Abstract: Forests in the United States have long been and continue to be contested places of culturalidentity. Lumbering and European settlement in the forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin andMichigan radically and violently disrupted Indigenous ecological relationships to theirhomelands. Yet the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin has a developed a world-renowned forestryprogram that supports their self-determination across multiple […]

Abstract: Written in April 2025, this position piece is prompted by a number of recent interventions suggesting that the ongoing Gaza genocide is a consequence of Israeli settler colonialism. That the Israeli onslaught in the besieged Palestinian territory is genocidal is undeniable – a mountain of accumulating evidence supports this conclusion. This paper, however, discusses […]

Abstract: Indigenous identity threats are fostered and reified through a cyclical process wherein sources of threat for Indigenous people are simultaneously strategies non-Indigenous people employ to manage threat. One contemporary threat for Indigenous people is the omission of their existence and experiences from the public consciousness. Omission threatens Indigenous identity by undermining well-being and fostering […]

Abstract: Historically, the modification of the landscape through afforestation has been instrumentalized in the service of the colonization of the territory. In this context, the construction of green areas in Palestine-Israel in the twentieth century can be interpreted as an exercise of strategic territorial control linked to the Zionist project. The planting of forests under […]

Description: How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany’s future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key […]

Description: Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), famous for developing the foundations of geopolitical thought. Ratzel produced a remarkable body of work that revolutionized the study of space, movement, colonization, and war. He also served as a source of intellectual inspiration for national socialism, […]

Abstract: This review article juxtaposes two books, Placental Politics and Moral Figures, whichoffer innovative decolonial, feminist approaches to reproductive politics and embodiedconnections in colonial and contemporary Oceania. They evince an extraordinaryempirical and theoretical sophistication that has developed in scholarship over recentdecades in analysing the racialised and gendered logics of colonialism, in researchingthe embodied relations between […]

Abstract: Currently, pregnant Indigenous Peoples living in remote, rural, and northern Indigenous communities in Canada are subjected to evacuation birth policy, whereby they are evacuated out of their community to large, urban hospitals to give birth. Evacuation for birth is assumed to decrease biomedical risk because people are birthing in hospitals. In Canadian health systems, […]

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Abstract: This article examines the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in Gaza as a continuation of the Zionist settler colonial project. It argues that the massacres and displacement of Palestinians are not aberrations but intrinsic to the continuous Zionist colonization of Palestine over the past 75 years. The […]