Abstract: This article examines the connection between Indigenous women’s bodies, their relationship to land and resistance to resource extraction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. First, I explore the processes and practices through which natural resource extraction is expanded into the Global South to demonstrate that Indigenous lands are produced as wastelands that only acquire […]

Abstract: This article explores the resurgence of Indigenous/Palestine solidarity during the Wet’suwet’en land sovereignty struggle in Canada that took place around the same time Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” was released in early 2020. Historicizing this resurgence within a longer period of anti-colonial resistance, the article attends to the distinct historical, political-economic, and juridical […]

Abstract: This chapter brings the field of critical religion and Naomi Goldenberg’s vestigial state theory into conversation with critiques of settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy. The central question investigates how discourses on religion, race and gender that enable the liberal democratic nation-state to appear progressive can also function to occlude ongoing settler colonialism. To address this […]

Abstract: Canada has a foundational myth of a peaceful frontier, settled according to the rule of law. In this view Native people were protected by the Crown and the legal system and were peacefully incorporated into a now-thriving, multicultural society. This is in contrast to the many violent Indian wars of the neighbouring United States. […]

Abstract: This article examines Indigenous video games that critique mainstream environmental politics at the level of mechanics. An analysis of video games’ influences on ecological values requires looking beyond the representational to the mechanical relationships between player and software. As a cultural–computational medium, video games are embedded with ethics of interaction that inflect this representational […]

Abstract: Italian mobility played a fundamental part in the history of the peninsula, since it was a global phenomenon reaching every continent except Antarctica. The Italian diaspora counted over 26 million expatriates who left the country between 1876 and 1976 and, to date, Italy remains one of the states that has contributed the most to […]

Abstract: Canadian Studies scholars have tended to explain former Conservative Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s nationalist vision as one focused on creating an image of Canada as a “Warrior Nation.” Studies of the commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812 from 2012–15 situate it within this attempt to erase liberal multicultural narratives in favour […]

Abstract: Israeli surveillance industries are well integrated in the global surveillance market. This incorporation is achieved through marketisation, labour processes and the circulation of capital. Even Israel has been considered by many as a successful securitising model. In this article, it is argued that this success is the outcome of several factors, including the shared […]

Abstract: Despite its military, diplomatic, and economic power, Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler colonialism, and apartheid still views the nonviolent, Palestinian-led global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “strategic threat” to its system of injustice, waging a protracted war against the movement accordingly. This essay aims to contextualize Israel’s war on BDS by […]

Description: Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and world politics, when determined or framed by nationalism fused with […]