Abstract: Co-authored by two theatre practitioner-scholars, this chapter explores the ‘homescape’ of The June Motel and the associated Netflix series Motel Makeover (2021), set in Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada. We use a practice as research methodology to analyse and unravel settler ideologies, ecologies and gendered domesticities performed and embedded in the scenographies and landscapes of The June […]

Abstract: This masters thesis looks at the history of a residential Indian boarding school in the United States in the last decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th century. This work examines punitive configurations — sedimented practices and ideologies of punishment as well as their contextualization — at Genoa U.S. Indian […]

Abstract: In this article, I explore a heritage scandal known as the “sacking of the Frissell,” which occurred in the Indigenous Zapotec town of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico. One evening in 2006, it is said, the Frissell Museum’s entire collection of artifacts disappeared. Mitleños were shocked and appalled when it was revealed that the “theft” […]

Abstract: Many Indigenous youth and young adults in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have reported low vaccine confidence, which has been linked to lower vaccination rates for COVID-19, MMR, HPV, DTaP-IPV-Hib, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Narrative-based health promotion approaches, including those focused on strengthening vaccine confidence, have been used in public health […]

Description: How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians: Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of […]

Abstract: In this chapter, I commence by proposing the reframing of the Anthropocene to the ‘Colonialcene’ as a means to recognise the historical and ongoing impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples and ecosystems (their more-than-human kin). I move on to provide an overview of Indigenous Knowledge (IK), detailing its inherent holistic nature and its place-specific […]

Abstract: The question of Chinese settlerhood in early British Columbia has long been overlooked in scholarly circles due to the historiographical gap between Chinese Canadian history and settler colonial studies. To bridge this gap and decolonize Chinese Canadian history, I apply the ‘entangled histories’ method to examine it through the lens of settler colonialism. Drawing […]

Abstract: The Moreton Bay penal station was established in 1824 in a remote area of northern New South Wales – now part of Queensland – to punish convicts for offences committed in the colony. To discourage these ‘repeat offenders’, prisoners performed hard labour in irons and were regularly flogged under an unforgiving tropical sun. Among […]

Abstract: Congress created the United States Fish Commission (USFC) in 1871 to investigate the causes of fish diminution on the Atlantic seaboard, but the USFC’s remit soon expanded from study to intervention. In settler California, the USFC set up one of its first hatcheries for chinook salmon propagation on the McCloud River, a tributary of […]

Abstract: In the trans-Mississippi West, white Union veterans and their families commemorated the American Civil War in ways that supported the colonization of American Indians and privileged themselves. This article analyzes the gendered dimensions of this process. In Memorial Day addresses, monument dedication speeches, and GAR and WRC records, western Union veterans celebrated themselves for […]