Excerpt: This collection of papers originates from a June 2024 workshop at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) as part of the Settler Colonial Paradigms research program. Scholars from the Research Centre for Historical Studies at University of Groningen, explore settler colonialism across different time periods, from the ancient Mediterranean to future visions of Mars colonization, analysing its core characteristics […]

Access the special issue here. Excerpt: In NAIS 1:2 (fall 2014) inaugural editors Jean M. O’Brien and Robert Warrior produced a special forum entitled “Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from Indigenous Studies.” Responding to growing discussions about the academic boycotts of Israel, and the NAISA Council Declaration of Support for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (December 13, 2013), […]

Abstract: Since Argentina became the world’s largest consumer of glyphosate, Argentine producers’ lives, livelihoods, and landscapes have become intimately entwined with agrochemicals. This article follows a range of settler-farmers making “common sense” decisions about how to live and farm with agrochemicals in Argentina’s genetically modified (GM) soy belt. In a process I call agrochemical worlding, […]

Description: Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures.In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by indigenous communities. This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective. Emile Badarin shows that in colonial contexts, settlers use recognition to legitimize […]

Abstract: Settler planners who are committed to advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in settler colonial cities are actively decolonizing their praxis. In this Viewpoint, I discuss how settler colonialism is embedded in planning Canadian cities to argue that settler planners should critically interrogate their relationship with the land to address colonialism’s ecological and social legacies. […]

Description: This book develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine—like other imperial and settler colonial projects—cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Race and the Question of Palestine explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is best conceptualized as a structure rather than a singular historical event, underscoring its permanent, ongoing and systemic nature (Wolfe 1994, 96; Wolfe 1999, 2). Unlike other colonial formations, settler colonialism’s primary goal of elimination is not race but the expropriation of land. This process is perpetuated through various mechanisms, seeking to “destroy […]

Excerpt: In late November of 2024, just as this special issue was being edited, the then-President of the United States, Joe Biden, created a stir when he was spotted leaving a bookstore on Nantucket clutching a copy of the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi’s 2017 monograph, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. The subtitle of Khalidi’s book, A History […]

Abstract: This research addresses the demographic transformations in Algeria during theFrench colonial period (1830-1962) and the impact of settlement policies and forcedmigration on the social and cultural fabric of the country. The study relies on historicaland social analysis of various references and demographic and statistical data, as well astestimonies and historical memories. The research highlights […]

Abstract: This essay explores Donald Trump’s proposal to “own Gaza” and develop it into a  “riviera”  that would draw  “people from all over the world.”  The author argues that it aligns with Trump’s broader expansionist ideology and reflects a continuation of the US’s imperial legacy. Through a comparison between the destruction of Gaza and that […]