Abstract: During the nineteenth century an intense exploitation of natural resources such as wood and timber in what was considered “marginal” or remote regions started, and was driven by an ever-increasing demand in industrialized regions. One common denominator for the timber exploitation that opened the global expansion of capitalism beyond the borders of Europe was […]

Abstract: Beads are a medium through which settlers and Indigenous peoples of North America shape the future. Here, we apply the analytic of futurity to examine two case studies of bead making and bead working across archaeology and cultural anthropology. Johnson examines The Mint at Pascack, a fictionalized account of the Campbell Wampum Factory. The Campbell […]

Abstract: The present research paper focuses on the ways in which the portrayal of settler colonization through the subtle and devastating means is discussed in the novel Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2020). The focus is on the numerous strategies employed by settler colonial states in an attempt to dominate indigenous populations, such as displacement, cultural […]

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Abstract: This paper considers two Indigenous-oriented approaches in contemporary archaeology that seek to increase archaeology’s epistemological breadth: collaborative Indigenous archaeology and the ontological turn. One more practical, the other more theoretical, these approaches are rarely considered together. Each seeks to build new connections between archaeology and Indigenous peoples, politics, and/or perspectives. These connections increase focus […]

Abstract: By exploring the three themes of settler colonialism, securitization, and genocide, I analyze the ongoing Israeli genocidal assault on Gaza through a multidisciplinary theoretical lens whereby I essentially argue that the genocide Israel is perpetuating was always intentional in that it stems from the logic of elimination which is inherent within the settler colonial […]

Abstract: My thesis examines identity and architecture through my lens as an aspiring Canadian architect who uncovers my ancestral history of colonization as original settlers in Gespe’gewa’gi in 1785. After discovering my family’s role in colonizing the coast of Mawipoqtapei, I question my own future practice as an architect in the continued colonization of Native […]

Abstract: This paper contextualises Muslim celebrations within a neoliberal understanding of politics and the consequent erasure of Indigenous identity. It traces the overlap of spectacles of Israeli brutality against Palestinians during Ramadan with official Ramadan and Eid celebrations in Australia when the Islamic concept of “ummah” is invoked to mobilise Muslim solidarity with Palestine. Using […]

Abstract: This paper highlights contributions of Indigenous and decolonial scholars to semiology, focusing on how settler colonialism generates systems of meaning that support its establishment, maintenance, and reproduction as well as how intertwined myths contribute to sustain settler colonialism on Turtle Island. These scholars argue that settler colonialism’s longevity requires the naturalization and internalization of […]