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Excerpt: Yellowwashing is but one of the more recent washings of the state of Israel in a spectrum of hues—red, black, brown, green, pink and rainbow—deployed to represent it as a nation fully engaging liberal discourses of diversity in alliance with indigenous, minority, and environmentalist groups, including American Indians, Blacks, Latinxs, Arabs, women and LGBTQI […]

Description: Most people assume that climate change is recent news. A Temperate Empire shows that we have been debating the science and politics of climate change for a long time, since before the age of industrialization. Focusing on attempts to transform New England and Nova Scotia’s environment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book […]

Abstract: The city of Ottawa is on unceded Algonquin territory and, as the centre of formal political power in what is now known as Canada, has represented an important site for local, regional, national and international Indigenous networks organizing to resist settler state agendas of dispossession and assimilation. Yet the city-region is rarely acknowledged as […]

Abstract: This review article focuses on scholarship that lies at the intersection of histories of climate and British settler colonization in Australia and New Zealand. It first discusses the role of climate in their colonial histories and then developments in the field of climate history, examining similarities and differences within and between Australia and New […]

Abstract: In this article I suggest that a reading of previous studies, which cast the early transfers of eucalyptus to South Africa along economic and aesthetic rationales can be enhanced by medical history. Through a case from King William’s Town in the 1870s, I show that the appeal of the eucalyptus hinged on the olfactory […]

Abstract: This essay reviews three recently published books that chart the complexities of what it means to be indigenous today, focusing on the experiences of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand. Exploring the everyday lives of urban-based Māori (Gagné), the development of an indigenous mediascape (Hokowhitu and Devadas), and the challenges associated with the regeneration of […]

Description: With increasing speed, the emerging discipline of critical Indigenous studies is expanding and demarcating its territory from Indigenous studies through the work of a new generation of Indigenous scholars. “Critical Indigenous Studies” makes an important contribution to this expansion, disrupting the certainty of disciplinary knowledge produced in the twentieth century, when studying Indigenous peoples […]

Abstract: British colonization of Aotearoa New Zealand diminished the influence of the tribal territory on Indigenous autonomy, identity and belonging. Yet land is still key to securing Indigenous futures. This paper explores the reassertion of Indigenous autonomy over the environment. A governmentality critique is used to explore efforts to embed indigeneity into environmental politics. As […]

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