Abstract: The growth of the field of ethnohistory on Argentina’s southern frontier has revolutionized Argentine historiography, challenging historians to rethink time-worn subjects as they considered Indigenous peoples’ experiences. This article contends that historians should prioritize decolonizing the field through putting Indigenous peoples’ experiences and ways of thinking at the center of their analyses rather than […]

Abstract: This article offers an ideological critique of Slavoj Žižek’s recent interventions on the Gaza genocide, beginning with his October 2023 Project Syndicate article. It argues that by appropriating the post-Oslo liberal-Zionist position he once criticized, Žižek forecloses the real antagonism – necro-imperialist Zionist settler colonialism – and recodes it as a tragedy of mutual victimhood within […]

Abstract: This study looks at recent city council debates over introducing Indigenous seats in Canadian and New Zealand municipalities, asking whether debate is respectful and focused on relevant issues, and agreements are decisive and consequential. Despite very different national contexts and local government systems, overall we find similar arguments across the two countries. And while […]

Abstract: On 14 October 2023, Australians voted down a referendum proposal that would have acknowledged the place of Indigenous Peoples as First Peoples in the Australian Constitution, and which would have provided Indigenous Peoples with a “Voice” to the Australian Parliament. While some commentators chose to label the defeat as proof of Australia’s inherent racism, […]

Abstract: Women and gender nonconforming people living in Saskatchewan, Canada, face staggeringly high rates of gender-based violence (GBV). These rates are disproportionately experienced by Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit or gender-queer individuals, and can be attributed to both historical and ongoing settler colonial practices. This article provides a structural analysis linking GBV against women and […]

Abstract: This paper argues that reading Western settler-colonial apocalyptic narratives—including films, video games, and novels such as The Road, the Fallout series, Children of Men, and Interstellar—through the lens of unfuturability reveals their underlying political function. I distinguish between “apocalypse-as-genre,” the spectacular collapse imagined in these works, and “apocalypse-as-structure,” the slow violence already endured in places such as Sumatra, Kalimantan, […]

Abstract: The Russian Empire’s conquest of Southern Ukraine in the 1780s inaugurated an era characterised by the convergence of internal and external colonisation. This southward expansion granted Russia access to lucrative maritime trade routes and established a fertile agricultural frontier on Ukrainian lands. Contemporary observers likened the colonisation of the Black Sea steppes to overseas […]

Abstract: This paper compares Kant’s cosmopolitan right with the Kantian-rooted cosmopolitan proposals of Seyla Benhabib and Jacques Derrida, assessing their ability to support South American isolated indigenous groups’ claims to reject external intrusion in their lands, as a way of counteracting damaging settler-colonialist dynamics. It argues that despite Kant’s cosmopolitan right, which includes a problematic […]

Abstract: This paper interrogates the complex negotiation of anthropocentrism within the literary imagination of Patrick White. While his oeuvre is celebrated for its profound engagement with the Australian landscape, this analysis argues that White simultaneously employs and subverts the settler-colonial gaze, exposing the inherent violence of an anthropocentric worldview. Through an ecocritical and postcolonial lens, […]