Description: This book is a retelling of the history of Liberia’s formation through the lens of settler colonial theory to understand the antagonisms that continue to shape contemporary citizenship debates. It discusses Liberia as representing an interesting puzzle on the distinction between settler colonialism and postcolonialism. While Liberia is often heralded as one of two […]

Abstract: Western leisure studies scholars are beginning to grapple with how leisure practices have emerged through and continue to act as technologies of settler colonialism. In North America, one of the most iconic markers of settler leisure is membership in private sports clubs. Constituted through white wealth, these spaces provide respite for the propertied elite […]

Description: This book provides an account of British settler colonialism across the globe from 1530 to the present day. Centering the impact of settler colonies on indigenous peoples whose land was taken and populations were disrupted, it traces resistance, revolution, migration, assimilation and elimination in North America, Latin America, South Africa, Kenya, Ireland, the Middle […]

Excerpt: The Latter Day Saints from the beginning days of their various denominations have been interested in and involved with the indigenous peoples of North Ameri-ca. Relocation of these peoples by Congress resulted in the transfer of tens of thousands of these native peoples to lands set aside for them west of the Missouri River, […]

Description: The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America’s most important places: the homelands of the Haudenosaunees (also known as the Iroquois Six Nations). Throughout the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries of European colonization the Haudenosaunees remained the dominant power in their homelands and […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples in Peru have experienced significant disparities in health and social well-being due to ongoing settler colonialism. Despite significant progress in maternal and neonatal health, regional disparities persist. In response to these challenges, the *Mamás de la Frontera* (Mothers of the Border) program was developed in collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Peruvian […]

Description: Who has the right to represent Native history? The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuries, non-Native actors have collected, stolen, sequestered, and gained value from Native stories and documents, human remains, and sacred objects. […]

Abstract: This paper explores two competing liberal Zionist discourses which attempt to justify the Zionist project by invoking a unique relationship between settlers and the land. First, we examine how despite its enactment of environmental harm and ecological apartheid, contemporary Zionist discourse frames the Israeli state as a global leader in environmentalism, positing the Zionist […]

Description: This book explores the relationship between climate change, reproductive justice, and the prosperity of families, communities, and economies. Bringing together critical analyses of historical white feminism, classical economics, and corporate success models, it argues that the consequences of climate change render traditional approaches to prosperity ineffective and irrelevant in modern times. Climate change does […]

Abstract: Land education, as both theory and pedagogy, works to unsettle the colonial dynamics that continue to pervade both land relations and learning environments. In this article, I turn to the geographies of Palestine to engage in a critical reading of two prominent landscape types in the region—pine forests and olive groves—with the goal of […]