Abstract: Indigenous Children in the United States have disproportionately experienced child welfare involvement since the early 20th century. State-sanctioned child removals occur within a broader historical pattern of US-Indigenous policies aimed at erasing Indigenous Peoples to acquire land. Although the child welfare system was not explicitly designed for that purpose, its outcomes nonetheless perpetuate erasure […]

Abstract: This paper explores the role of polar meteorological stations in Soviet colonial ambitions during the Arctic geopolitical competition of the 1920s and 1930s, examining their enduring legacies in contemporary Russian Arctic policy. Amidst growing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, these stations became essential tools for asserting territorial sovereignty, collecting data crucial to the development […]

Abstract: Research has been critical of photography as a patriarchal and colonial tool while also focusing on representation of outdoor spaces as white. While research has examined patriarchy and colonialism in visual historical practice, it has not explicitly addressed the connections between US landscape photography and the foundations of national parks and public lands. This […]

Abstract: There are inequities for Māori (Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) in relation to chronic pain, including a disproportionate prevalence of chronic pain, a greater impact of pain, and reduced long-term benefit from chronic pain services. This likely arises from impacts of colonisation and racism within health services. The study aimed to determine the experience […]

Abstract: Thomas Paine has long been heralded as a voice of universal egalitarianism. That representation proceeds from wishful misattributions of antislavery writings and concerted misreadings of the existing archive that continue to this day. Building on insights from critical race theory, Black Marxism, settler colonial theory, and Indigenous studies, this article reveals a consistent pattern […]

Abstract: South African Irma Stern (1894–1966), Canadian Emily Carr (1871–1945), and Australian Margaret Preston (1875–1963) all attained iconic status as artists in their respective countries. Early appraisers commended their incorporation of Indigenous and Black peoples in a national modernist canon through the use of post-impressionistic sensibilities. Despite notable similarities in biography, vision and oeuvre, these […]

Abstract: Applying an anthropology of ethics approach to the study of settler-colonialism, this article discloses the settler-colonial ethical outlook that animates the most activist circles in West Bank settlement society. By “settler-colonial ethical outlook” I mean the set of proper and improper motivations for appropriating land (according to the settlers). Such an analysis reveals how […]

Abstract: The persistence of race thinking and racial violence toward Palestinians is inextricably linked to a century-long imperial and settler-colonial project. Yet, state-centered conceptions of anti-racism have seldom been the formative grammar upon which Palestinian sovereignty struggles are waged. Inspired by pedagogical encounters teaching critical race studies in Palestine, the author asks: What do divergent […]

Abstract: Northern Canada, like the rest of Canada, is a space established and reproduced through processes of settler colonialism. With a focus on the Northwest Territories, this piece examines the relationship between two arenas of dispossession: welfare colonialism and resource colonialism. While these two branches of colonialism are often articulated as distinct, we ask, how […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism has become an increasingly important concept over the past decade, and while geographers typically think about it from a white/native perspective, I explore how ethnic studies, specifically, Chicana/o studies, has responded to it. For different reasons both disciplines have hesitated to fully interrogate the significance of the concept. In the case of […]