Abstract: This article argues that the phrase “monopoly of violence,” which circulates in so many contemporary academic critiques of the liberal state, is not adequate to describe the nature of violence deployed by settler colonial societies against indigenous and racialized bodies. Settler colonialism depends on a mode of popular sovereignty that serves primarily as a […]

Call for Chapters – Settler Colonialism and the Urban Prairie West Editors: David Hugill (Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, University of Winnipeg), Tyler McCreary (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia The rapid urbanization of North American Indigenous populations over the last half century has been accompanied by a proliferation of urban Indigenous organizing […]

Excerpt: ‘We had seized the land so violently and dispossessed its inhabitants so shamelessly – that our only way back – back to being at one and at peace with ourselves, was to identify more with Aboriginal Australia, while atoning for our opportunist and brutal behaviour‘.