Abstract: This Viewpoint considers the implications of incorporating two interdisciplinary and burgeoning fields of study, settler colonialism and racial capitalism, as prominent frameworks within academic global health. We describe these two modes of domination and their historical and ongoing roles in creating accumulated advantage for some groups and disadvantage for others, highlighting their relevance for […]

Description: This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Position Voting Index, is the most liberal district in the state and 15th in the […]

Abstract: Originating in Denver, Colorado in 1907 and exported as a national holiday in 1934, Columbus Day enacts the logic and institutionalization of conquest. Yet despite the seemingly totalizing imaginary of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous peoples continue to resist erasure. My dissertation, Mapping the Terms of Freedom & The Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries, traces […]

Abstract: Purpose –This article argues that truth recovery practices that take place against the backdrop of ongoing settler colonial erasure, as is the case when considering Zionist colonial violence in Palestine, must focus on combating state-sponsored attempts at erasure, rather than solely providing a platform for the expression of settler guilt. Design/methodology/approach – The article […]

Description: In Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not practice agriculture; that Native people were primarily hunters; that Native people were usually hungry; and that Native people never developed taste or cuisine. Wise argues that colonial […]

Abstract: SpaceX’s rocket launch site, Starbase, lies at the bottom tip of Texas on Boca Chica Beach, where the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico. With SpaceX maintaining a presence in the region since 2014, Starbase is seen as a bridge between Earth and Mars that will generate economic development in the area by […]

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Abstract: This chapter reflects on white feminist anti-trans rhetoric and European utopianism as examples of settler futurity. It outlines my relationship to utopianism and feminism using the example of Germaine Greer’s memoir, White Beech. White Beech traces Greer’s return to Australia from the United Kingdom and her acquisition of property on Yugambeh land with the […]

Abstract: “Settler Colonial Fatherhood in New South Wales and Ontario During the Long Nineteenth Century” is a comparative study of Indigenous, white, and mixed-race fathers in the British Empire as they navigated, and in turn, shaped cultural ideas of fatherhood. Using child custody cases, popular medical guides, newspaper articles, correspondence, memoirs, and wills, this project […]

Abstract: Bison bison, also known as the North American Buffalo, are a keystone species of endemic megafauna in the Great Plains prairie ecosystem. Bison were driven nearly to extinction in the late 19th century when millions of buffalo were massacred by settlers in order to starve Indigenous civilians and force them onto federally-managed Reservations as […]