Abstract: The Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s (CBC) long-running documentary series, The Nature of Things, featured a controversial episode titled The Ice Bridge. This documentary forwarded and dramatically re-enacted a hypothesis known as the Solutrean Hypothesis, that asserts the Americas were peopled first by sailors from Europe. This hypothesis, having been thoroughly debunked, is one that gets […]

Description: In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an institution that many people associated with the streets of Calcutta or Turkish […]

Abstract: In this thesis I investigate mimetic Indigenous artwork as a productive site of settler colonial disruption. More specifically, I attend to the potential of these artworks to disorient romantic habits of viewing landscapes. Framed as a critique of settler logics, I argue that the underlying ideologies of Euro-American romantic landscape art have tracked from […]

Abstract: Heritage-making’s intrinsic dissonance has been thoroughly established in the field of critical heritage studies, and yet it is a reality that continues to be obscured in heritage practice in settler colonial cities. Authorised heritage discourse continues to project existing state-led systems of heritage-making as a self-evident ‘public good’ for current and future generations. In […]

Abstract: This project revalues the often underrated concept of ambivalence as a distinct concept pregnant with creative potentialities and applies it to settler Newfoundland culture as a research lens. In the process, our understanding and image of the place are enriched by reinterpreting a collection of charged contexts, which have hitherto been considered little related, […]

Abstract: In the era of Climate Change, many are concerned that the end of the Anthropocene, or the end of the era of human life on Earth, is upon us. Western European colonialism and its subsequent systems (settler-colonialism, colonial-capitalism, and globalization – sometimes termed “neocolonialism”) have all been implicated in contributing to unsustainable behaviors linked […]

Abstract: This paper considers epistemic dimensions of injustices associated with settlers self-indigenization through false claims to being Métis. First, we provide an analytic characterization of the act of self-indigenization. Afterwards we spell out how confusions surrounding the meaning of the term ‘Métis’ generate lacunae in the social imagination of the dominant society in Canada. These […]

Excerpt: Future space explorers and planetary settlers will face unique, immense challenges. The heroism demanded of future colonizers of the Moon, Mars, and beyond transcends our conventional understanding of courage and sacrifice. These pioneers will embark on perilous journeys into the unknown, facing the harsh trials of extraterrestrial environments, isolation, and the relentless pursuit of […]

Description: Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive framework was lacking that would more fully examine and express children’s relationship with political power. Rather than simply hitching children’s resistance to standard theories of resistance, Heidi Morrison seeks to meet children on their own terms. […]

Abstract: Substantial and necessary research examining the violence perpetrated against Native women continues to flourish, while violence and masculinity studies focused on Native men draws little attention. Meanwhile the murder rate of Native men is three times higher than Native women, twice as high as white men, and occurs at the hands of police more […]