Abstract: In 1976, Israel physically planted USA Independence Park over the ruins of eight Palestinian villages it depopulated during the Nakba, which are located near Jerusalem. The creation of this ‘protected area’ over ‘Allar, Bayt ‘Itab, Dar al-Sheikh, Dayr Aban, Dayr al-Hawa, Jrash, Khirbat al-Tannur, and Sufla was sponsored by US taxpayers. This article critically […]

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Excerpt: Australia House was the first of London’s so-called Dominion Houses, those High Commission buildings that housed offices for the governments of Britain’s self-governing colonies, or ‘Dominions’, as they were known from 1907.1 These buildings opened in central London from 1918. To federationists of the New Imperial era, who held hopes of uniting a Greater […]

Description: Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling is a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America. To give voice to this complicated identity, this volume investigates how cultures of ghost storytelling foreground a sense of […]

Description: The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders – from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera — and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics. Instead, Ciaran O’Neill here makes the case for a broader, more […]

Abstract: This article revisits the history of the 1948 Nakba and suggests that hitherto literature has not explored in depth how the racialised liberal world order has come to bear on settler colonial strategies of dispossession. It was the international relations practice of ‘population exchanges’ that afforded a humanitarian operational logic to structure the mass […]

Abstract: This paper wrestles with the nexus of settler colonialism, the expropriation of Indigenous lands to establish the United States land-grant system, and the field of Family Science. Family Science programs are embedded within the power structures of the universities to which they belong; certain characteristics of these academic units—especially their emphasis on engagement and […]

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Abstract: The Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the Brazilian genocide against Black and Indigenous populations provide an opportunity to investigate the processes of elimination in settler-colonial nations. This article aims to examine the conditions under which settler states can exercise sovereign power against subaltern populations. It is argued that the escalation of […]

Abstract: This chapter examines Nazi imperialism in Poland and Eastern Europe from 1939 to 1941 but from the perspective of the individual resettler. Tasked with remaking and resettling the German frontier, individual resettlers comprising the Volksdeutsche were far from passive gears in the massive Nazi bureaucracies and apparatuses in charge of resettling the East. The […]