Description: Before wartime removal and incarceration, most West Coast Japanese Americans, including immigrant Issei and US-born Nisei generations, resided in rural agricultural areas. Existing histories of Japanese America have often overlooked this farming aspect of their experience, focusing instead on urban narratives. Centered on the town of Walnut Grove, the “downriver” (kawashimo) settlement was home […]

Abstract: ‘Finding potentialities’ has become a central obsession in colonial and state-driven efforts to identify latent value in land and life forms. It functions as a primary mechanism through which multispecies colonialism operates in Papua’s wetlands. Drawing on Dutch colonial reports and the early work of Indonesian agrarian reform scholar Gunawan Wiradi, this analysis traces […]

Abstract: We analyse statements by US President Trump issued since returning to the White House in early 2025 and focus on pronouncements concerning three particular sites: South Africa, Gaza and Greenland. A coordinated array of specifically settler colonial imaginings emerges: South Africa is a site of past settler struggle–a spectre, it must be punished and […]

Abstract: This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can regulate epistemic boundaries, discipline knowledge production, and shape the subjectivities of colonized students. In this context, the paper explores how colonized students enact individual and collective forms of […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is a theory, policy, and practice in which settlers create new political orders on lands dispossessed from Indigenous peoples. Typically, an empire seeks to remove Indigenous inhabitants and replace them with settlers from the metropole in order to generate revenues from land sales, bolster sovereignty claims through occupation of territory, and, eventually, […]

Abstract: Given the diversity of Asian diasporas, these communities hold varied and complex roles in and experiences of US settler colonialism, settler militarism, and racial capitalism. Many Asian diasporas came to this country as removable and excludable “alien” labor or as refugees, each with their own colonial and imperial relationships with Europe, the United States, […]

Abstract: The migration and adaptation of Italian settlers during and after decolonization offer valuable insights into the sociopolitical dynamics of empire’s end and its enduring legacies. Italian settlers navigated diverse trajectories, including repatriation to a war-torn metropole; adaptation to postwar Italy’s socioeconomic challenges; and continued settlement in former colonies such as Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Libya. […]

Description: How Alaska redefined US colonialism through Indigenous resistance and legal innovation. Long treated as the symbolic “last frontier,” Alaska was, in fact, the United States’s first experiment in overseas empire. Settler Imperialism reveals these concepts as fictitious stories promoted by government officials and offers a sweeping history of Alaska Native legal and political struggle […]

Abstract: In the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, more scholars have begun to examine the situation in Gaza in particular from a genocide perspective, like never before. Given this proliferation of scholarship on Gaza/Palestine, this article addresses some of the fundamental issues that should be considered when addressing genocide in Palestine. Although the […]

Abstract: Australian workplaces, particularly the Australian Public Service (APS), reproduce institutional whiteness through the cultural cloning of Indigenous employees. While Indigenous underrepresentation is widely acknowledged, less attention is paid to the regulatory terms under which inclusion operates. Drawing on Philomena Essed’s concept of cultural cloning and Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s theorisation of the “good Indigenous citizen”, this […]