Excerpt: It is hard to be critical of Martin Jay’s desire to recentre Jewish empathy amidst the ongoing genocide, and I sympathize with his impulse to focus on this. But I think Jay’s argument for empathy needs to reckon with Israel’s settler colonialism, and the state terrorism that upholds it. 

Abstract: This study brings Kichwa epistemology into conversation with extractive governmentality, settler colonialism, and Indigenous environmental justice to demonstrate that extractive governmental frameworks in the Ecuadorian Amazon engage with settler colonial logic. Settler logics found in territorial legal frameworks are intended to displace and destroy practices of Indigenous-forest relations and replace them with “productivity” at […]

Abstract: Rock art, as it was framed by formal South African cultural institutions, held an enduring appeal to the white publics of the apartheid era. In the post-apartheid era, this category of art occupies a prominent and contested space in South African museological discourse. Drawn from the authors’ doctoral research, this article examines some of […]

Abstract: Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a whole school change framework and approach to learning and engagement that originated in the United States (US) and is now implemented around the world. Such a framework requires consideration of cultural responsiveness, particularly in settler colonial states such as the US and Australia. This article examines […]

Excerpt: Released in 2019, Jeff Barnaby’s (Mi’gMaq) Blood Quantum takes the established tropes of North American Zombie Cinema—the unexplained viral outbreak, the infectious bite, and the violent conflict between factions of survivors, the young, pregnant survivor and the symbolic potential of the zombie itself—and deftly reworks them through a First Nations perspective.

Abstract: The educational system within the united states has benefited and continues to benefit from the structures and systems of settler colonialism. Yet, despite such colonizing goals of displacement, removal, and genocide, Indigenous Peoples are still here. This critical Indigenous qualitative research study sought to understand descriptions and interpretations of settler colonialism from the perspectives […]

Abstract: This article contributes to the study of settler colonialism and Indigenous resistance by introducing a novel framework: “Indigenous Diplomatic Resistance” (IDR). Michel Foucault’s theories are useful for highlighting how Indigenous groups use diplomatic channels to resist settler-colonial domination. By applying settler colonialism theory to the Palestinian case, this article offers new insights into Palestinian […]

Excerpt: An examination of settler colonialism from a psychoanalytic perspective is valuable in several ways. Unfortunately, too many people view this very complex topic from a binary perspective, oversimplifying causes as well as modes of redress. One source of oversimplification is a result of the difficulty in managing/mastering our own aggression that is stirred up […]

Abstract: When does settler-colonialism begin? Using the case of Israel/Palestine, this article moves through multiple historical possibilities proposed by scholars and activists to understand the “beginning” of the colonization of Palestine. Patrick Wolfe’s nowfamous work argued that such colonization should be thought of as a structure. I call for expanding his analysis, arguing that thinking […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores how Canadian drug laws impact Indigenous sovereignty andperpetuate settler colonialism. It analyzes cannabis, liquor, and tobacco regulations to show howthey have historically undermined Indigenous rights. The first chapter examines cannabis lawsfrom 1923 to the 2018 Cannabis Act, revealing how these laws limit Indigenous control andcriminalize resistance. The second chapter discusses liquor […]