Abstract: This chapter critically speculates on landscape collectives in Aotearoa New Zealand in relation to Māori sovereignty in the context of setter-colonialism. It explores how landscape design, when informed by Māori relations and worldview can shift the whiteness of settler-colonial socio-spatial epistemologies that govern landscape architectural practice. Drawing on material occasions, the chapter discusses how […]

Abstract: As a cultural landscape inhabited by different agricultural cultures over time, the World Heritage listing of Battir recognises its potential to be simultaneously interpreted as both as a biblical landscape, and an historic Palestinian village (without negating other actors and periods). The interpretation of the site’s environmental and aesthetic values have already succeeded in […]

Abstract: This article examines the role of banana plantations in the settler-colonial, capitalist transformation of Mandate-era Palestine. A microcosm of Zionist settlement and Indigenous Palestinian resistance, the cultivation of bananas reveals competing visions of development and national legitimacy, rooted in the cultural politics of ecological and economic nationalism. Framing banana cultivation in Palestine as a […]

Abstract: The Book of Mormon’s portrayal of a great peace that followed the climatic appearance of Jesus Christ in ancient America presents a conundrum. The people of Nephi reportedly became especially “white,” a label that is described simultaneously as not an “ite.” On the one hand, the narrator Mormon represented the “people of Nephi” as “fair and […]

Description: Generations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the social history of Indigenous artists and their experiences as they negotiate such questions as how to […]

Abstract: Emotional political ecology is a subfield that unpacks the ways power is negotiated via emotions in struggles around the environment. Although scholars have influentially outlined critical “dimensions” of emotion in environmental conflict, they pointedly leave their framework open to further theorization. This article thus proposes greater attention to the forces (i.e., stressors) that propel […]

Excerpt: The “civilian Population” addressed by the fundraisers, meaning the European settler population, was in an even shakier position as these threats intensified. The number of European colonists in Algeria had grown from a few thousand in the early 1830s to 44,500 by the end of 1842. But they continued to fall short of colonization advocates’ […]

Abstract: Following treaties in Saugeen Ojibwe Nation Territory (the Bruce Peninsula, 1854), the North Shore of Lake Huron (1859), and Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island, 1862), the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) controlled land sales and the conditions for white settlement. The DIA sold land to fulfill treaty obligations, administering new capital funds that generated annuity payments for […]

Abstract: In 1937 administrators in Australia pronounced the fate of Aboriginal Australians as their eventual elimination, either through biological absorption or natural death. Historians have discussed this moment primarily through the prism of genocide. In this article I widen the interpretive lens to compare it to the contemporaneous resolution to eliminate Indigenous peoples from Palestine […]

Abstract: Torus spatiality offers a unique form of geographic resistance to the asymmetrical power dynamics of settler colonialism that remains sensitive to the infinite complexity of spacio-temporal relationships in fiction and in reality. In this essay I argue for the torus as a literary artistic chronotope that disrupts the domination/resistance binary in which resistance must […]