Abstract: Facilitating settler decolonization is multi-faceted and non-linear. Based on existing scholarship, the key components that facilitate settler decolonization encompass taking responsibility for one’s own learning and unlearning, self-examining that leads to a decolonial practice, building relationships with Indigenous people and place, and revising settler narratives to acknowledge the settler problem and Indigenous sovereignty. While […]

Description: Marketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry, public lands in the United States, and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces. Combining social media analysis, digital ethnography, and historical research, Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry’s marketing strategies, unraveling its complicity in […]

Abstract: For this review forum, Peter H. Hoffenberg, Brian C. Black, and Libby MacDonald Bischof were invited to explore issues raised in Jarrod Hore’s Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism.

Abstract: Focusing on recent community efforts to repair Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian statue, this article reads the statue as a public thing. In doing so, I argue that sympathy active at the 1911 unveiling of Taft’s Indian statue and 2020 restoration capture what I call settler sympathy. Instead of granting the ability to see from […]

Abstract: Man’ei, established in 1937 by Japan’s Kwantung Army in the occupied northeast region of China, was Japan’s core cultural propaganda institution overseas during World War II. This study systematically examines the origins and developmental background of Man’ei, with a particular focus on the colonial policies promoted by the Kwantung Army, such as the ‘Twenty-Year […]

Abstract: Terraforming has long been one of the most popular concepts in SF and space colonization discourses to think about the necessary territorial changes on other planets to make them livable for human life. More recently, however, terraforming has made the journey from alien environments back to Earth to reflect on how colonialist-capitalist practices have […]

Excerpt: While interplanetary travel is presented as a valuable endeavor, in which space explorers will visit other planets and colonize them, it has also been termed by some scholars as a ‘renewed form of settler colonialism’—the legacy of colonization on Earth that had led to disastrous consequences such as genocide, displacement of Indigenous communities and […]

Abstract: This article asserts that the development of a West Papuan city’s infrastructure has occurred through an ongoing series of dispossession affecting Indigenous Papuans. These acts of dispossession manifest through various subtle, intimate, and familial channels. Consequently, those engaged in the construction of infrastructure encompass both low-wage settler workers seeking to salvage from a beleaguered […]

Abstract: This document outlines how the Israeli occupation army and authorities are using “settler grazing” as a means of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. By allocating land for grazing to settlers, they aim to displace Palestinian communities, restrict their access to essential resources, and ultimately annex Palestinian land into Israeli settlements. These actions violate […]

Abstract: This commentary contends with the broader settler colonial structures through which the second Donald Trump presidency may proceed. Through a historical and contemporaneous engagement with broader concepts such as settler colonialism and the ‘frontier’, this piece grapples with how Indigenous nations can ensure their continued vitality through this political moment.