Description: Land and Labour narrates the history of the Potters’ Emigration Society, the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration to America. Founded by the revived potters’ union in 1844, and the brainchild of a young Welsh-born activist, William Evans, it sought to solve the problems of surplus labour […]

Abstract: This research focused on understanding the process of productive occupation of the Amazon and the impact on the forms of existence of Indigenous peoples during the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985). We analysed numerous documents from the collection of the National Information Service processes and reports from the Federal Public Ministry and Parliamentary Inquiry Commissions. From […]

Excerpt: Considered to be one of the most celebrated works of Canadian theater, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, a play about an Indigenous woman who moves from the reserve to the city and is eventually murdered, evades critical, postcolonial critique on an international scale. This play, originally written by Ukrainian-Canadian playwright George Ryga in 1967, […]

Abstract: Drawing from the inspiration from Eyal Weizman’s “Frontier Architecture”, this thesis aims to represent Kashmir through the same lens of analyzing the use of spaces as a tool in occupation and resistance. It aims to study spaces not just as social functional forms but rather as weapons in the context of Kashmir being the […]

Excerpt: We must, therefore, ask what is the role of settler colonialism in this late neocolonialstage, and how do the trajectories of the settlercolonial states help us to understand it.

Abstract: Anglo settler states like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States were built through the dispossession of Indigenous lands and through the disruption of Indigenous political, social and economic systems. Over time, however, Indigenous nations have challenged the unjust foundations of these states, forcing settler states to respond with repression but also with […]

Abstract: This chapter examines the Chinese Communist Party’s policies towards Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It argues that the systematic repression of Xinjiang under Xi Jinping’s leadership demonstrates that the Party-state’s approach is an outgrowth of the convergence of two distinct yet interrelated imperatives – an ideological shift toward assimilation of […]

Abstract: In June 2020, Alberta’s United Conservative government under Jason Kenney passed the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA). This provincial act codifies penalties for trespassing or obstructing various forms of “critical infrastructure,” including infrastructure attributed to Alberta’s fossil fuel economy. However, unbeknownst to many, CIDA was passed in direct response to Wet’suwet’en land defenders blockading […]

Abstract: Drawing from Billy Ray Belcourt’s (2020) A History of My Brief Body, this article draws an analogy between the City of Victoria, B.C., located on unceded Lekwungen territory, and a museum to explore the affective nature of settler colonialism within the urban landscape. Like a museum, cities are curated. Each piece of art in […]

Abstract: This article examines transnational Indigenous cooperation among Permanent Participants in the Arctic Council using decolonialism and Indigenization in Canadian foreign policy analysis. The mainstream IR approaches primarily consider Indigenous NGOs as civil society groups united by common interests and cultures and as organizations that promote social change. This study argues that unlike other types […]