Regenerative Refusal was proposed by Maile Arvin, an Indigenous Studies Scholar, pulling on the idea of incommensurability and proposing an ethic of incommensurability. Regenerative refusal is a strategy employed by Kanaka Maoli and other Indigenous people that poses, instead of focusing on a return to the past, and instead of centering Indigenous movements on state-sanctioned forms of recognition, focusing on the impacts of settler colonialism within Indigenous communities.