Excerpt: This paper examines Jen Ferguson’s YA novel The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022), arguing that it exposes the ongoing colonial violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada while articulating a framework of Indigenous-led radical resurgence that critically engages with the settler society. Narrated by Lou, a Métis adolescent in contemporary Alberta, the novel foregrounds […]

Abstract: This paper argues that North America’s emerging digital economies are materially and politically grounded in ongoing regimes of settler-colonial extraction. While scholarship on “digital colonialism” has illuminated new forms of data appropriation, corporate concentration, epistemic domination, and frontier discourse, it has often underemphasized the extent to which digital infrastructures remain tethered to fossil capitalism […]

Abstract: For generations, prison population rates in colonial carceral systems have reported breathtakingly high levels of Indigenous incarceration. While Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States of America (CANZUS) are most often cited in this regard, Indigenous hyperincarceration manifests in colonial carceral jurisdictions across the globe. Positioning Indigenous incarceration as an integral part […]

Excerpt: The following essay examines the term colony in relation to insect communities. It uses a combination of interdisciplinary critique and personal reflection to track the term across reference texts, entomology articles, popular science books, and humanities research. In doing so, it considers how the word colony circulates in and outside of academic settings as a vague synonym for community but […]

Abstract: We problematise the concepts of ‘infrastructure’ and ‘sabotage’ using a decolonial lens based on insights from recent acts of political resistance in Aotearoa.1 By tracing three case studies we ask: what is the infrastructure? Who is the saboteur? And how do temporalities inform these questions? We hold infrastructure as a contested concept in settler-colonial […]

Abstract: This paper excavates the spatial politics of Moroccan settler colonialism in Western Sahara between 1975 and 2010. Taking the 2010 Gdeim Izik protest, as a starting point, the paper maps Morocco’s spatial strategies of conquest in Laâyoune and Western Sahara. The Moroccan government refashioned Western Sahara as part of ‘Greater Morocco’ to be pursued […]

Abstract: This paper explores the origins and early years of the Flying Doctors of Australia and what I call counter circuits or infrastructures of settler-colonial-evacuative mobilities—an important but overlooked modality of settler-colonial mobility and infrastructural development. While drawing an important distinction between the service today and its origins, I argue that the service’s early provision […]

Abstract: The paper portrays the positioning of Bengali settlers within the development dynamics of the Chittagong HillTracts (CHT). The development ventures counteract several contested questions, such as land disputes, concerns relatedto the resettlement of Bengalis, the economic and political challenges facing ethnic minorities, the biased access to tradeand tourism, and the unfriendly sociocultural relations. Besides, […]

Abstract: One in 1800 Indigenous men in the United States will die from fatal police violence if current rates hold. We find that this risk is overwhelmingly concentrated in and around reservations, where structural disinvestment and unique policing models appear to put Indigenous peoples in harm’s way. We also show that the types of officers […]

Abstract: Morocco sustains a rich diversity of cultures, languages, and livelihoods. Like in other countries, the social organization of the rural populations is closely linked to their historical relationship to land and to their immediate biophysical environment, as well as to centuries-old and ever-evolving demographic, legal, cultural, economic, and political transformations. In this chapter, we […]