Description: This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct forms: a settler-colonial type, practiced by the Israeli state, that consists of “lordship” over land and people, and a decolonial type, […]

Abstract: This thesis critically analyses the discourse of the Israeli housing block (“shikun”) through the lens of “whiteness”, employing the Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Drawing on cultural representations of the shikun during two national housing projects, the “Sharon Plan” (1951-1961), and the “Evacuation-Construction” Plan (1998-2022), it examines how do the cultural representations of […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the role of white, colonial women in Canada’s Indian Residential School System in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Though a vital pillar of the schools throughout their history, women have largely been overlooked as key players in the attempted cultural eradication of Indigenous people in Canada. I argue that these women […]

Abstract: Settler-colonial archives have historically functioned as instruments of state power, perpetuating narratives that erase or marginalize Indigenous peoples’ histories, knowledges, and sovereignties. This study investigated the growing phenomenon of contemporary Indigenous artistic interventions within these institutions, framing them as critical acts of “curating dissent” that challenge the archival claim to objective truth. This research […]

Abstract: In 1937 a group of elite Pākehā men from Auckland were caught fishing on Rotoaira, a remote highland lake in which trout fishing was, uniquely, reserved for Ngāti Tūwharetoa. These men used their arrest to have the law reserving the lake for Māori fishers neutralized in court. While by the end of the following […]

Abstract: The article investigates the spatial dimension of the entanglement of settler colonialism and nationalism embedded in the Israeli policy of cultural heritage conservation in Silwan (East Jerusalem) by focusing on the case of the City of David National Park. Attempting to naturalize the Jewish presence in this part of the city, Israel invests in […]

Description: Inspired by trailblazing work in the field, this wide-ranging collection makes an essential and timely intervention through new theoretical contributions that build on decades of critical analysis of the Canadian state as an agent active in capitalist development in a global era. The Canadian State explores the state’s distinctive role in the development of a political […]

Excerpt: After 20 months of calculated and unrelenting horror aimed at the starving and terrorized population of Gaza, the Israeli/US/UK/EU genocide is being ratchetted-up. As we go to press the official casualty count — 60,000 deaths from traumatic injury — is an immense undercount. It excludes the thousands buried under the rubble and deaths resulting from preventable […]

Excerpt: In this paper, I have examined Korean-Latin American remigration as it pertains to settler colonial desire and identity formation. Though Asian American Studies rarely considers Asian-Latin American perspectives, and even less Korean-Latin American perspectives, doing so provides insight into the effects of overlapping imperialism in the Latin American context—specifically, how Japanese colonialism continues to […]

Excerpt: It is surprising to find in the writings of William James (1842–1910) a condescending and stereotypical view of the Native North Americans, which he shared with most of his fellow white Americans at the time. However, James and the Native North Americans did share a holistic view of nature. For example, they abhorred the […]