Abstract: There is a movement across settler–colonial institutions of education and research to engage with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges. Many settler and Indigenous governments are pursuing pathways to move forward together to address global problems such as climate change. However, given the pervasive history of exploitation and displacement of Indigenous communities, this development has caused […]

Description: In this compelling study, Anna Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about convicts, natural history and humanitarian concerns about Indigenous peoples. These were fascinating topics for British readers, and influenced government policies in fields such as prison reform, the history of science, and humanitarian and religious campaigns. Using a rich […]

Excerpt: Space is one of the few remaining commons of humanity protected by international law, thanks to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. Outer space is a rare case where a legal and institutional infrastructure of common ownership and commoning of resources already exists. Today, this status of space is under threat. It is increasingly eroded […]

Abstract: Māori wisdom revolutionized the child welfare system through the now manualized Family Group Conferencing method. The global trend of adopting and adapting this culturally grounded child welfare practice has been well documented. However, as this service model is adapted and imported to other countries, so is its legacy of settler colonialism. This qualitative case […]

Abstract: This article examines the activities of Robert Wilmot-Horton as Under-Secretary in the Colonial Office (1821–1828). His support for emigration policies has been the subject of classic scholarship in the history of economic ideas and policy-making. By emphasising the relevance of Thomas Robert Malthus’s intellectual achievements on the relationship between poverty, emigration and capital accumulation […]

Abstract: In “Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide Updated,” Mark Levine and Eric Cheyfitz, taking into account the Post October 7th Israeli invasion of Gaza, revisit their 2017 essay “Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide,” to focus on the question of the limits of the definition of genocide in the1948 Convention. While recognizing […]

Abstract: Background: Indigenous communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by health conditions linked to stigma, warranting the attention of researchers seeking to understand this culturally-determined phenomenon. This study explores the scope of research on health-related stigma conducted with the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. Method: We conducted a scoping review using the method described […]

Description: The Indian government, touted as the world’s largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is “an integral part of India.” The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world’s most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal […]

Abstract: This article presents an analysis of three cartographic depictions of land in Wairarapa and its immediate surroundings, portraying how these maps effected cultural change in the region from initial surveys until the first official purchases of land. Grounded in the historiography of British colonial cartography, the article observes the textual representations of resources that […]

Abstract: This article examines the afterlives of Robert Burns’s ‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’ in the United States of America over the long nineteenth century. It examines three ‘American cots’: the two poems, Gavin Turnbull’s ‘The Cottage’ (1790) and John Greenleaf Whittier’s ‘Snow-bound’ (1866); plus the reconstructed Burns’s cottage erected in Atlanta (1910). It argues that […]