Abstract: In surveys conducted between 2016 and 2018, First Nations found that only 36% of Americans “almost certainly” believe that the “United States is guilty of committing genocide against Native Americans.” In the United States, Indigenous genocide is largely denied, erased, set in the past, or framed as inevitable. This chapter builds upon Indigenous research […]

Excerpt: Northern Alberta is infamous for its oil sands extraction, a process that is accompanied by large-scale deforestation, habitat destruction, toxic wastewater productionand greenhouse gas emissions.

Abstract: Utilizing Fanon’s theories of psychic, social and embodied processes of racialization and racism, this article examines Toronto’s gay village as a site of queer settler multiculturalism and its impacts on Black and Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Two-Spirit and additional (LGBTQ2+) youth experiencing homelessness. I build on Fanon’s arguments of cultural alienation, the […]

Abstract: This paper argues that state-sponsored memorialisation is a critical enterprise in creating and maintaining a national cultural identity that softens or erases the ongoing process of death-making and dispossession wrought by settlers on the land and Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the work of Toronto-based Cree scholar Karyn Recollet, I further argue that this death-making […]

Abstract: This paper investigates urban life through the contested formation of settler colonial infrastructure. Trespassing nationalist narratives, it ‘follows the infrastructure’ across imperial space, time and struggle, illuminating the extraordinary power of cities both in and as infrastructural systems. It tracks a set of circulations through cities across Canada and beyond, to explore how the making of […]

Abstract: The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and cultural barriers—administrative and often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects borderline area inhabitants turning them into hostages of border management regimes and outside projections concerning their cultural and civilizational status, and the authenticity of forms of their culture representation. In the […]

Excerpt: The subsequent years have seen the proliferation of space colonization advocacy programs that promise to create an intricate mix of extraterrestrial settlements and space tourism, as well as asteroid mining, thereby allowing for capitalist extension while also conveniently offering a solution for Doomsday crises such as climate change or asteroid strikes. In other words, […]

Abstract: This article draws on a body of Aboriginal and Native American cosmo-epistemologies that are predicated on deep modes of relationality with more-than-human lifeworlds to question Euro-anthropocentric understandings of the concept of “borders.” Situated within this context, I interrogate Western conceptualisations of the border along two seemingly opposed axes: the production of violent border complexes […]

Abstract: This article examines the history of the International Institute of Los Angeles, one of dozens of immigrant-serving agencies to open nationwide under the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) during the 1910s. Close reading of this branch reveals how related processes of domestication, democratization, and assimilation of immigrant groups buttressed the settler colonial making of […]

Abstract: The evolving practice and scholarship surrounding food movements aim to address social, political, economic and ecological crises in food systems. However, limited interrogation of settler colonialism remains a crucial gap. Settler colonialism is the ongoing process that works to systematically erase and replace Indigenous Peoples with settler populations and identities. While many progressive and […]