Excerpt: The violent removal of the custodians of Indigenous ancestral lands also meant that white settler colonialists illegitimately secured and consumed an unequal amount of energy while additionally generating entropic energy via land exploitation (remember that entropic energy is energy not available to do work).

Abstract: The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center attempts common ground with Native Hawaiians who protect Mauna a Wākea from occupation by astronomical research. Through interface analysis of the ‘Imiloa website, I consider navigation in three ways: a traditional Hawaiian practice of culture, a user interaction within a digital interface, and a rhetorical figure that steers users through […]

Abstract: The default prevention and management policy (DPMP) is a federal policy that was ostensibly designed to address debt and default in First Nation communities in Canada. The policy works through various levels of external intervention into First Nation finances. According to research findings presented in this article, when First Nations are under the policy […]

Abstract: This article explores the relations between Israel’s Mizrahi Jews (Middle East and North African countries’ descendants) and Palestinian citizens as manifested in the popular open-air market of Kafr Qasim, a Palestinian town in central Israel. The town’s market is a unique space where Jews and Palestinians work, shop, and hang out side by side. […]

Abstract: This article explores the role of early migrant workers (“harvest hands” or “hoboes”) in the American wheat industry. It argues that the constant threat of drought and other climatic disasters created a state of climate precarity for workers. In the variable climate of the Great Plains, these disasters could not be forecast, and employers […]

Description: Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as “essential” for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration […]

Excerpt: Though belligerent occupations are, under international law, presumed to be extraordinary, temporary, and conservationist, Israel’s occupation of Palestinians appears normalised, permanent/indefinite, and invasive/interventionist. Given its role in blocking resistance and normalising subjugation, the occupation functions as a tool of and smokescreen for colonialism. While diverging from “classic” settler colonialism in logic, in implementation the […]

Excerpt: ‘While this particular understanding of fugitivity is extremely useful when describing the precarity of life under settler colonial occupation for Indigenous peoples, I would like to propose that an alternative conception of the fugitive is necessary when discussing the creative forms of resistance that have defined much of the #NoDAPL movement. What follows is […]

Abstract: The thesis investigates the role of civil society organisations in the Judaisation of East Jerusalem, Palestinian marginalisation and resilience within such processes. The research conducted is unique due to the analysis of the statements and perspectives provided directly by ‘settlers’ which I believe is fundamental to any work that deals with settler colonialism yet […]

Excerpt: The “Chippewa Lament,” though published anonymously, was most likely written by George Johnston, or Kahmentayha, son of an Ojibwe woman and a Scotch-Irish trader in the northern Michigan town of Sault Ste. Marie.1 George’s father had fought against the United States in the War of 1812 alongside the Ojibwe (Chippewa), part of the larger […]