Abstract: This work explores how Mapuche social memory expands understanding of Indigenous territoriality based on mobility in the southern Andes borderland. Social memory offers historically meaningful and rich insights into understanding Indigenous territorial demands and environmental conflicts rooted in settler colonialism. I underline the importance of examining Mapuche memories through historical routes in the Trankura […]

Abstract: Nuclear strategy has long been formulated through analogies. We focus on one in particular: guns. Early nuclear strategists in the United States used multiple analogical comparisons to make sense of the new, apparently unprecedented technology that confronted them. They compared nuclear deterrence to gun dueling and the nuclear revolution itself to the rise of […]

Abstract: The figure of the “Indian” upholds and perpetuates U.S. settler colonialism in ways not confined within U.S. borders. Instead, fascination with “Indians” has been a global phenomenon that can help us better understand the movement of settler colonial ideologies. Regarding the specific relationship between the “Indian” and Germany, scholars have argued that the fascination […]

Abstract: While significant scholarly attention has focused on the Israeli state’s efforts to control Palestinian intimate lives, a notable gap remains regarding the legal mechanisms, particularly the fragmented legal systems impacting Palestinian women in marriages involving holders of different identity cards in East Jerusalem and the broader political and ideological objectives of Israeli settler-colonialism. Accordingly, […]

Abstract: The history of South Africa is publicly commemorated as a process of dispossession of people from the land, massacres and cultural and linguistic attempted erasures. This public commemoration hardly recognises intimate geographies of settler colonialism in which Black women’s wombs were subjected to violent reproductive health technologies which had the intention of reducing Black […]

Abstract: Learning to Dwell in the Last Frontier examines the role of female writers in shaping the literary and cultural history of Alaska’s colonial period (1867-1959), arguing that their works played a crucial but largely unacknowledged role in constructing and contesting the dominant frontier mythology. While Alaska has long been framed through hyper-masculine narratives of […]

Abstract: The recognition and advancement of Indigenous rights is often posed as a threat to democracy. In this article, we counter this idea to argue that the expansion of Indigenous rights does not in fact undermine democracy; rather, it offers an opportunity to reclaim democracy by establishing a more inclusive and pluralistic governance and society. […]

Abstract: California’s former Fort Ord Army Base is located on the unceded Indigenous territory of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation. After seven decades as a training ground for foreign wars, the decommissioning of the base triggered an economic, demographic, and cultural crisis for greater Monterey. The solution to this crisis, the Fort Ord Base Reuse […]

Abstract: In both the United States and Canada, the taxation of Indigenous people is often viewed as an innocent tool for financing government operations. In the settler colonial context, however, taxation is not strictly a tool for financing the government – it is a powerful instrument for racial domination and forced assimilation of Indigenous people. […]

Abstract: Scholars have questioned the analytic utility of gentrification theories when applied to declining Rust Belt cities. In these contexts, scholars suggest the state may play a more significant role in instigating gentrification. This article builds on recent scholarship at the intersection of colonialism, race, and urban studies to examine eight regulatory changes aimed at […]