Abstract: Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize […]

Abstract: “Nurturing Resistance: Food Sovereignty in Jonny Appleseed and The Seed Keeper” investigates how Indigenous literary characters engage in subsistence practices—growing, preparing, and consuming food—as a means of resisting the resource extraction, industrial agriculture, and ecological degradation perpetrated by settler-colonial powers on traditional First Nations and Métis territories in present-day Manitoba and Minnesota. This master’s […]

Abstract: This dissertation investigates the reproduction of American settler colonialism in the Tohono (desert, Tohono O’odham territory) and waterways’ physical and ideological reconstruction via the appropriation of O’odham labor and indigeneity since the early twentieth century. Social scientists have emphasized the role of infrastructure, land, labor, race, and gendered and sexualized power in the physical […]

Abstract: In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city government to promote and celebrate its cosmopolitanism. I then explore the spaces where they take place, and the monuments built by immigrant […]

Abstract: The myth that Indigenous sovereignty lives in the past is central to the lore of settler colonial societies. Sustaining that myth entails significant material and symbolic work, particularly organised around the recursive placement of the ‘original moment’ of dispossession and colonisation in the past to make the settler sovereignty that has been imposed appear […]

Abstract: Climate imaginaries – collectively held visions of future climate change – take shape in a variety of media and genres, from computer models to poetry. While some cli-mate imaginaries have proven particularly enduring and have managed to attain a hegemonic status in climate change discourse – for example, the “techno-market” imaginary and the “climate […]

Excerpt: FP: Would you also say that the solidarity between Palestinians and South Africans originates from a recognition of similar experiences of oppression, rooted in racist systems of settler colonialism? SV: I think these similarities are very stark because we can talk not only at the level of economic relationships, but also at the level of […]

Abstract: This dissertation traces the evolution of “emigrant colonialism” from the late nineteenth century through the interwar years. During this period, several traditionally emigrant-sending nations, including Poland, Germany, Italy, and Japan, developed similar strategies for channeling their outflows of migrants into projects for overseas expansion. What they called “emigrant colonialism” involved forming private companies to […]

Abstract: Natimuk is a small rural Australian town that is currently home to farmers, Indigenous Wotjobaluk families, and people attracted by a rural lifestyle. It possesses a history of settler colonialism and oppression of Wotjobaluk communities. The area also attracts rock climbers, whose activities come into conflict with First Nations sites and sacred and endangered […]

Abstract: Liberal theories of property assume a linear and serialized temporal orientation facilitated by title registries, recording systems, and the exaltation of land archives. These assumptions, what I call ‘property-time’, can be productively put into relation with dominant geographic theories of space in two ways. First, I argue that distinguishing liberal notions of property-time from […]