Abstract: Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North America has shown that historical Indigenous land-use and forest management has resulted in relict forest gardens dominated by edible fruit, nut, and berry producing trees and shrubs – many of […]

Abstract: Manitoba began the 1870s as an Indigenous province, entering Confederation in the aftermath of the well-studied period of the Red River Resistance of 1870. By the 1880s, Manitoba’s power structures and land were largely in settler hands, and the province was being promoted as a fertile land of opportunity for immigrants. This dissertation is […]

Excerpt: Remoteness is an at once apt and fuzzy term to apply to conceptualisations of Australia as an imagined space (rather than community). Remoteness holds a double meaning in an Australian context. As a general metaphor it indicates obscurity and indeterminacy, yet in Australia is also applied prescriptively and descriptively to thinly populated areas far […]

Excerpt: At the end of Annie Proulx’s Barkskins (2016), Sapatisia Outger, a Métis forest ecologist, witnesses glaciers disintegrate off the coast of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) with her fellow environmental activists. Seized by the unsettling episode in this moment, she apprehends the historical confluence of settler colonialism and climate change: ‘she suffered a full-force shock of recognition—the coming […]

Abstract: How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its […]

Abstract: More recently, the concept of settler colonialism has come to be used increasingly in analyses of the colonial relationships between the Swedish state, the Swedes, and the Sámi. The history of interaction is complex, as the territory has been shared for millennia. The concept of settler colonialism is nevertheless useful to apply to strategies […]

Abstract: Very few scholars noted the fact that Zionism was a Christian project before it became a Jewish one. This lecture will re-examine the making of a Jewish-Christian Zionist lobby that opened the way for the making of a British and a Jewish Palestine.

Description: Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it […]

Abstract: While opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline extends far beyond British Columbia’s southwest coast, Vancouver provides a specific site to explore the intersections of platform, place, and anti-pipeline sentiment in Instagrammed expression surrounding a controversy embedded in colonial extraction. A city located on Indigenous lands yet shaped by an elite settler imaginary of sustainability, […]

Abstract: This essay explores the factors influencing the Israeli government’s treatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip between 2009 and 2019. The essay argues that the Israeli approach towards the Palestinians can be examined in the broader context of settler colonialism and is not exclusively shaped on a security basis. Semi-structured […]