Abstract: This thesis resists the grand narrative of Canadian music history by examining Canadian choral works through a settler colonial theoretical framework. I specifically focus on the politics of translation and the relationship between text and music. I exemplify my methodology in this thesis with a brief discussion of R. Murray Schafer’s Miniwanka: Moments of […]

Abstract: This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick 1807–1845). When Grey became Under- Secretary for the Colonies in his father’s administration in late 1830, he turned his attention to emigration, colonial land administration, and slavery. […]

Abstract: BIPOC survivors of forced sterilizations have been excluded from American social work policy and clinical practice, either marginalized or entirely erased. Despite the field’s role in perpetuating racialized birth control, reconciliation is essential within the social work profession. Using Villarosa’s (2022) article “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America” as a framework, Villarosa confronts […]

Abstract: This article investigates the dynamics between hope and dispossession in the relations between Indigenous peoples and states. These relations, historically marked by colonial interventions, boast hopeful developments ranging from the recognition of rights to truth and reconciliation processes. Drawing on critical hope scholarship and research on contemporary colonialism, this article delves into the question […]

Description: Indigenous Currencies follows dynamic stories of currency as a meaning-making communication technology. Settler economies regard currency as their own invention, casting Indigenous systems of value, exchange, and data stewardship as incompatible with contemporary markets. In this book, Ashley Cordes refutes such claims and describes a long history of Indigenous innovation in currencies, including wampum, dentalium, […]

Description: From the founding of the United States, enduringly consequential debates over Indigeneity and immigration have occurred on the battlefield and in Congress, in courtrooms, at territorial borders, and in mainstream culture. In Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire, Leah Perry traces the ways that the US created its empire through public pedagogies—which […]

Abstract: This doctoral dissertation investigates how Rez Metal artists have challenged and reclaimed dominant historical narratives that promote the erasure of Indigenous Peoples and reinscribe stereotypes of poverty, isolation, desolation, and colonial drawn boundaries of the reservation. This research aims to show how Rez Metal resists settler colonial boundaries of map making through the production […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines how contemporary Asian American literature engages settler colonialism not through direct representation of Indigenous characters or moments of AsianIndigenous encounter, but through formal and narrative strategies that illuminate the structural logics of settler colonialism. While much of Asian American literary scholarship explores settler colonialism through explicit references to or representations of […]

Abstract: Los Angeles is rarely examined as an on-going site of colonialism. This dissertation brings to the fore the ways in which indigenous thought leaders, artists, and activists challenge the colonial present in Los Angeles. Building on settler colonial studies, the colonial present considers the multilayered matrix of colonial legacies including Spanish, Mexican, and that […]

Abstract: How should Jewish settlers live in the new environment? This question preoccupied early Zionist professionals, seeking to employ science in the service of Jewish “acclimatization.” This article focuses on the work of a specific man of science: nutrition scholar Moshe Wilbushewich, who lived and worked in Palestine since 1924 until his death in 1952. […]