Description: An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel. Focusing on animals […]

Abstract: In this article, we pair biopolitics (the production of social life) with necropolitics (the production of death), as we maintain that they operate together in Puerto Rico where the management of life in its totality and ‘the subjugation of life to the power of death’ run concurrently. This creates the climate for a catastrophic […]

Abstract: This paper employs an Afropessimism framework to critically analyse the Marikana massacre in South Africa, specifically examining the pervasive presence of anti-Blackness within organizational structures. Through an exploration of labour-management dynamics and conflict resolution mechanisms, the study underscores how anti-Black violence operates as a genocidal force under settler colonialism, perpetuating enduring states of social […]

Abstract: This article examines statements issued by municipal governments, local organizations, and Indigenous communities that cancelled Canada Day celebrations in 2021, following news confirming physical evidence of unmarked graves at former residential schools. We argue that the statements reflect political logics of the past, present, and future, including dominant national narratives of liberal multiculturalism, residual […]

Abstract: In classic mystery fiction, criminality is represented at the level of the individual, with a heavy emphasis placed on the moral culpability and guilt of the singular criminal. These retributivist representations are often burdened by a neglect of institutional and structural causes for criminal behaviour. By emphasising individual ‘evil’ and guilt, they have the […]

Abstract: Debates regarding the silencing of minorities and the marginalisation of those colonised is not new. The process of perpetuating colonialism is seen in the narratives regarding immigration of those from the global North who occupied places and spaces in the global South. To critically analyse the discursive reality of tourist routes in the three […]

Abstract: For a cadre of influential figures in politics, business, urban planning, and architecture, the Japanese surrender in August 1945 marked the “closing of the Japanese frontier.” With overseas expansion no longer an option due to the loss of the colonies and global decolonization, political and business elites turned to investments in industrial technology and […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism falls into the category of concepts that may provoke guilt in a certain type of liberal and fury in a certain type of conservative But even if “settler colonialism” goes the way of “critical race theory,” becoming the new pet hate of liberal pundits’ anti-academic screeds and conservative politicians’ draconian legislation, the […]

Description: In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples worldwide face significant health disparities rooted in colonial legacies, including displacement, socioeconomic marginalization, and discrimination. The focus of this chapter is colonialism as a determinant of Indigenous health, emphasizing its structural impact on social, cultural, and economic well-being. It compares global case studies to demonstrate how colonialism continues to impact Indigenous health […]