Excerpt: Zahi Zalloua’s Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause (2023) is well worth reading. In chapters on identification and surveillance, occupation and colonization of thought, ressentiment and paranoia, and sovereignty, the book offers an urgent, vitally intelligent critical-theoretical take on “Palestine”—I scare-quote the word to mark its overdetermined multivalence, its simultaneous signification as subjectivity, ethnicity, conflict, political-cultural cause, […]

Description: In America’s collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York’s modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of […]

Abstract: Globally, Indigenous languages face specific challenges to their revitalisation. In this article, I explore the ongoing barrier of settler colonialism to the revitalisation of te reo Māori (the Māori language). Through engaging in affective-discursive analysis of semi-structured interviews with twenty-two young Māori men, this article focuses on how young Māori take up or reject […]

Abstract: This article examines the emergence of student encampments protesting university complicity with Israeli occupation of Palestine. It analyzes these encampments as sites of resistance, highlighting their disruption of university space and their challenge to administrative authority. The encampments’ use of barricades and their occupation of central campus locations are interpreted as acts of counter-enclosure, […]

Abstract: The employment of mules and the networks supplying them to German Southwest Africa (1884–1915, modern-day Namibia) are at the centre of this article. Mules are infertile and difficult to breed yet of use specifically in disease-prone and arid environments. In German Southwest Africa, Germany’s first and only settler colony, colonists depended on them to […]

Abstract: Encouraging a new way for non-Indigenous researchers to think reflexively through their positionality and relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and claims for decolonization in their research, this paper introduces the concept of anti-colonial reflexivity. Anti-colonial reflexivity describes the slow process of looking into our genealogies, not simply to locate the names of ancestors in […]

Abstract: This paper studies the Canadian mineralogical collections sent to the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. These collections were curated by William Logan, the first director of the Geological Survey of Canada, which operated as a leading institution in mineral exploration, colonial expansion, and settler statecraft in Canada. […]

Abstract: In the article “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point,” Engebretsen and Baker call on researchers to reexamine the ways we employ the rhetoric of decolonization in global health. They critique the “reformist” strand of decolonization which fails to mitigate structural […]

Abstract: The range and diversity of ideas that comprise the conceptual terrain of ontological security (OS) – the security of being – hold much value for understanding political geographies, and how hegemonic and oppressive relationships threaten our collective, multi-species being in the world. Yet, the directed study of (ontological) security has largely been framed through […]

Economist Noah Smith recently addressed the question of Indigenous claims in his Substack newsletter (‘No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups’, 30/11/24; available at: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are-not-on-indigenous-land). Smith is a successful Substack contributor reaching more 286.000 subscribers; his defence of settler colonialism as a mode of domination […]