Excerpt: Can the scholarly debate on ancient colonization benefit from a specifically settler-colonial perspective? And could settler colonial studies, even though developed for the early modern and modern world, also gain insights from the ancient classical world? The essays in this volume explore the value of examining settler colonialism as a structural phenomenon and, together, […]

Abstract: The Australian settler government has repeatedly promised indigenous peoples (Anangu) of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park that they will benefit from settler government’s use of their lands as a significant tourism destination, yet the anangu community of Uluru remains one of the poorest communities in Australia. this article utilises historical analysis and qualitative interviews with […]

Abstract: While discussing their community’s relocation, Drummond Island Métis interviewees Lewis Solomon and Jean Baptiste Sylvestre describe how they witnessed British author Anna Jameson steal skulls from an Indigenous grave during her travels in 1837 (The Migration of Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene in 1828 1901). Their testimony provokes a reckoning for Jameson and her […]

Abstract: Since the 1980s, Western academia began to thoroughly contend with anticolonialism and environmentalism, progressively connecting the two movements. At their crossroads, I make four major contributions as a Palestinian activist-scholar. Firstly, I theorize settler colonialism as an operation that is inherently genocidal, outlining ways in which it destroys human and nonhuman lives in my […]

Abstract: In southern Alberta, Canada, during the early twentieth century, fraternal organizations such as the Oddfellows, Moose, Elks, and Eagles employed boxing and wrestling to advance their interests and assist in molding members to demonstrate the discipline and respectability expected of a member. These organizations not only appropriated symbols of the natural world—Elk, Eagle, and […]

Abstract: During the colonial period, Algeria underwent significant economic exploitation, primarily centered around land issues, which became the cornerstone of various colonial settlement and exploitation projects. This exploitation intensified from 1852 to 1870, as colonial authorities sought to acquire the largest possible landholdings to serve their economy and accommodate incoming European settlers. This research paper […]

Description: Knowledge production in the Anglosphere depends on the erasure of non-Western ways of knowing – especially ways of knowing oneself, the lands and waters, and the relationships between these entities. In settler colonial states those in power seldom question this erasure, despite the ongoing presence and power of Indigenous nations. In this groundbreaking work, […]

Abstract: This article offers a critical reassessment of francophone education in Canada through postcolonial and settler colonial theory. Francophone communities have long framed themselves as colonized minorities resisting linguistic and cultural assimilation. However, this identity often obscures their simultaneous participation in settler colonial structures, particularly regarding Indigenous lands and histories. Adopting a comparative, critical narrative […]

Description: Countless Slovaks left Slovakia because life there got too hard. A harsh climate, a lack of freedom, pandemics, crop shortages, and an everyday struggle to earn a living were a daily reality. ​ For hundreds of thousands, the only way out was to leave behind their beloved forests, rivers, and mountains. Carried by their […]

Abstract: Growing demand from the British timber market led loggers to push deep into Algonquin territory in the first half of the nineteenth century, and tens of thousands of agricultural settlers followed suit. While the Algonquin faced unrelenting pressures from the timber industry and agricultural settlement, colonial governments representing the Crown failed to negotiate the […]