Abstract: This article provides a critical analysis of the mechanisms and consequences of Russian colonial policy in the last decades of the imperial era, with a particular focus on the land reforms initiated after Stolypin’s agrarian transformation of 1906 and their impact on the demographic landscape of the colonized territories, especially in Central Asia. The […]

Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of reconciliation in the context of settler states (e.g. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, etc.). It takes the position that reconciliation is necessary in these states because they are the products of a particular form of historic injustice (i.e. settler state colonialism), which continues to poison the […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines how industrialized agriculture in the California Borderlands enacts and sustains settler colonialism through the entanglements of technology, race, and gender. Focusing on Ejido Eréndira in Baja California Norte, I analyze how agricultural technologies are not neutral tools but are coproduced with settler colonial structures that erase Indigenous presence and reshape the […]

Abstract: A boundary spanner is a person who breaks down the barriers or ‘boundaries’ between specific groups of society. To do this, they use their innate qualities and skills developed through experience to conceptualise a method which facilitates meaningful relationships between the two groups. The aim of this perspective piece was to help Western academy […]

Abstract: This paper critically analyses the history and culture of dairy production in Aotearoa New Zealand through a historical-materialist approach. It is argued that the violence of settler colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand is pervasive and multifaceted. In historicizing the production and ideological maintenance of pastoralism and dairy farming in Aotearoa New Zealand, I argue […]

Abstract: In 1824, the Indigenous Chumash of Missions Santa Inés, Santa Barbara, and La Purísima de Concepción went to war against the settler-colonial system that bonded them to the mission lands and forced labor regime demanded by the Spanish Franciscan missionaries and compelled by Mexican military force in Alta California. The conflict lasted months and […]

Abstract: In this article we examine how Oregon’s highway markers represent settler colonization and White supremacy. The data consist of 141 historical highway markers developed by the Oregon Travel Information Council (OTIC), a state-led tourism and transportation agency. We coded the data set based on the extent to which markers acknowledge White supremacy or settler […]

Abstract: Formed on the practice of colonization, the creation of Canada is based on the immigration of French and English settler colonizers on stolen land. As time went on, immigration expanded to individuals of racialized backgrounds in search of starting a new life or seeking refuge in Canada. When we consider colonial legacies in immigration, […]

Abstract: In 1915, the United States sued the treasurer and sheriff of Dewey County, South Dakota, on behalf of six Lakota men at Cheyenne River Reservation. The suit alleged that Dewey County officials had improperly taxed the Lakota men before illegally seizing property for back payment. The case, US v. John Pearson (1916), became a turning point […]

Description: A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity. In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he wrote of a […]