Excerpt: In July 2025, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced a new plan to forcibly displace, contain, immobilize, and ultimately expel Gaza’s Palestinians. The plan, which followed numerous ethnic cleansing schemes for Gaza from both Israel and the US, proposed that the Israeli army would establish a so-called “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafah, […]

Abstract: Within the global neo-orientalist colonial imagination, contemporary Arab and Muslim societies provide crucial ideological representations for the constitutive otherness of western civilizational politics. So profoundly imbued are negative views of the oriental Arab societies that even their children are inadequate to meet basic standards for innate civilizational virtues to warrant human rights consideration. This […]

Abstract: This research undertakes a comparative analysis of the historical experiences of displacement and resistance encountered by Native American communities in the USA and Palestinian populations in Israel and the occupied territories. Utilizing a qualitative approach, the study explores parallels in displacement, cultural stereotyping, diversity, resistance efforts, historical rhetoric, and the impact on identity. By employing settler […]

Abstract: Regarding technology, “modularity” typically refers to an apparatus’ interchangeability, reproducibility, or transposability, i.e., “plug and play” applications. However, critical scholars contend that modularity is laborious and aspirational, not to be taken for granted. Where promoters of modularity often focus on material dimensions of technology, this article intervenes in these debates by revealing the necessary […]

Description: Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860 and 1900, when each of these colonies gained some degree of self-government, yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire. The book applies the conceptual framework of imperial citizenship to nine case studies […]

Description: This edited volume comprehensively explores narrative survival in Indigenous film and literature, forging a literary and transitional approach to native writing. It navigates the evolution of Indigenous voices, spanning the oral tradition and literary forms from colonial times to the present. It covers a range of issues related to indigenous inequalities and diversities in […]

Description: Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled in Europe, and the divisions between them only grew—until, with […]

Abstract: Numerous scholars have argued that sport is a vessel through which to enforce settler-colonial domination; however, sport can also represent a domain in which to support Indigenous-settler reconciliation. Nevertheless, differing understandings of reconciliation, particularly within diverse global contexts, can lead to ambiguity in its definition and application. Therefore, as part of a broader project […]

Description: German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes. Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, […]

Description: In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control […]