Abstract: Conflicts over the ownership of territory have shaped intergroup relations between indigenous and nonindigenous groups in settler societies. Using latent profile analysis, we found four different subgroups of individuals among a sample of European New Zealanders based on their perceived ingroup (NZ European) and outgroup (Māori) ownership. Most people (75.9%) perceived shared territorial ownership, […]

Abstract: Combining insights from postcolonialism, ecofeminism, and critical animal studies, this article focuses on the colonial experience of nonhuman animals in North America whose exploitation has been integral to the colonial expansionist project. By tracing the history of displacement of Indigenous populations due to animal agriculture, animal colonialism is also linked to mass killing of […]

Abstract: This article reads one side of a transatlantic correspondence, that of Irish emigrant Jane White, who relocated to Canada in 1849, during a time of high migration from Ireland to Canada. The point of reading her one-sided correspondence is because it challenges scholars in both material and theoretical ways. Jane’s letters are a richly […]

Abstract: In 1997 John Wilson wrote that “while the hunger of Aboriginal Australians continues to be both a national and international scandal, hunger experienced by many other Australians is best described as hidden or silent hunger, not readily acknowledged publicly”. Sadly, this is still the case. Against the backdrop of high rates of local food […]

Excerpt: Such interventions variously ‘triangulate’ historical analysis in Australia, through a focus on historicising one of three configurations in particular, encounters and relationships between non-Anglo/ethnicised settlers and Indigenous peoples. Of the three dynamics of cultural relations and interactions in settler colonial societies – the other two being relationships between Anglo settlers and Indigenous peoples and […]

Excerpt: Secularism raises important identity issues in Quebec. As a francophone nation, Quebec defends its secularism as evidence of its distinctiveness from Anglo-Canada and an attachment to its French heritage. Quebec is the site of two distinct colonial regimes (French and British). The French conquest started in the 15th century in the name of its […]

Abstract: “Automating Discovery and the Engineering of Off-Earth Futures” examines NASA’s efforts to engineer what is described as “autonomous scientific discovery” in the Mars Exploration Program and its fleet of Mars Rovers through artificial intelligence and machine learning. At the intersections of Science and Technology Studies, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, and Critical Race and […]

Abstract: This essay focuses on Zionist medical perceptions concerning the climate in Palestine from the establishment of the Zionist Organization in 1897 to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. During this period Zionist medical approaches towards the climatic conditions in Palestine were not always consistent and they tended to reflect the general […]

Abstract: After decades of conflict, the US federal government forcedly removed all Chiricahua Apaches from their homelands in the Southwest in 1886 and took most of the youngsters and children from their parents to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. There these prisoners of war became students—prisoners of education—cut off from their own kin for […]

Excerpt: My aim in this article is simple: to draw the attention of the community of scholars interested in the history of enslavement to the lands along and east of the river Elbe in the central Middle Ages.