Description: Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated phenomenon that was built upon the foundations of earlier Atlantic empires, and it shows how U.S. territorial and economic development went hand-in-hand. […]

Abstract: Since Israel’s establishment, the Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945 has served as the primary law enabling the state’s repression and dispossession of Palestinians, authorizing land confiscations, house demolitions, deportations, warrantless searches and arrests, administrative detentions, movement restrictions, surveillance, censorship, the outlawing of civil society associations, and the establishment of military courts. This article demonstrates that […]

Abstract: In the years between the end of Greater Reconstruction and the start of the Great Migration, Black Americans founded communities across the Rocky Mountain West. Many of these towns prospered and grew during an era in which racial ideologies underwent profound realignment. As numerous scholars of race document, both national and regional politics along […]

Excerpt: Since 2016, the Republic of Turkey has conducted a series of air and ground military operations in the northern territories of the Syrian Arab Republic. The abducted motivation of these operations was the need to clear those areas of political organisations that threaten Turkish domestic security. The main target has been the Syrian Democratic […]

Abstract: While Jeju Island South Korea is internationally known for its longstanding anti-base movement at Gangjeong Village, the island’s modern history of resistance can be traced to 1991, when the South Korean government’s Special Act on Jeju-do Development ignited an extensive resistance movement. Two conceptual frameworks—colonization by development and political indigeneity—are employed to explain the […]

Abstract: Overincarceration of Indigenous peoples across North America is a critical and deep-rooted social issue. Racialized structural inequality are theorized to underpin racialized inequalities in carceral system outcomes including sentence length, monetary penalties, and supervision. Settler colonialism is theorized to underpin these inequalities per Native people. Taking structural settler colonialism for granted and applying the […]

Abstract: Unique among marginalized groups, American Indians are both citizens of the United States and citizens of sovereign tribal nations, as recognized (but not granted) by federal Indian law. However, even as tribal nations exert increasing economic and political power, criminal legal outcomes for tribal members—who interface with an array of tribal, local, state, and […]

Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship between indigenous peoples and their historical and cultural connections to the past. It critically examines the concept of “indigenous nostalgia”, demonstrating how indigenous groups are often seen as communities where nostalgia is expected to be found. Established concepts like “imperial nostalgia” focus on indigenous peoples as objects of remembrance […]

Abstract: Apocalypse is a persistent form of rhetoric that appears in moments of collective upheaval, a genre that sets up certain courses of action while discouraging others. As rhetoric scholars have recognized, premillennial Christian discourses influence our understanding of apocalypse as the prophetic foretelling of a “world-ending” event—to which the proper response is agreement with […]

Abstract: How does settler-colonial imperialism operate in Asia, and what are the ways in which Asian Indigeneities become mobilised? To address this question, in 2017, I brought together scholars who are observing various settler-colonial and imperial dynamics and developments across Asia for a panel discussion titled ‘Asian Settler-Colonialisms and Indigeneities’ at the 116th annual American Anthropological Association […]