Abstract: For tourism to be a force of social good, we must first contend with how tourism can contribute to dominating structures. This research explores settler colonial themes found in authorized heritage discourses in Berea, KY using multivocality as an analytical framework. Critical Discourse Analysis was used to better understand how authorized heritage discourses reinforce […]

Excerpt: Mapping, often perceived as a technical or neutral act, is fundamentally political. It is an act of selection: emphasizing some realities while excluding others, embedding subjective worldviews into seemingly objective forms. Every line drawn, every label inscribed, asserts biases, assumptions, and partialities of its maker. In this sense, mapping is never neutral—it is a […]

Abstract: This chapter studies how journalists from Britain and key white dominions, especially Australia, collected knowledge on the fascist Italian empire’s settler-colonial efforts in the 1930s and in which complex ways they interpreted those efforts; and shows how such information helped shape contemporary political and administrative debates about Britain’s own settler-colonial efforts. In so doing, […]

Abstract: This decolonial, reflective story-sharing paper centers on reclaiming land-based identities as a ceremonial process of healing and resistance within the enduring structures of settler colonialism. Drawing from my lived experiences and guided by story-sharing methodology, it examines the systematic oppressions and reconstruction of identity, land, and spirituality imposed by settler colonial education, immigration, and […]

Abstract: Indigenous movements in Latin America advocate for the collective rights of Indigenous communities to land, territory, and natural resources. This article shows how the production and mobilization of Indigenous genocide memory during the 2010s revealed the limits of Indigenous land rights advocacy in El Salvador. Since the late 19th century, settler state authorities have facilitated […]

Abstract: Several scholarly works have opened discourse around the complicity of non-White settlers in continuing the oppression of Indigenous Peoples through their ideological adoption of and material participation in White supremacist neoliberal capitalist structures, structures set in place through settler-colonial possibility (Chen, 2021; Pulido, 2018; Saranillio, 2013; Tuck & Yang, 2012; Upadhyay, 2016). This anti-colonial […]

Abstract: The work of resurgence has been a primary focus of my research for some time as an Anishinaabe health, wellbeing, and physical activity researcher. I have focused on telling many Anishinaabek stories about resurgence through physical activity. But I have yet to tell my own. In my 2020 book, Indigenous feminist gikendaasowin: Decolonization through […]

Description: Rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and during the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed perpetual disaster on New Orleans’ Black and Indigenous communities. Neoliberalism masked by the auspices of repair, progress, and inclusion reinforced the plight of the urban poor while exacerbating the racial and class inequalities that existed before the storm. Cassandra Shepard’s […]

Description: An examination of anticolonial thought and practice across key Indigenous thinkers. Accounts of decolonization routinely neglect Indigenous societies, yet Native communities have made unique contributions to anticolonial thought and activism. Remapping Sovereignty examines how twentieth-century Indigenous activists in North America debated questions of decolonization and self-determination, developing distinctive conceptual approaches that both resonate with and reformulate […]

Abstract: Population displacement is a prominent state-building strategy. Using either force or positive inducements, states sponsor the resettlement of racial, ethnic, or linguistic groups to consolidate territorial control. We evaluate the long-run consequences of large-scale displacement by analyzing a historical episode in Afghanistan: the relocation of Pashtun communities during the rule of Emir Abd alRahman. […]