Abstract: This essay examines the intersections of Native and Immigrant narratives formed by liberal multiculturalism in Helen Lee’s film Prey (1995). By examining the intersections and proximity of the historic subjectivity of the lead characters in a settler nation-state, I provide a spatial critique of Canada’s colonial and multicultural policies that sustain settler heteropatriarchy. The […]

Abstract: This essay analyzes multiple, diverse performances of indigeneity, by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people globally, in order to understand how various forms of playing “Indian” persist today and how Indigenous peoples must innovate ways to counter settler appropriations of Indigenous identities. It argues that extending the privilege of “acting like a white person acting […]

Abstract: The historical role of European farming in southern and central Africa has received a great deal of attention among scholars over the years. A striking consensus emerges in the scholarly literature, namely that the success or failure of European farming in southern Africa was to a large extent dependent upon the colonizers’ access to […]