Excerpt: During 2020, the resurgent global Black Lives Matter movement demanded a new reckoning with violent, racist, colonial histories. Across the United States and the United Kingdom statues of white colonizers and slave traders were pulled down as protestors insisted that these men—and these histories—should no longer be celebrated. Far from the United States and […]

Abstract: The ‘white replacement’ (sometimes called ‘white genocide’) conspiracy theory has become a key element of contemporary far-right racist ideology. The white supremacist terrorist who committed mass murder at two Christchurch mosques in March 2019 brought his Islamophobia with him from Australia to New Zealand. His online ‘manifesto’, posted just prior to the massacre, was […]

Abstract: This article explores the potential of TikTok videos as a method of relational engagement for Indigenous artists. The concept of relationality is the foundation of Indigenous artistic practices, through which Indigenous art is representative of an ongoing process of knowledge sharing and connection rather than a final product. Within this process, art is given […]

Abstract: Thirty years apart, Justices Brennan and Kiefel in the Australian High Court made deeply anxious remarks to define Indigenous identity and assert the power of the Court over Indigenous subjects and subjecthood in the Mabo and Love judgments. The notion that the breadth and depth of the Colonial legal system in Australia in 1992 […]

Excerpt: Canada’s settler-colonial history haunts the cities, towns, and rural areas of Saskatchewan as nowhere else. Here, where Métis leader Louis Riel was hanged, Idle No More was birthed, and the statue of John A. Macdonald drips (symbolically) with blood, the past is ever present. The largely rural province straddles the Great Plains to the […]

Excerpt: Edward Said responded emphatically to Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution. Walzer had presented an argument that is part of a long-lasting political tradition I have called “the world turned inside out”: the attempt to constitute political regimes elsewhere as an alternative to embracing emplaced change. Walzer had deliberately or unwillingly mis-understood Exodus and its […]

Abstract: “What would we not have eaten?” Jean de Léry posited, remembering the undesirable animals and foodstuffs he consumed while starving on a ship in the Atlantic in 1558. This was a question rhetorically present in nearly all the starvation accounts in sixteenth century colonization narratives. When colonizers starved in the Americas during their attempts […]

Excerpt: The founding father of Midwestern history, Frederick Jackson Turner, is popularly remembered for his essay about the influence of the frontier in American history, but his deeper interest was in the regions which developed after the frontier era passed. Writing a century ago, Turner opined that regional “self-consciousness and sensitiveness is likely to be […]

Description: In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, […]

Abstract: What does Chinese settler colonialism look like? More precisely, what does Chinese communist settler colonialism look like? In this essay, I consider contemporary Chinese empire in Tibet as a structure of both dispossession and domination, including the loss of state sovereignty. As in situations of empire elsewhere, Tibetan responses to colonization range from consent […]