Excerpt: In the age of settler invasion, all this rectangularity has been a convenient spatial link between local and federal understandings of belonging and ownership.

Excerpt:  Everybody’s story must be told because everybody—not just the few heroes we picked out from the great panorama of the past—made our lives possible. 

Abstract: As humanity looks toward the stars, the prospect of colonizing other planets, particularly Mars, becomes increasingly feasible. However, the enormous challenges posed by space travel, environmental hostility, and human biological limitations have sparked new avenues of exploration. One such avenue involves the use of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to prepare extraterrestrial environments […]

Description: This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or “forgotten” altogether. Divided into four thematic sections – Genocide and Imperialism; War and Genocide; State Repression, Military Dictatorships, […]

Abstract: White settlers across the continent now known as Australia have violently imposed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives since first contact and continue to do so through digital communication technologies. This chapter examines how a culture of white violence toward Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples occurs both offline and online, applying Indigenous […]

Description: This book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources. Positioning storytelling as a research methodology and […]

Abstract: The concluding chapter of Karl Marx’s Capital (volume 1) has received remarkably little scholarly commentary. This is especially surprising as Marx addresses there “the modern theory of colonization” developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. But rather than systematically pursue the issue of colonialism, Marx investigates Wakefield’s theory in order to illuminate the processes of primitive accumulation (or […]

Abstract: American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities continue to experience health disparities and poor health outcomes, which are influenced by social determinants of health. The theory of settler colonialism provides a framework for understanding the structures that affect social determinants of health and the resulting health disparities. Western biomedicine and medical education have been implicated in […]

Abstract: The Department of Indian Affairs and church counterparts who administered Canada’s Indian Residential School System promoted Euro-Canadian physical activities to reform and replace traditional Indigenous physical culture practices like the Sundance and the potlatch. Administrators used Western forms of movement to compel obedience to Euro-Canadian culture, including spirituality. An observer wrote that the students […]

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between reparations as compensation and reparations as transformation in settler colonial Australia. Much of the global reparations debate on colonization and slavery has focused on important demands confronting the historic damages and ongoing accumulation of disadvantage from colonization in ex-colonies or from plantation slavery. Much less has been said […]