Abstract: My research examines the media portrayals of Indigenous healing lodges within Canada, through a critical discourse analysis of relevant Canadian news media sources, spanning from 2009 to 2019. I utilize both intersectionality and settler colonialism as my theoretical approaches for this research to contextualize media discourses to the longstanding history of colonialism in Canadian […]

Abstract: Across the globe, settler nation-states are being forced to contend with the large-scale ecological and social disruptions caused by settler colonialism. Wildfires are a charismatic example of this: when anthropogenic climate change combines with colonial forest management practices, wildfires act in ever changing ways with often violent and uneven impacts to human and nonhuman […]

Abstract: My purpose is to consider the role that uncertainty might play in reimagining political responsibility in Australia. There is a growing body of scholarship that is re-examining what it might mean to be settler colonial and politically responsible. It urges settlers to not only comprehend their complicity in structures of violence and oppression – […]

Description: The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics, as developed in South America and South Africa, work counter to retributive justice. The Theatre of Regret asks whether – within the contexts of settler colonialism – the approach to reconciliation […]

Description: Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation […]

Abstract: This first half of the paper outlines the formation of racial surveillance capitalism across the longue durée of settler colonialism, with special attention to the formation of artificial vision. This artificial vision is deployed in the erased territory, creating a white space in which to see from platforms, ranging from the ship, to the […]

Excerpt: ‘One of the more intriguing elements of the research, to me at least,was the imperial frame within which many Australians located themselvesin the first half of the twentieth century. In some ways this research projectbegan with my puzzling over a proposal, made in the late 1920s by theAdelaide-based Aborigines’ Protection League, for a model […]

Abstract: Few American law classes actually teach the Insular Cases. This Essay argues that this is due to a profound lacuna in mainstream constitutional study—the failure to adequately confront the extent to which the United States from its founding has been a project of empire. In part, for this reason, the field tends to have little […]

Excerpt: Following the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the eponymous first-person narrator in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) is processed in a refugee camp on the US unincorporated territory of Guam before resettling in Southern California. There, he is invited by a famous Hollywood director, modeled after Francis Ford Coppola but identified only as “the Auteur” […]

Abstract: This paper investigates the similarities between the British experiences with settlers in other instances of colonisation, and mandatory Palestine. It addresses the extent to which British officials were aware of, and understood the aims, intentions, and methods of the Zionist movement, as well as the consequences for the indigenous population. Utilising primarily British documents […]