Abstract: This largely conceptual multi-article dissertation centers settler colonial theory in a critical interrogation of Wolf eradication and management policy (WEMP) toward the ultimate goal of dismantling injurious structures and systems that brutalize Wolf and other Indigenous animals. Wildlife policy and practice are contemporary manifestations of the long-standing historical project of settler colonialism and its […]

Excerpt: Last week, on November 14th, Māori Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke rose in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Parliament to vote on a proposed Treaty Principles Bill. Opposing the proposed law, she tore the bill in half and led a haka alongside members of her party, Te Pāti Māori. e haka, a traditional Māori expression […]

Abstract: This work investigates the establishment of the first Zionist pioneering movement of Italy, Hechaluz. At the end of WWII in Italy, Jewish members of the Allied armies set up educational and training facilities for pioneering Zionism (halutzism). There had never been a halutzist movement in Italy, so the aim was to create one to […]

Description: As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation’s representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped […]

Description: The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the […]

Abstract: This article examines the way in which the repatriated population from the former Portuguese colonies in Africa is integrated into the speeches delivered during the solemn parliamentary commemorations of the Carnation Revolution. Based on a systematic analysis of the speeches of all the Portuguese political actors who took part in the commemorations of 25 […]

Abstract: Oral histories of Latina domestic workers in the United States feature hybrid narratives combining accounts of illness and “toxic discourse”. We approach domestic workers’ illnesses and disabilities in a capacious, extra-medical context that registers multiple axes of precarity (economic, racial, and migratory). We are naming this context “settler maintenance”. Riffing on the specific and […]

Abstract: Drawing from the logic of carcerality, and refined through theories of settler colonialism, I argue in this paper the following. First, carcerality is not just a tactic of settler colonization in Canada for bodily controlling populations, but a key feature of settler colonial claims to land and territory; imposing carceral spaces on Indigenous people […]

Abstract: This chapter explores the notion of ‘being in common’ in the drama classroom after quarantine, (re)finding collectivity through drama pedagogies, and reckoning with socio-ecological justice in local sites of learning. Using moving through place, writing-in-role, and found pedagogies as frameworks for learning, the chapter examines how collective explorations of local public places can instigate […]

Abstract: Geography scholarship about Indigenous politics in Canada frequently draws upon ideas from the field of settler colonial studies (SCS). Yet, criticisms of SCS and the application of its concepts to Canadian contexts are becoming increasingly common. Such criticisms include: an overly rigid distinction between settler colonialism and so-called ‘franchise’ colonialism, a tendency to rely […]