Abstract: This chapter analyses how regional air travel in Australia shapes infrastructural imaginaries through the case study of Regional Express (Rex) airlines. The analysis examines how Rex’s branding strategy aligns air connectivity with rural Australian values and settler colonial history despite its financial ties to the Asia-Pacific region. The carrier’s marketing narrative connects contemporary aeromobility […]

Abstract: In the context of a changing climate and an increasing threat of wildfires, interest in First Nations cultural burning has intensified. One response to this has been an increase in private and government funded burning programs involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors. These collaborations can be fraught in that modes of land tenure, government regulations, […]

Abstract: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maps of the Cherokee homelands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains spanning present-day Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, Northwest South Carolina, and Northwestern Georgia documented and facilitated European settler colonialism’s accretion in the region. I argue that from the 1750s until the early nineteenth century, ecological destruction resulting from the invasion of […]

Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the mexicano settlement experience in central New Mexico’s lowerEstancia Valley, where local settlers co-opted the settlement strategies and traditions of three successive political regimes and experienced a net gain in land ownership over the course of the Long 19th Century. It invokes four major themes: settlement, culture, economics, and parentela […]

Abstract: Faced with the impacts of climate change and colonialism, historians have been quick to celebrate Victorian Arts and Crafts designer William Morris as an important early green voice. Morris produced hand-crafted furnishings inspired by the British countryside to induce respect for nature and resist the nefarious consequences of capitalism. Yet celebratory histories of this […]

Excerpt: Indigenous people are here—here in digital space just as ineluctably as they are in all the other “unexpected places” where historian Philip Deloria (2004) suggests we go looking for them. Indigenous people are on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; they are gaming and writing code, podcasting and creating apps; they are building tribal websites that […]

Abstract: This thesis explores how the embodied everyday experience of living in a militarised, settler-colonial context can be understood through exercise practices, and how the effects of living in such a context may be navigated through exercise. It explores this objective through interviews with six Palestinians who exercise and participate in the Right to Movement […]

Abstract: Spas and mineral springs constitute major sectors of the global wellness economy, which now exceeds the size of the global biomedical economy. The industry, media and its critics emphasise ‘wellness’ as both holistic health care and pampering self-care. Wellness culture has been critiqued as neoliberal exploitation, particularly of middle-class, white women. Its spiritual dimensions […]

Abstract: The hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness and the general public in the United States is a puzzle, given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle and sheep losses and has only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry. Thus, the logic of profit-seeking in capitalism, […]

Excerpt: The traditional story of the Adventus Saxonum, or the arrival of the Germanic-speaking populations in Britain, is one of invasion, genocidal violence and conquest. Following the withdrawal of the Roman troops in the fifth century, Germanic tribes washed up on the southern and eastern shores of the island and proceeded to plunder their way […]