Abstract: There has been a marked rise in the discourse of recognition in global state politics in the last four decades. In many ways, recognition has ‘become a key word of our time’. Indigenous scholars on Turtle Island note that the Canadian state has a history of using recognition as a strategy to appear to […]

Abstract: This article explores how indigenous Sakha intellectuals responded to Russian colonialism during a period of transformation in the Sakha (Yakut) region. It examines the impact of penal and resource colonialism in the late nineteenth century, the response of local intellectuals to potential settler colonialism in the early twentieth century, and their efforts to transition […]

Description: The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues […]

Abstract: What does the production of public leisure space tell us about the 20th century mechanics of settler colonial dispossession? In the second half of the twentieth century, the nascent State of Hawaii expanded and developed its state parks system in an effort to enhance public leisure and natural resource conservation. In turn, several sites […]

Abstract: This article demonstrates how Indigenous comic creators disrupt or reclaim the conventions of comics in four works: The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw), 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson (Cree), Deer Woman: A Vignette by Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis), and Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls (Tahltan). These comics use innovative paneling to expose […]

Abstract: In this dissertation, I argue that settler colonial practices of “elimination” (A. Simpson 2014) and “extraction” (L. Simpson 2013) are present throughout the artistic choices in the “cultural portion” of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. Within expressions of white settler Canadian nationalism, elimination is seen in the representation of the landscape as […]

Abstract: Professor Kate Meagher questions whether the Nobel Prize awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson reignites debate over whether settler colonialism fostered development through “inclusive” institutions or perpetuated exploitation and exclusion of indigenous populations. This is as part of our Nobel Prize in Economics 2024 series.

Abstract: Behind every hypervisible collective action organised by a social movement is an enormous amount of labour cultivating everyday people’s ability and willingness to mobilise—a political education which takes place both inside and outside the classroom. Despite the close relationship this implies between organising and education, however, distinct bodies of research have emerged around them […]

Abstract: This paper investigates how majority societies’ common ignorance about Indigenous peoples and ongoing settler-colonial reality (“settler ignorance”) has been negotiated in the educational sciences literature. Understanding settler ignorance not as a simple “lack of knowledge” but a powerful issue undermining Indigenous rights and decolonial aspirations, this review sets out to gain new understanding of […]

Excerpt: Two recently published and thoroughly researched books shed new light on the significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s Algerian studies. In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle (2024), Amín Pérez presents an in-depth account of the collaboration between Bourdieu and Sayad. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and other archival material, he vividly details […]