ABSTRACT
This chapter first engages with the fields of New Materialisms and Posthumanism, and concludes that their almost entire lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledges and scholarship whilst employing the nomenclature ‘new’, is merely another overexaggerated, erasing and violent example of Western claims to knowledge itself; another sadistic ‘discovery narrative’. In the latter half of the chapter I discuss Indigenous Materialisms more specifically, introducing a new framework for defining eras of colonialism, namely ‘Sovereignty Colonialism’, ‘Biopolitical’ or ‘Disciplinary Colonialism’, and ‘Security Colonialism’. In the final third, I focus on ‘Biopolitical’ or ‘Disciplinary Colonialism’ in particular, fleshing out notions such as Indigenous materiality preceding thought, the materialism of colonisation, and the agency of Indigenous bodies to resist.
