Abstract: Following the institution of responsible government in 1852, New Zealand rushed towards “full” democracy. Within seventeen years manhood suffrage was won and, by 1893, all adults could vote. The feat stood foremost among the “firsts” that allowed the colony to style itself as a “social laboratory.” Unlike most competitors in the “race” to universal […]

Abstract: Indigenous women and children in Canada are significantly more likely to experience some form of family violence than their non-Indigenous counterparts. However, biomedical and academic discussions around the violence that Indigenous women and their families and communities face reflect a colonial narrative emphasizing Euro-Canadian perspectives and values; a colonial narrative that disconnects the role […]

Abstract: This introduction conceptualizes man-made social environments as ex-perimental spaces and arenas for scientific observation. First, it offers a broaddefinition of the term environment following Etienne Benson’s conceptualizationof environments as relational, mental and physical realms that exerted influenceon various entities. It then discusses the investigative framework of experimentalspaces including both a physical and discursive dimensions […]

Abstract: All children navigate the world by searching for information in their sociocultural contexts (e.g., schools, media, laws) to make sense of their experiences and potential futures. In doing so, Native children, however, must contend with the legacy and ongoing oppression of their Peoples, communities, and ways of being. In this manuscript, we highlight how […]

Abstract: In 1923, Haudenosaunee leader Deskaheh Levi General traveled to Geneva and launched a campaign for Indigenous statehood at the League of Nations. Drawing on a not-so-distant imperial past, the campaign was a novel attempt to use international law to assert Indigenous sovereignty. The Haudenosaunee claim hinged on a seemingly impossible conceit: that an independent […]

Abstract: This article focuses on overlooked aspects of German colonization in southern Chile by examining the treatise Auswanderung und deutsch-nationale Kolonisation von Süd-Amerika mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Freistaates Chile (Emigration and German National Colonization of South America with Special Attention to the Free State of Chile) by Carl Alexander Simon. Simon was a Romantic artist who advocated […]

Abstract: Sketching possibilities for planetary futurity, the first pages of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) unveil an illusive dreamscape where earthly remembrance and intercosmic imagination merge. Butler’s protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is “learning to fly” as she sleeps, but drifting further from the safety of her imagined doorway, she becomes engulfed by flames (4). “[G]rabbing […]

Description: Spanning more than 100 years of Swedish American local history in the Midwest and the West, Jennifer Eastman Attebery’s thorough examination of nearly 300 historical legends explores how Swedish Americans employ these narratives in creating, debating, and maintaining group identity. She demonstrates that historical legends can help us better understand how immigrant groups in […]