasive in our language.It is the sine qua non of economic and normative theory alike.The word is used to describe everything from individual convictions to the power of a currency" (2).This quote speaks to the task and ambition Wolflink sets before herself, to take on the study of a concept that, indeed, seems to be and is everywhere all around us, and yet, …
The Afterlives of Terra Nullius: Unmarked Graves, Indigenous ‘Discoveries’, and Colonial After-Thoughts
The 2021 discovery of the unmarked graves of Indigenous children by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia revealed the brutal genocide at the heart of Canadian colonial rule. Canadian governments and the Catholic Church had sought to leave this issue buried, literally and figuratively, by asserting a modern form of terra nullius in positing that these and other …
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