Excerpt: It’s also symptomatic of a broader phenomenon throughout the region, where foreigners – often cryptocurrency enthusiasts, libertarians or both – have flocked in recent years, supporting controversial projects – such as the proposed “Bitcoin City” in El Salvador – threatening to displace local residents and drawing comparisons to colonialists. […] When the new Honduran government repealed a pair […]

Abstract: This chapter is meant to transcend settler space to unveil what we call the Postdigital Settler Spectacle, a mesmerizing and manipulative façade used by settler capitalist society through mass media and digital technologies, which systemically hides the truths of social inequity in our daily lives. We aim to contribute to the discourse of the […]

Abstract: The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s primary “call to action” is to reduce the number of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in this country. Yet, Indigenous children continue to be apprehended into the child welfare system at rates three times higher than at the peak of the Indian Residential School period (1831-1996). Though there […]

Abstract: This thesis is an exploration of colonial dispossession within cities and specifically urban parksrecognizing all parks in so-called Canada exist on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples. Within this thesis I utilize mixed methods, first conceptual analysis is used to discuss the structural-materialist emergence of urban parks as colonial spaces. Secondly, drawing from my […]

Abstract: From the early twentieth century to the present day, health professionals have commented on the exceptional nature of Inuit cancer patterns. Over the past hundred years, Inuit have been thought to possess a unique distribution of disease—characterized, at different points, by higherthan average rates of lung, cervical and salivary gland cancer, lower than average […]

Abstract: In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a dispossessive strategy, a racialized and gendered means of controlling access to resources and attempting to contain Indigenous human, nonhuman, and land-based relations. This regulation is informed by Western patriarchal ideals and mechanisms. We examine settler accounts of “Indian” […]

Abstract: Airlines play an important role in border policing and deportation, not only in terms of aviation infrastructure but also as potent, affective national symbols that shape the contours of belonging. In the context of Australia, deportation functions as an assertive act of settler state sovereignty within broader carceral circulations of the Pacific archipelago.

Abstract: Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons (2015) broadens the scope of what might be considered a politicized ecopoetics. Battler’s collection, which I suggest works through a poetics of appropriation, links experimental poetic form with Anthropocene criticism in the humanities and critical studies of settler colonialism, addressing the contiguities between ecological degradation and land expropriation, while also […]

Abstract: What does it mean for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) building to be designed through modernist architecture principles on land acquired through settler colonialism? In 1947, construction began on the United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ) in Manhattan, a name derived from Manna-hata, a site within Lenapehoking, the homeland of Indigenous Lenape peoples violently displaced […]

Abstract: Kenneth Cook is perhaps a lesser-known name in Australian literature. While Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film adaptation of Cook’s debut novel Wake in Fright (1961), picturing the descent of a Sydney teacher into madness in a remote outback town, has achieved cult status among cineastes, the book itself has received relatively little attention. Apart from […]