Abstract: This article gathers texts from missionaries and surveyors from the first phase of European colonisation in Wairarapa, New Zealand, from 1841 to 1853, and critically analyses them as part of a wider corpus of settlers’ writings. Diaries, maps and reports are used to examine colonists’ attitudes toward the environment of the district; based on […]

Abstract: This article considers a curious document – Baker’s Australian County Atlas – which contains carefully illustrated maps of each of the 19 counties in the colony of New South Wales in the mid-1840s. The analysis seeks to bridge the gap between high-level geographical studies of the British invasion of New South Wales and historical analysis of […]

Description: An unflinching examination of the impacts of settler colonialism from first contact to the contemporary nation state. On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples is the first installment in a comprehensive collection investigating settler colonialism as a state mandate, a structuring logic of institutions, and an alibi for violence and death. The book examines […]

Abstract: This article argues that Catholic Irish women who settled in Mexican Texas in the 1830s reshaped gender hierarchies through landownership and legal agency. Unlike their counterparts in Ireland and the United States, these women entered a Spanish-derived civil law system that recognized their right to own, manage, and defend property. Drawing on petitions, land […]

Abstract: Embracing the concept of marginality as a method for recovering histories of home, this book explores communities that have been seen to exist outside of western models of nineteenth- and twentieth-century domesticity, particularly as they were transplanted in – and transformed by – settler, Indigenous, and imperial geographies across the globe. In focusing their […]

Abstract: We are witnessing an urban green turn. Urban greening is frequently proposed as a solution to numerous issues ensuing from this. However, as with other settler societies, urban greening in New Zealand occurs on unceded Indigenous lands. It must contend with the foundational violences upon which its cities are built and be developed as […]

Abstract: In early October 2025, a fragile ceasefire allowed some semblance of education to resume in the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa University, students celebrated becoming the first cohort to graduate since October 2023, a moment of joy amidst devastation. Across Gaza, children returned to learning in buildings with shattered walls, missing desks and chairs, and classrooms still crowded with […]

Abstract: The issue of indigene-settler rivalry was a major source of intractable violent conflict in Plateau State. The conflict pitched the indigenous ethnic groups against the Hausa/Fulani settlers, resulting in wanton destruction of lives and properties and the displacement of residents. While the crisis took on an ethno-religious pattern centred around identity, it resulted in […]

Description: Adopting a broad and transnational Nordic approach, this book highlights the interconnected, transatlantic and reciprocal processes of migration and democracy with Nordic crossings. It illuminates the connections, challenges and the broader democratic context, of transatlantic crossings of various kinds and explores the intertwined practises and experiences of Nordic mass migration and American democracy. By […]

Abstract: In the final chapter of Capital I, Marx interprets the economists’ support for “systematic colonization” as an implicit admission that capitalism cannot be regarded as natural, because it needs violent state intervention. The system of colonisation devised by E. G. Wakefield consisted, indeed, in preventing new settlers arriving in the colonies from freely acquiring […]