Abstract: Drawing on the archival correspondence between the parties involved and the English-language newspaper coverage, this article analyses the failed scheme to settle 110 Russian Molokan migrants in Kaua‘i in 1905–6. Supported by a part of Hawai‘i’s sugar planter elite, the experiment was to provide a blueprint for gradually replacing the predominantly Asian labour force […]

Abstract: This dissertation describes how the specific settler-colonial histories of the United States and Argentina led to similar types of counter-colonial science fiction taking shape in both countries. In Argentina, as opposed to parts of Latin America where ideas of racial mestizaje are more dominant, colonial discourse has exalted a “pure” whiteness that would “civilize” […]

Excerpt: Recent interest in climate change has fostered researchregarding the role of dietary vitamin D and the rise in sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Vikingabandonment. Even in Scandinavian populations withpreexisting advanced adaptation to living at high latitudes,the availability of vitamin D is an important factor deter-mining the possibility of successful migration. […]

Abstract: On March 1938, representatives from the Philippine Commonwealth and Filipino American community organizations organized the First Official Filipino National Convention in Seattle. A committee proposed to send their less-educated kababayan (countrymen) to the Philippines to colonize Mindanao, the archipelago’s Moro (Muslim) and Lumad (non-Muslim and non-Christian Indigenous) South. For Filipino American leaders, state expansion […]

Abstract: This essay discusses settler-colonialism in Palestine and the world system during late neocolonialism. It offers a materialist methodology for interpreting settler-colonial social formations, showing the linkage between settler-colonialism, class, imperialism, and world accumulation. It then considers how race continues to structure local reactions and condition local and international attempts at transformation. It concludes with […]

Abstract: Australia globally promotes itself as a country of diversity, immigration, and tourism, which implies that modern mobilities and travel have been actively occurring in the country. In other words, national branding in Australia cannot be separated from the modern concepts of mobility. Modern mobility and travel to and within Australia, however, can be traced […]

Abstract: From 1919 through the early 1950s, agricultural scientists affiliated with the University of California and agricultural scientists setting up settlements in Mandatory Palestine traveled between California and Palestine on a series of research trips. Building on conversations in historical political ecology and critical political ecologies of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, this article sets out […]

Abstract: In 1969, the United States passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which became a model for environmental policies across the globe. These regulations were intended to improve federal agency actions by bringing information on social and environmental impacts into decision-making. In 2020, the United States Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) drastically changed, or […]

Abstract: In August 2021, wildfires erupted in the southwestern hills of Jerusalem, engulfing and ultimately destroying up to 20,000 dunums of pine forests planted by Israeli settlers. The burned landscape revealed a stunning vista of terraced hillsides, a visual testament to the existence of Palestinian land-based relations hidden under the camouflaging foliage. In this experimental […]

Description: In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail was a busy trading route for a burgeoning deerskin trade. Along this same path, epidemic disease made its way inexorably from […]