Abstract: Chicanx solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement has a long history that is rooted inself-determination and resistance to settler colonialism and imperialism. The current backlash onthe inclusion of Arab American Studies, and specifically the inclusion of Palestine in Ethnic Studiescurriculum, has mobilized us to collectively organize in order to ensure the fidelity of the […]

Abstract: If human civilisation realises its grand ambitions to establish extraterrestrial human settlements on Mars in the not-so-distant future, how will human rights apply and be enforced? Rather than States, it is thought that space companies such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and the Sierra Nevada Corporation will be the first to establish extraterrestrial settlements. Rapid […]

Abstract: This manuscript dissertation/thesis explores the relationships between Turtle Island and Palestine, contributing to larger discussions in TransIndigenous studies, global Indigenous studies, and within comparative literary studies fields broadly. From Palestine to Turtle Island: Essays on TransIndigenous Literatures creates a dialogue between Indigenous arts and aesthetics centring Indigenous ways of knowing across nations, specifically on […]

Excerpt: Historical Aspect: The Return of Settler Colonialism. The end of co-existence may lead to the annihilation not only of the whole community in Gaza but also of Palestinians in general. It leaves no choice for Israel other than to return to the early days of the establishment of Israel; that is, to establish a […]

Excerpt: Settler colonization since the early nineteenth century on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron provided the foundation for two significantly dif-ferent yet coexisting perspectives on accidents and their possible meanings. Settler and Indigenous peoples drowned in watercraft accidents, fell through the ice, experienced fires, and died or were injured in preparation for or during hunting. […]

Abstract: Bringing critical race theory and settler colonial theory to bear on legal mobilization scholarship, this article examines the ongoing campaign to strike down the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). ICWA sought to end the forced removal of American Indian children from their tribes. If successful, the challenges to ICWA’s constitutionality stand to undermine […]

Abstract: The conception of this article came to us at the end of a land-based healing program informed by Indigenous approaches to wellness. In this article, we dismantle psychiatric diagnosis, particularly the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s notion of sociodiagnosics, we put DSM diagnostic categories under a sociogenic […]

Abstract: It is now widely acknowledged in the scholarship that Israel maintains a settler colonial regime, which has resulted in pervasive human rights abuses. However, the relation between ecology and settler colonialism in Palestine-Israel has only recently been subject to significant scholarly theorisation, despite the growing field of environmental colonialism and the present ecological crisis. […]

Abstract: This article analyzes the published testimonies of French shipwreck survivors to trace the emergence of a settler colonial ideal in nineteenth-century France. Emerging from the encounters of French survivors with the men of the Anglo-World, this ideal encouraged compassionate, paternalist authority as a solution to the ongoing conflict of paternal despotism and disorderly fraternal […]

Abstract: Several Coast Salish First Nations are actively involved in land reclamation and redevelopment in the greater Vancouver region (Canada). Through their for-profit development corporations, entities like Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation (Squamish Nation) and the joint-venture Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh Development Corporation have become key players in the lucrative Vancouver property market in partnership with […]