Excerpt: The settler colonists’ dream for Palestine is its Americanisation. Their dream is to achieve the American dream. This dream is not suburban white picket fences and golden retrievers catching frisbees in the back yard. It is not of leafy socialist kibbutzim and a haven from murderous European anti-Semitism. It is the dream of the […]

Abstract: This paper utilizes raciolinguistic genealogy (Flores, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021:111–115, 2021) to explore an historical case study of Spanish Franciscan missionaries in Alta California during an early period of colonization spanning the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. In the study, I apply a raciolinguistic lens to investigate the racialized and racist basis […]

Excerpt: The nation-state is often the container for conversations about how to remember and commemorate aspects of Australia’s history. In Australian memory studies, much of the research on settler colonialism, Indigenous–settler relations and colonial forgetting focuses on the national level. Cutting through this tendency, chapters in this collection focus on the local level, on places […]

Description: How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence […]

Excerpt: The founding of Liberia by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the early 19th century represents a pivotal moment in US foreign intervention, initiating a series of events whose consequences reverberated beyond its historical time frame. The ACS was founded in 1816 with the primary intention of repatriating free African Americans and emancipated slaves […]

Description: “Statuomania” overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria’s hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were “repatriated” to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving […]

Abstract: Geography scholarship examining Canadian colonialism often draws upon concepts andcategories from the field of Settler Colonial Studies, including Patrick Wolfe’s definition ofsettler colonialism as a “structure rather than an event.” In this brief intervention, I arguethat historical Marxist debates about structuralism and social class have importantlessons for the way geographers characterize Canadian colonialism today. […]

Abstract: The pastoral economies introduced during the colonial invasion have radically transformed Australian diets, cultures, and ecosystems. Stolen land was tenured to settlers and emancipated convicts to develop profitable and productive enterprises for the British Empire. Land rights and animal care are intrinsically linked to modern food systems, yet there is a gap in Australian […]

Excerpt: On any given night in a Canadian city, it is possible to eat at restaurants offering a wide variety of cuisines – from Moroccan to Vietnamese, from French to Sri Lankan. However, it is almost impossible to go to a restaurant that serves Indigenous cuisines. In Canada, there are foods that are considered “Indigenous” […]

Abstract: Drawing from Michael Rothberg’s (2019) concept of the “implicated subject,” this paper examines Canadian social work’s implication in settler colonialism from past to present through its role in Indigenous child removal from the Indian Residential Schools to the Sixties Scoop and contemporary child welfare. The “implicated subject” untangles social work from dominant discourses that […]