Abstract: As a practice, agroecology can trace its roots to Indigenous and peasant farmer knowledge developed over centuries, yet as a term, agroecology has existed for over ninety years. The term has become institutionalized through universities like the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Land Grant University where a number of staff and faculty from different disciplinary […]

Excerpt: McNally’s documentary practice is rooted in Indigenous philosophies that emphasize balanced and healthy relationships between humans and the more than human world. Read in and against the framework of settler colonialism—which attempts to reinscribe all social relations within capital’s grammars of possession, accumulation, and domination—McNally’s focus on Indigenous social relations offers both a critique […]

Abstract: Originally a living history museum celebrating Indiana’s homogeneous pioneer past, Conner Prairie began in the late 1990s to tell a more complicated story, one that included the expulsion of Native Americans and the enslavement of African Americans. With the new “Promised Land as Proving Ground” exhibit, scheduled to open in 2023, Conner Prairie will […]

Excerpt: Each of these recent books touches on international relations, empire, and race in the nineteenth century. Each contains a single chapter that focuses specifically on Dickens. Each might have been written slightly differently, perhaps, if the authors had all had the chance fully to digest one another’s work. As it is, they collectively provide […]

Abstract: While the Nordic countries are frequently renowned as some of the most peaceful societies in the world, such a conception of peace cannot fully encapsulate the experiences of the Sámi. Likewise, the global movement toward settler-Indigenous reconciliation since the 1960s has set the Nordic response apart from the rest of the world. Building upon […]

Excerpt: ‘Well, as you know, it has been a lifelong or career-long preoccupation of mine as a citizen of a Native nation located in what we currently call the United States to do academic and political work in what we now refer to as Latin America. I have long been frustrated by the lack of […]

Abstract: In 2019, the province of Manitoba started a process of reforming the education system, however it is important to question the role of white settler colonialism in this process. This critical discourse analysis examined how white settler colonialism is normalized and advanced through the discourses found in selected Manitoba education reform documents. Contrasting discourses […]

Abstract: This paper embarks on a comparative analysis of land alienation in three settler colonies namely Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa. This article is a five-part work. The first part of this work highlights the definitions and importance of land studies in Africa. Land as a factor of production is the mother of all crises […]

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Abstract: This article explores the postwar racialization of socionatural metabolisms as Michigan consolidated its capacities to regulate water pollution in the St. Clair–Detroit River corridor. These unceded waters flow through the traditional territories of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississauga, and Wyandot nations, as well as the heavily industrialized, urbanized, and racially segregated geographies of southeast […]