Abstract: This article examines settler militarism and how it is mobilized through affective practices that ultimately bolster the settler colonial project. With this intent, it develops the concept of ‘militarized atmosphere’ defined as a staged environment where war is positioned outside politics and critical scrutiny through a series of affective manoeuvres and aesthetics. A militarized […]

Abstract: This essay argues for the centrality and increasing influence of late nineteenth-century US print culture, in the form of printed books, mass-circulation newspapers, and literary magazines, on José Martí’s US-based crónicas (chronicles) that reflect his gradual critical interpretation related to the violence and land dispossession of Indigenous people in the US and their lack of basic […]

Abstract: Do Indigenous peoples in present-day Canada display lower levels of diffuse support than non-Indigenous settlers? Given settler colonial relations (both historic and contemporary) and Indigenous peoples’ own political thought, we can expect that Indigenous peoples would have even lower perceptions of state legitimacy than non-Indigenous peoples. However, there are conflicting expectations regarding whether the […]

Abstract: The Midwest is typically defined as a site of Indigenous erasure. But citizens of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma continue to live in their original homeland despite the official removal of their people from the Wabash River Valley in 1846. Myaamia families who stayed behind used fee simple family reserves as a tool to […]

Abstract: After World War II, the end of Italian colonialism was marked by the1947 Peace Treaty and subsequent UN resolutions in 1949. From 1946 to 1949, post-war Italian governments sought to regain control of their lost colonies by craftingnarratives emphasizing Italian colonists’efforts to establish a“right”to“return toAfrica.”This chapter, drawing from a range of sources including diplomatic […]

Abstract: Taking settler-environmental interest in Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge (ITEK) as a case study, this paper critically examines some ethico-political pitfalls that can accompany attempts to undiscipline the conceptual and academic boundaries between religion and science. Although settler interest in ITEK appears to heed calls to center Indigenous perspectives in response to ecological crises, I […]

Excerpt: As an English settler colonist in Munster during the Nine Years’ War (1593–1603), Edmund Spenser had reason to fear the Irish insurgents. He understood where righteous indignation can lead. In his epic romance The Faerie Queene (1590/96), the wronged show no mercy. After the servant of justice defeats and dismembers the villainess Munera in Book Five, […]

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the understanding of settler colonialism. It elaborates on the notions of colonization and recoding of land in classical political economy. Late eighteenth-century Anglophone intellectuals and policy makers could be skeptical about the benefits of land appropriation, while their counterparts four or five decades later were enthusiastically in favor since both […]

Abstract: This article examines the applicability of Michel Foucault’s biopolitical theory within the Canadian settler colonial context. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, which describes the shift from sovereign power to the regulation of life and populations, is grounded in European historical contexts. In contrast, the Canadian settler colonial experience diverges significantly, necessitating a re-examination of biopolitics. […]

Abstract: Rural Sociology has failed to incorporate Settler-colonialism and Indigenous theory in studying rural social relations. This presents a serious gap in the discipline’s conceptualization of land as the foundation of social reproduction. Indigenous theory provides rich insights about humans’ relations among themselves and with the more-than-human that inform our understanding of Settler colonialism as […]