Abstract: This commentary extends Van Sant and Fairbairn’s right to the rural concept by examining how access claims operate in contested territories through the case of Weli Oya, Sri Lanka. Analysing this Sinhala settlement scheme at the edge of Tamil-claimed territories, I demonstrate how rural access claims transcend agricultural utility to serve territorial control projects and reinforce […]

Abstract: Although the Japanese government gave up its discourse on racial homogeneity to actively promote multiculturalism featuring Ainu cultural heritage, the organizing committee dropped the proposed Ainu performance in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. This paper examines how the politics of (not) recognizing the Ainu assist in the production of the Japanese settler nation […]

Abstract: Indigenous resistance to colonization can intersect uncomfortably and often violently with a fight by workers to access Indigenous lands for extraction and jobs. Jobs have always been a literal frontier of settler colonial conflict because, simply put, colonization takes work. When immigrants began to settle through recruitment programmes en masse in Canada, they benefitted […]

Description: The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. The long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a dynamic new generation of scholars insisting that any full American history must address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American […]

Description: In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, […]

Abstract: This forum explores the geopolitics of infrastructure in the context of Israel’s war on Gaza, situating the current genocide within longer histories of settler colonialism, spatial control, and transnational complicity. As homes, hospitals, and schools are reduced to rubble, this destruction is not only military, but infrastructural – an assault on the material conditions […]

Abstract: “The Spanish Question: Migration, Identity, and Settler Politics in French Algeria, 1830-1939” examines the place and influence of Spanish immigrants and their French-naturalized descendants (néos) in shaping – and being shaped by – French Algeria’s evolving social, political, and racial order. Focusing on the period from France’s occupation of Algeria in 1830 through the […]

Abstract: This article contributes new knowledge to understanding of the effects of extractivism on literature by examining the relationship between settler colonialism, resource extraction, and the operation of genre. It analyses a suite of Australian novels that harness the generic affordances of crime to address contemporary anxieties about the social, environmental, and political impacts of […]

Abstract: This article looks at the crisis in forgetting and remembering of colonial violence in Australia today. This ‘forgetting’ is one of the factors that led to the Voice referendum resulting in a ‘no’ vote in October 2023. The violence of the colonisation of Australia was actively forgotten by settler society until the 1970s and […]

Abstract: Geographers understand territoriality as the logics of different institutions and actors that work to produce territory as part of a state. However, many geographers of territoriality tend to ignore settler colonial processes and how they may complicate relations to territory. This article contributes to this intervention by investigating specific temporal and environmental dimensions of […]