Abstract: This review essay examines how studies of transpacific modernity take up the entanglements between settler coloniality in Latin America and Japanese imperialism to grapple with formations of racism and modes of colonial dispossession that emerge outside the traditional purview of US-centric accounts of the transpacific. In their studies, Torres-Rodríguez, Le, Chang, and the contributors […]

Abstract: Control of time is critical to the maintenance of settler colonial states. In the United States, which relies on linear conceptions of time, time is treated as moving forward, which implies a specific view of the national past. It also moves backward, which proscribes a particular understanding of future possibilities. In both cases, time […]

Abstract: Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “decolonize” landscape studies. This article highlights the Indigenous cultural landscape (ICL), a policy tool used since the 1990s to protect aboriginal landscapes globally, as a vital resource for geographers interested in […]

Abstract: Rowland Hill’s 1837 Post Office Reform is credited with influencing Britain’s Postage Act of 1839 which introduced uniform, low pricing and prepayment of mail. These reforms then influenced the 1874 Treaty of Bern. Post Office Reform was written while Hill served as the South Australian Colonization Commission’s secretary. Studying this context, we gain new […]

Abstract: In the current global landscape, characterized by religious fervour, social and political unrest, economic instability, and environmental challenges, spiritual leaders stand as pivotal agents of change. Their role is especially crucial in contexts marred by ingrained injustices and persistent conflicts, such as the Palestinian–Israeli settler colonial context—a reality I have been intimately involved with […]

Abstract: How can a posthumanist conceptualization of landscape, one that embraces temporality and practice, help us to better understand contemporary settler colonialism? This thesis explores this proposition through its analyses of the desire of the Israeli state to ‘settle’ the Naqab. The Naqab, an area located in the south of modern-day Israel and within its […]

Abstract: Malek Rasamny and Matt Peterson’s 2018 documentary Spaces of Exception explores the histories and political commonalities found between Indigenous and Palestinian communities in North America and South-West Asian refugee camps, respectively. Building on the theory of inter/nationalism developed by Steven Salaita (Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), as well as […]

Abstract: The gendering of the library profession toward female dominance, occurring between 1876 and 1905, coincided with an influx of affluent, educated white settlers in California. The simultaneity of Westward expansion and gendering of librarianship laid the framework for white women settlers to find successful careers in libraries in California. The first City Librarian of […]

Abstract: This article argues that imperial identities embracing Britishness within Anglo-settler colonies significantly influenced provisions for religious education in Australia and New Zealand primary schools from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, corresponding with James Belich’s chronology of recolonisation. The article begins with an overview of the foundational Education Acts of Victoria, South Australia, […]

Abstract: This article introduces the Special Issue on unsettling geographies of tourism. The overarching aim of this collection of articles is to bring together critical and creative analyses that help destabilize tourism’s relationship to settler colonialism. In this Introduction, we provide an overview of literature on geographies of settler colonialism and tourism, which works to […]