Description: Reflections from the lone traveller, for whom a highway was never the intended destination. Walking the Bypass recounts Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in southern Saskatchewan. Through a series of ambitious and unconventional walks, Wilson sets […]

Description: Turning a lens on the dark legacy of colonialism in horror film, from Scream to Halloween and beyond. Horror films, more than any other genre, offer a chilling glimpse—like peering through a creaky attic door—into the brutality of settler colonial violence. While Indigenous peoples continue to struggle against colonization, white settler narratives consistently position […]

Abstract: Many scholars have noted that while Du Bois clearly analyzed, theorized, and critiqued racialized labor exploitation, he did not have a framework for understanding settler colonialism. This paper systematically examines Du Bois’s corpus of works and adds nuance to this claim. The paper argues that Du Bois did, in fact, theorize settler-colonial dynamics as […]

Abstract: Given the pervasive and detrimental effects of colonialism on Indigenous people, Indigenous resistance and resurgence to colonial politics and policies are essential in sustaining Indigenous peoples’ capacity to protect, restore, and celebrate Indigenous knowledge, values, and practices through ancestral connections. Like many Indigenous communities, Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) face structural and systemic oppression through […]

Abstract: This article introduces the special issue dedicated to the ‘displaceability’ of urban citizenship. Centred on Israel/Palestine as a ‘laboratory’ of ‘southeastern’ urban governance under conditions of conflict, settler-colonialism, and neoliberal restructuring, the collection conceptualizes displaceability not simply as forced removal but as a chronic condition of contemporary urban citizenship– one marked by continous mobility, […]

Abstract: In 1954, the US expanded its military presence in South Viet Nam following decolonization from France, claiming to help refugees escape communism. However, Vietnamese people rarely use the term “refugee,” seeing themselves as internally displaced people who never crossed international borders. I examine how the concept of “refugee” functions as a settler colonial technology […]

Excerpt: In mid-nineteenth century Aotearoa New Zealand, settler-colonial literary encounters with the Indigenous ecologies of the archipelago only served to reinforce this Gothic “mechanism of repression and haunting” (Kavka 59). For instance, in 1888, settlerpoet Douglas Sladen described his view on “the oppressiveness of the forest,” concluding that “the forest means ennui – and a […]

Abstract: Croatian immigration to New Zealand dates back to the 1850s. Today, there are well over 100,000 New Zealanders of Croatian descent. The earliest Croatian settlers were almost exclusively from Dalmatia. Over 90% of them came from Makarska and the surrounding area (Podgora, Drašnice, Drvenik, Zaostrog, Živogošće), then from the islands of Korčula, Hvar, Brač […]

Abstract: Building on theorisations examining the colonial positionalities of Asian diasporic communities in settler societies such as Canada, Hawai’i and the U.S., this article investigates the role of Chinese racialisation and discursive positioning vis-à-vis Pākehā and Māori in bolstering, obscuring or otherwise entrenching White supremacy, settler colonisation, and capitalism in Aotearoa. Specifically, I offer a […]

Abstract: This article is a microhistorical examination of a settler medical technology in an Indigenous community: Umonhon leader Joseph La Flesche’s artificial leg, which he wore from the early 1860s until his death in 1888. This case study illustrates how La Flesche’s disability and prosthesis were deeply entangled with Euro-American challenges to Umonhon ways of […]