Abstract: Interpretations of the so-called genomic diversity problem in precision medicine research reflect an enduring colonial logic tied to liberal identity/difference politics, prioritizing representational equity, diversity, and inclusion over substantive engagement with Indigenous sovereignties on their own ontological terms. This review critically analyzes not the underrepresentation of diverse populations in genomics but rather how the […]

Abstract: This study aims to contribute to a comprehensive project to elucidate Arctic political processes that comprise the sum of conflicts and adjustments arising among multiple stakeholders. Using Denmark and Greenland as case studies, this study examines the nature of the master–servant relationship inherent in the colonization of indigenous societies by the state. It also […]

Description: Spirits of Extraction explores the civilisational metaphysics of race, which emerged with the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century, and helped to secure (settler) colonial sovereignty especially in the nineteenth century. Following the Methodist movement, the book traces a route from the evangelical awakening in eighteenth-century Bristol through the Methodist revivals of the Cornish […]

Abstract: By centering the question of Palestine, this article contributes to a decolonial critique of German critical theory à la Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School. The article’s intervention is prompted by the November 2023 ‘Principles of Solidarity. A Statement’ (PoS), of which Habermas was a coauthor. Released amid a full-scale Israeli assault on the […]

Abstract: In this essay, two Palestinian healers, mental health workers, and fathers offer reflections on trauma, healing, and love in the face of Israeli genocide and settler-colonial violence across Palestine. Recognizing that the trauma and healing processes will extend much further than any moment of ceasefire, the authors, one of whom survived the genocide in […]

Abstract: This thesis investigates the history of the natural science collection of the University of St Andrews to examine the relationship between natural history and empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the foundation of the collection, during the years of the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews (1838-1917), this thesis […]

Description: Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these […]

Description: For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It provides a key to understanding why the trans-Appalachian West was prone to violent struggles, especially between white […]

Abstract: Examining advocacy for multiculturalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this article challenges the idea that Indigenous peoples were not part of the discussions that led to the policy of multiculturalism. Instead, it demonstrates that their activism directly led to some inclusion in the early years of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and […]

Abstract: The formation of Liberia in the nineteenth century as a resettlement for freed and formerly enslaved Black Americans represents an intriguing puzzle in the articulation of the distinction between postcolonialism and settler colonialism. The small West African country is sometimes lumped together with the now postcolonial African countries that underwent structural decolonisation in the […]