Abstract: This paper begins by citing Lawrence’s prediction in Studies in Classic American Literature that in the near future the influence of dead Native Americans on U.S. society will begin to work in earnest and that some “real changes” will occur. I then go on to examine whether or not we in the twenty-first century […]

Description: While research demonstrates how Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected by the global nuclear production complex, less attention has been given to tactics that have successfully resisted such projects. Danielle Endres’s Nuclear Decolonization shifts the conversation around nuclear colonialism in important ways, offering an account of how the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute […]

Abstract: This chapter investigates processes of criminalisation and repression of dissident political activism of Israel’s citizens, both Palestinians and Jews, given the state’s particular political formation as a ‘liberal’ settler state. I argue that the operational logic of the settler state that guarantees the rights and privileges of the Jewish citizenry dictates the strategies used […]

Abstract: Indigenous cultural health is an emerging field of research and reflects the unique connections Indigenous peoples have with their Country, culture, and knowledge systems. This narrative review explores the concept of cultural health focusing on the interplay between culture, health, and wellbeing within settler colonial contexts. The review is mostly focused on Australian research, […]

Abstract: Within settler colonial societies around the world, the racialisation of settlers of colour as “invaders” exemplifies how invasion paradoxes operate on Indigenous lands that remain both stolen and unceded. The Reclaim Australia movement was active in 2015–2016 and frequently denied its racism as it protested the presence of Muslims within Australian society. Whilst Islamophobia […]

Abstract: Building on the idea of religion and science as conceptual maps of intellectual territory, I use a settler colonial analysis as a framework for thinking about decolonizing religion and science in a way that moves away from abstraction and towards action; addressing not just the ideas, but the tools of control—the fences—that impose ideas […]

Abstract: Within the broader project of studying early Indigenous literatures in Canada, this dissertation attends to Anishinaabe and Nêhiyaw discourse in government reports, missionary letters and diaries, newspapers, and other forms written between 1815 and 1874 to trace the range of ways Indigenous people responded to changing exigencies in their environments from mihkwâkamîw-sîpiy, miskwaagaamiwi-ziibi (Red […]

Abstract: In this dissertation, I propose the Settler Doctrine to position federal Indian law as profoundly determined by and organized around the legal, historical, and mythical entanglements between land, religion, and indigeneity. Neither land, religion, nor indigeneity are given natural categories. They emerged as anthropological concepts, pop culture fantasies, colonial myths, racist categories, and legal […]

Abstract: This thesis uses the concept of the settler imaginary to conduct a critical discourse analysis of113 news articles covering the Wet’suwet’en-CGL conflict. Specifically, I engage with 3 researchquestions: 1) What are the narratives that frame Wet’suwet’en dispossession as legal or “just”? 2)How does mainstream media express understandings of territory and resource rights in thecontext […]

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