Abstract: In this project, I turn to Chadwick Allen’s (Chickasaw ancestry) trans-Indigenous methodology to consider how two Indigenous North American authors move within Euro-Western genre, or move beyond it altogether, in making fictive texts that advance decoloniality and Indigenous artistic sovereignty. First, I read Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians as a novel that […]

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic was experienced by nearly every person around the world. However, while the pandemic was borne by everyone, the weight of everyone’s burden was not equal and was heavily influenced by preexisting inequalities and harmful social structures. As they have in the past, Indigenous peoples in Canada, as well as around the […]

Abstract: The USA has witnessed an ongoing war against ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) alongside more virulent expressions of white Christian nationalism (WCN). Opponents maintain the narrative: CRT is an evil ploy by the Marxist Left posing a mortal threat to America. Building on ontological security scholarship and Lacanian theory on affect, discourse, and subjectivity, the […]

Abstract: Since the release of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (2015) report and their 94 Calls to Action, there has been a push to advance truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada. Much of the heavy lifting has been done by Indigenous peoples; but to comprehensively redress injustices there is a need for […]

Abstract: The Aboriginal reserves of the Port Phillip Protectorate were short-lived and unsettled, largely due to the resistance of Kulin clans to residing in one place. In the earliest years of European incursion onto their Country, they contested being shunted from their homelands, networks of ceremonial sites, and wide-ranging harvestscapes onto small, unleased backblocks of […]

Abstract: This article investigates the motivations behind settler whistleblowing on Indigenous labour abuses in nineteenth-century Western Australia, focusing on two key figures, the ex-convict David Carley and the pearler and pastoralist John Walkinshaw Cowan. While historical narratives often portray such humanitarian activists as morally exceptional, this article argues that their motivations were complex, rooted in […]

Description: Though Japanese migration to Brazil started only at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil is now the country with the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan. Collaborative Settler Colonialism examines this history as a central chapter of both Brazil’s and Japan’s processes of nation and empire building, and, crucially, as a convergence of their settler […]

Abstract: This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural […]

Excerpt: With a modest budget but plenty of thrills involving spooky 19th-century ships, frozen wastelands, and ghouls from Nordic folktales, The Damned proudly carries on our Gothic horror revival.

Excerpt: In Native Studies in the north, the analytic frame of settler colonialism has been very productive in providing insights into the nature of the state. A fundamental tenet of settler colonialism is that the settlers came to stay, necessitating dispossession and elimination of the existing population. In Patrick Wolfe’s 2006 classic formulation, settler colonialism […]