Abstract: This study aims to examine the reality of French assimilation policy in Algeria—between its purportedly logical justifications and the inherent racism of colonialism. Through this research, we seek to address the main issues related to the attitudes of Muslim Algerians toward France, the extent to which they were influenced by its civilization, and their attachment […]

Abstract: Dorothée Chellier was born in Algiers in 1860 to French settler parents and became the first female French doctor in colonial Algeria, after completing her studies in Paris. As she had in-depth knowledge of the country, she was sent on “medical missions” to various parts of remote Algeria in the 1890s with the express […]

Abstract: This chapter considers the racially motivated mass shooting in El Paso, Texas in 2019 as an expression of “settler ecofascism” – a distinct variant of ecofascism that yokes settler colonial justifications for racial violence to neo-Malthusian concerns about environmental degradation. Analyzing the rationale for murder laid out in the perpetrator’s manifesto, the chapter suggests […]

Abstract: This roundtable documents emerging conversations on Indigenous politics and settler colonialism in Asia. It brings together a diverse group of emerging diasporic/Indigenous scholars from the Cordilleras, Surigao, Okinawa, and the Champa Kingdom to examine contemporary issues in Indigenous politics in Asia and their implications for broader conversations on Asian/American Studies and Global Indigenous Studies. […]

Abstract: A Riverside, California, schoolteacher taught the mnemonic sohchatoa to her high school mathematics class in the fall of 2021. The lesson plan included “playing Indian,” with a headdress, tomahawk chopping, and war whooping. She was previously featured in several yearbooks and the school’s social media accounts wearing her headdress. Although her performance went viral […]

Excerpt: Eiichiro Azuma and Greg Dvorak gift us with two important and richly researched books that deepen our understanding of how settler colonialism operates as a connective mechanism tying Japanese and US imperialisms. My response applies a concept from one study to the other; both questions stem from my interest in Blackness and the African […]

Abstract: Latin American and Caribbean literatures have increasingly turned to speculative genres to confront crises of ecology, race, and identity. Moving beyond the hegemony of magical realism, writers across the region employ Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms to reimagine futures historically denied to marginalized communities. This article situates these currents within the broader speculative turn in […]

Abstract: This article investigates how selected media commentators in Aotearoa New Zealand framed the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB). Drawing on a discourse analysis of opinion pieces in The New Zealand Herald, Stuff and Newstalk ZB, this paper examines the rhetorical and ideological work in selected media commentaries by prominent media professionals in Aotearoa. The analysis identifies three dominant media […]

Abstract: This volume examines migration to Australia through the critical lens of Indigenous sovereignty, arguing for a fundamental rethinking of migration studies within settler colonial contexts. While migration and Indigenous studies have developed largely in parallel, this book challenges that separation by foregrounding the entanglements between migrant arrivals and the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous lands […]

Description: This open access edited collection provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands. Via an assortment of critical reflections from settler colonial Australia, it identifies tensions between colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty as an increasingly salient topic of analysis within migration research. It poses challenges to migration research that takes place on […]