Abstract: As a result of a signed agreement between the Government of Canada and Nunavut, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is contracted to police Nunavut hamlets. This iteration of contracts began when the Territory was formed in 1999 and involves the recruitment of Regular Members from across Canada. To better understand the experiences of […]

Excerpt: Time is central to power and domination in the agrarian environment of Israel/Palestine. Seemingly, agriculture is governed by seasonality, harvest time, and market temporalities. Yet, time in agriculture is mediated by governments, scientists, technologies, and preexisting social orders of power and domination. The excerpt of fieldwork that I share below is part of my […]

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Abstract: Deforestation in the Amazon Forest has increased exponentially in recent years. This is a consequence of local, regional, and global dynamic economical processes changing land-use and land cover (LULC) in the Amazon Forest. There is evidence that land deforested to be used for pasture is now being used for crop production. In this circumstance, […]

Abstract: The processes by which settler colonial rights to manage land were assigned to legal persons were structured by the South Australia Act 1834 and the Real Property Act 1858. Colonial corporations – including the Crown – managed land and natural resources by regulating how rights were held by the family as a gendered, property-holding […]

Abstract: The notion of “sundown town” broadly encompasses the various methods employed by American towns and counties to exclude specific racial or ethnic groups from their borders. This paper mobilizes the sundown town notion to explore the dynamics of exclusion present within Canadian company towns by first establishing a sundown exclusion scale that categorizes cases […]

Abstract: In “A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion As A Settler Literary Land Claim,” I identify an aesthetic theme in Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, that parallels settler colonialism’s political response to Indigenous peoples and their lands. I argue that Ondaatje’s novel adheres to what Margery Fee identifies as […]

Abstract: Examining Japanese history through manga may initially seem unconventional, given the considerable distrust towards the medium in Western scholarship, where it is often viewed as a tool for distorting history. To avoid misinterpretation in the analysis of Japanese comics, it is essential to approach them with what Tessa Morris-Suzuki terms historical truthfulness, recognising them […]

Excerpt: Cowboy characters in popular media have historically been portrayed as uber masculine, violent, and anarchic; and while the cowboy-like protagonists of Cormac McCarthy’s epic Blood Meridian (1985) and Ang Lee’s film Brokeback Mountain (2005) certainly possess these themes, they also problematize traditional and sensationalist representations of the cowboy persona by showing it through a […]

Excerpt: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant (2015) follows the character of Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) through the beautiful and harsh South Dakota wilderness in the 1820s. Based on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel as well as historical events, and co-written with Mark L. Smith, this film portrays the characteristic nineteenth century Western narrative in which European settlers […]