Abstract: In this note, I will first introduce the Space Race, its lasting impact, and the implications it places on our understanding of property law. I will then discuss common law colonial legal doctrines and their potential impact on space property law. I will also analyze the development of international treaties and agreements in the […]

Excerpt: A political approach informed by the settler-colonial analytic has in recent years become influential within left and radical activist circles in countries such as Australia, some years after it rose to prominence in the academy. More recently, it has spilled beyond the academy and attracted more mainstream attention in the wake of the violent […]

Abstract: Evidence of resistance using occupation exists in the occupational science literature. However, the experiences of the communities who resist can be further explored to extend understandings of decolonial efforts and reasons for doing so. This qualitative study examined the concept and practice of resistance by centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of […]

Abstract: This article examines the travelogues of two late eighteenth-century British travellers: Patrick Campbell and Isaac Weld. Travel writing was a pursuit intimately tied to promoting empire, and by endorsing Upper Canada as an attractive destination for British settlers, both travellers encouraged the dispossession of Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. As tourists, Campbell and Weld were […]

Excerpt: In her 1986 review of Louise Erdrich’s second novel, The Beet Queen (1986), Leslie Marmon Silko seems to praise Erdrich’s “dazzling and sleek” prose only to criticize what she reads as a postmodern aesthetic ideology that prioritizes language “without the tiresome interference of any historical, political or cultural connections the words may have had in the […]

Description: In early America, interracial homicide—whites killing Native Americans, Native Americans killing whites—might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian […]

Excerpt: This article engages with this critique, outlines a protracted tradition of Marxian, Marxist and communist reflection on settler colonialism, notes that analyses of settler colonialism and class are not mutually exclusive, and argues that settler-colonial studies is ‘indigenous’ to Marxism and socialist traditions.

Abstract: Western universities continue to produce ethnic inequities in educational outcomes within settler colonial contexts. Juxtaposed are Indigenous and tribal universities, producing thousands of graduates despite a challenging environment. This conceptual paper critically examines teaching practices to encourage reflection and action from white and/or racialised teachers. Drawing on the lived experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous […]

Abstract: Mainstream media in countries like Australia often perpetuate dominant narratives rooted in settler-coloniser culture, legitimising existing power dynamics and reinforcing inequities. However, in recent decades as the media landscape has fragmented, control over the dominant narrative has loosened and independent podcasters have emerged as powerful agents of narrative change. Narrative change is an emerging […]