Abstract: This research addresses how societies use heritage and the commemoration of past violence to the ruination and domination of Others. It examines cultural memory as integral to the settler-colonial desire for land and logic of elimination, and its findings offer a corrective to scholarship that views memory and destruction as ontologically distinct. They lead […]

Description: Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional […]

Description: This book recounts Puritan struggles for military dominance and for an authoritative interpretation of God’s agency in war. It asks: What did Puritans say was God’s will in warfare; and how did they claim to know? It applies the term ‘military providentialism’ to this attempt to understand God’s will and agency in war; and […]

Description: After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction and the cultural politics of disimagined community in the short century of American superpower, 1945–2001. Between the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which helped to transform the United States into a […]

Description: During the American Revolution and into the early republic, Americans fought with one another over the kinds of political expression and activity that independence legitimized. Liberty poles—tall wooden poles bearing political flags and signs—were a central fixture of the popular debates of the late eighteenth century. Revolutionary patriots had raised liberty poles to symbolize […]

Abstract: Accurate diagnosis is essential for accessing emerging gene-targeted treatments for inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), but many minoritised communities face additional barriers to diagnosis. This scoping review synthesised clinical studies on the prevalence and diagnosis of IRDs among Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Medline, Embase, Global Health, Informit and CINAHL were searched on December 4, 2023. We […]

Abstract: Settler colonial urbanisms and financialisation are two well cultivated areas of thought; however, both have been underutilised to explain the state of housing precarity in contemporary Canada. To address this gap this paper reframes financialisation and assetization through the lens of the settler colonial city and its racialised labour and property regimes. Through analysis […]

Abstract: This article explores the decolonial potential of the Palestinian Liberation Theology (PLT). It does so by examining the PLT’s attempt at establishing a decolonial Indigenous theology in pursuit of inclusive justice and liberation for both the colonised and the coloniser. While PLT offers a compelling spiritual resistance and contextual hermeneutics contesting Western and Zionist […]

Description: This book focuses primarily on American Indians’ experiences with the invading Anglo-Americans from the 19th century to the present. It looks briefly at Canadian experiences for comparison. The author’s collected essays examine the impacts of treaties and policies related to native sovereignty, property, culture, and religion; and review modern protests to protect tribal sacred […]

Abstract: ‘Settler colonial theory is yet another bizarre ploy by Marxists to unfairly discredit and destabilise Western democracies‘.