Abstract: This essay traces the genealogy of American tiki culture from the first “Polynesian” restaurant in 1930s Hollywood through the postwar “tiki craze” by examining tiki objects, US and Hawai’i newspapers, and Dole Pineapple Corporation promotional materials through the analytic of settler colonialism. Contrary to popular assertions that tiki has always been innocent fantasy-making rather […]

Abstract: This study explores cross-cultural dialogue between Māori and settler colonials through the lens of Emily Karaka’s paintings. Karaka’s paintings are used to probe and reveal the colonial roots of spatial organization at the site where they are displayed. Building on parallels between the life of Karaka’s paintings and Treaty of Waitangi documents, this study […]

Abstract: This study examines the ideological underpinnings and power dynamics embedded in President Donald Trump’s 2020 “Deal of the Century” speech, with a specific focus on the marginalization of Palestinians through discourse. It also seeks to explore how the speech’s discourse continues to influence current geopolitical realities, reinforcing patterns of dispossession, exclusion, and the normalization […]

Abstract: In this essay, I share an autoethnographic walking experience that is part of my inner work as an early-career sustainability scholar seeking to relate differently with land, people, and knowledge. This research began after I learned about the Exodus: the 1875 forced removal of Yavapai (Yavapé) and Apache (Dilzhę́’é) peoples from their ancestral lands […]

Description: This book provides an account of British setter colonialism across the globe from 1530 to the present day. Centering the impact of settler colonies on indigenous peoples whose land was taken and populations were disrupted, it traces resistance, revolution, migration, assimilation and elimination in North America, Latin America, South Africa, Kenya, Ireland, the Middle East […]

Abstract: Since the time of legal slavery, Missouri has been a site of conflict and geographic uncertainty. The Missouri Compromise (1820) designated Missouri as a slave state, thus aligning it with the American South. During the Civil War, though, Missourians fought on both sides, suggesting a space fully attached to neither the North nor the […]

Abstract: The Anglosphere has been analysed perspectives of political science and IR. It is possible to adopt the perspective of humanistic regional studies, which will allow us to present a new way of explaining the phenomenon of the so-called kin nations among the CANZUK group countries. The article presents a way of starting from the […]

Abstract: This article introduces the Third Space of Indian child welfare to theorize how Indigenous nations simultaneously engage and disrupt settler legal systems while building sovereign, care-based alternatives. Drawing from legal analysis, Indigenous political thought, and sociohistorical synthesis, I trace the historical continuity from boarding schools to today’s foster care removals, showing how child welfare […]

Abstract: The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assumed that the model required no significant modification to be applied in this new context and built local groups and conducted protests in ways that were […]

Abstract: This commentary responds to Van Sant and Fairbairn’s invitation to consider the meanings, potentials, and pitfalls of land access struggles in settler colonial contexts. Drawing on teachings from the field of critical Indigenous studies, I suggest that the developing idea of a right to the rural may be incommensurable with movements for Indigenous sovereignty, […]