Abstract: Over the past century, debates have raged about the validity of United States corporate personhood and the scope of a person-corporation’s rights. While important, these discussions have also erased marginalized peoples’ use of corporate personhood as a strategy for securing the rights denied them by governments. This is the case with the Eastern Band […]

Description: Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation […]

Abstract: This study explores the nature of the Fedarb sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi. The author argues that it conflicts with the conventional argument for the necessity of Treaty principles. She argues that the Treaty principles are a device of settler/invader colonialism. The study is a type of Kaupapa Māori writing inquiry. In the […]

Perhaps it is not a coincidence. Settler colonialism was not having a good press in late 2024 – genocide rarely looks promising or inclusive (unless you are a sociopath, and many have articulated their sociopathy in 2024). This is when the Nobel Prize Committee came to the rescue, rescuing a 2001 article to award a […]

Abstract: People disagree over transitional justice’s capacity to help decolonize settler states. This entry reviews four challenges to the decolonizing potential of transitional justice. Those challenges attack the lack of a clear transition, inadequacies of justice, the injurious exercise of political authority by settler populations, and the ongoing colonial imposition of the state as a […]

Excerpt: Boston, emerging from the radioactive mist. Broken towers and elevated highways—a world without the Big Dig—with scattered communities of survivors clinging on to relics of a long-lost past. Fallout 4—the sixth full game in the series—takes the player to 2287 AD, 210 years after a nuclear war in an alternative history timeline. It takes them to […]

Abstract: Emma Kowal’s 2023 monograph, Haunting Biology, takes up the dual task of documenting thechequered history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asking what thismeans for the contemporary field of Indigenous genomics. Teeming with ghosts—the spectresof methodologies, human body parts, and racial theories—Kowal’s storied book links historywith contemporary genomics in a critical exploration […]

Abstract: This paper uses intimate geopolitics to disrupt the focus of ‘rural as white’ narratives in rural geographies. ‘Rural as white’ narratives have evolved from settler colonialism, systemic racism, Orientalism, and institutionalised genocide and enslavement that shape and uphold geopolitical positions of the United States. Meanwhile, intimate geopolitics, particularly Pain’s (2021) concept of geotrauma, has […]

Abstract: This paper asserts that critiques of political science for neglecting Indigenous politics highlight a critical gap that risks overlooking significant conceptual and practical innovations. It emphasizes how Indigenous autonomy claims challenge traditional notions of sovereignty. Scholars of Indigenous politics in Latin America, publishing in area studies journals, provide essential insights into these autonomy claims […]

Abstract: This paper examines the case of Western Sahara through the lens of settler colonial studies. A former Spanish colony in northern Africa, Western Sahara is most often described as ‘occupied’ by Morocco since 1975. I aim at shifting this narrative by applying settler colonial theory, more specifically Veracini’s concept of transfer, to the relation […]