Abstract: To make a nation on stolen land using enslaved labor, the early American state relied on gun and immigration policy to create a well-armed white settler population. This legacy continues to animate modern conservativism, which is staked on supporting gun-friendly and anti-immigrant policies. Despite this history and ongoing political reality, however, the sociology of […]

Abstract: University-level sustainability education aims to reduce future harm to people and the planet, however, this goal is challenged by the tight relationships between Western academia and settler colonialism (SC). As a process that is predicated upon Indigenous erasure and harmful land relations, SC is antithetical to sustainability goals. This raises questions about how those […]

Abstract: Tourism development in the ‘post-conflict’ Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of Bangladesh proliferated after the CHT Peace Accord was signed in 1997. The Accord positioned tourism as an important component in reasserting Indigenous Jumma peoples’ rights and facilitating regional socio-economic recovery. However, the Jumma people have remained firmly on the periphery of development discourse […]

Abstract: Wildfires and subsequent community evacuations offer a highly visible example of climate change-induced dislocation. In so-called Canada, both the changing climate and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples are policy priorities for the federal government and certain provincial governments, like the Province of British Columbia. Despite these purported policy priorities, we find evidence that colonial logics–like […]

Description: In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded in secrecy after the Second World War. What broke the silence in […]

Abstract: Native American (NA) populations in the USA (i.e., those native to the USA which include Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians) have confronted unique historical, sociopolitical, and environmental stressors born of settler colonialism. Contexts with persistent social and economic disadvantage are critical determinants of substance misuse and co-occurring sexual risk-taking and suicide outcomes, […]

Description: Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope explores the ways in which Palestinians negotiate physical and symbolic erasures by producing their own archives and historical narratives. With a focus on the city of Jaffa and its displaced Palestinian population, Noa Shaindlinger argues that the Israeli state ‘buried’ histories of mass expulsions and […]

Abstract: This article examines Stephen Graham Jones’s 2020 horror-revenge novel The Only Good Indians, arguing that the work’s diversions from generic convention are an enactment of epistemic and formal refusal. The novel’s refusals function to both expose the constraints of settler-colonial subjectivity and story other modes of selfhood and relationality. The framework of refusal can also […]

Abstract: In this case study of an evidence-based violence intervention with Indigenous youth in the southwestern United States, Cruz examines four different types of what he calls “micro-erasures”: individual-level interactions that correct, pathologize, punish, or otherwise supplant Indigenous ways of being with the taken-for-granted norms of settler society. Using critical realist grounded-theory methods, he demonstrates […]

Abstract: This article analyses the origins of the so-called frontier spirit as the main feature of the Japanese pioneers who were the grass-roots agents of Japanese expansion into Asia. It argues that this narrative traces back to the government-sponsored cultivation program in Hokkaidō, where so-called tondenhei were employed as farmer-soldiers to open up the new frontier region […]