Abstract: Anthropocene debate centers on the start-date and the cause of the geologic Epoch. One argument for the Epoch’s start-date is the “Early Anthropocene,” contending humanity “took control” of Earth systems during the Neolithic Revolution. Adherents contend agriculture contributed to rising carbon emissions and laid the groundwork for societal ills such as colonialism and extractive […]

Abstract: In recent years, political theorists have begun to explore the sacrificial dimensions of liberalism and neoliberalism in the global North. Little of this work, however, grapples with the ways settler colonialism informs contemporary political sacrifice or conceptions of the sacrificial. This paper traces a genealogy of contemporary political sacrifice through the archive of early […]

Abstract: Ethnic Studies epistemologies have been central to the historicization and theorization of the US-Mexico border as an ordering regime that carries out structures of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and white supremacy. While scholars of Jewish history have explored the connections between colonial borders, transnational economic structures, and Jewish merchants, little is known about the […]

Abstract: A commitment to decolonization within analytical practice moves beyond merely marking violence from colonial legacies and histories; it requires actively working to dismantle settler colonial structures that dispossess and disappear Indigenous peoples and knowledges in the here and now, while reasserting Indigenous rights to land, self-determination, and sovereignty.

Abstract: In the Sicangu Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse’s piece The Thanksgiving Play, a white theatre educator, Logan, receives diversity grants to tell the true story of Thanksgiving in an elementary school production. Through the devising process, Logan seeks recognition of her “wokeness” in an effort to absolve white liberalism’s original sin of land theft and attempted […]

Excerpt: In settler colonised countries, medical education is situated in colonist informed health systems. This form of colonisation was characterised by overt racism and the gaining of territory through the domination and elimination of the Indigenous (Indigenous meaning here Indigenous people globally) population. The remaining populations were subjected to a process of elimination via aggressive […]

Abstract: In this article, I problematize sexual violence as a gendered and raced tool of colonial dominance. Though the theoretical framework of settler colonialism, I demonstrate how colonialism in the United States influences current discourse and policy around sexual violence. First, I explore the ways that colonialism positions women as victims and chattel of men. […]

Abstract: In this article, based on a keynote address delivered in 2019 at the conference on “Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies for World Christianity” held at Princeton Theological Seminary, I discuss studying up and how scholars of World Christianity need to grapple with the ways Christianity has facilitated the work of and supported state policies […]

Abstract: This essay examines the significance of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory of ‘systematic colonisation’ within the transition from Caribbean slavery to settler colonisation to reveal the sequential relationship of these two imperial systems. In the context of industrialisation and social unrest, the anti-slavery movement performed an important purpose for Britain’s ruling classes by simultaneously accruing […]

Abstract: This thesis is an inexhaustive study of the creation of an economy of knowledge surrounding Hawaiʻi. Through settler imaginings a new psychic place coalesced around the fantasies of colonists. This place Hawaii is distinguishable from Hawaiʻi by the absence of the okina. The analysis begins at the end of the Nineteenth Century when settlers […]