Description: For many, the conditions and privileges of citizenship, and the access it provides to equal civil, political and social rights, are taken for granted. Yet citizenship always implies histories of inclusion and exclusion and in settler nations with colonial roots, the history of citizenship is entangled with the legacies of colonisation. Looking beyond its […]

Abstract: In the 1920s the Soviet Union launched the Crimean Jewish Autonomy Project as part of its korenizatsiya (indigenization) policy to integrate minorities into socialism. By promoting Jewish agricultural settlement and granting limited cultural autonomy, the state sought to weaken Zionism and foster a unified Soviet identity. Crimea thus became a testing ground for Soviet […]

Abstract: Recent scholarship in human geography has proposed the framework of geographies of ruralization to describe rural elements that are persistent, resonant, and pervasive amidst urbanization. This concept has primarily emerged through empirical studies in the Global South, where village-based societies have been rapidly transformed by megaregional urbanization. This commentary brings ruralization into the context of the […]

Abstract: This thesis investigates the German discourse surrounding Palestine. Using a conceptual framework combining ignorance, Orientalism and coloniality of power, it complicates previous research into the topic by unpacking the intricate connections between German Holocaust memory and Germany’s position of power within colonial power dynamics. To capture the ways in which both act together to […]

Abstract: This article analyses the experience of partition in the borderlands of Dromore and Trillick, County Tyrone (1906–1922), through the lens of Veracini’s settler-colonial triangle. Using census data, Irish-language sources, IRA and Cumann na mBan records, and government archives, it shows how republican mobilisation drew on cultural revival to articulate a decolonial, anti-sectarian project, while […]

Excerpt: Settlers routinely imagine empty spaces when they think about what they are doing in the countries they seek to possess. They can only do so by foreclosing Indigenous lifeworlds, and they are typically enthusiastic foreclosers. Liam Midzain-Gobin’s Settler Colonial Sovereignty opens with a reference to Canadian politician Alexander Morris’s 1858–1859 call for a Nova Britannia to be established […]

Excerpt: The so-called “settler dream” referenced here differs from the broader migrant aspiration. It signals a particular fantasy of arrival, rooted in Britain’s colonial hangover. One that has made you believe in the transition from periphery to metropole, not only to work but to belong. Academics like Nandita Sharma and Aihwa Ong have shown how […]

Abstract: This chapter explores what the second-hand market looked like in a setting characterised by a constant scarcity of consumer goods. It focuses on an early modern colonial context: the Hudson Valley in the third quarter of the seventeenth century. This was a period when small settlements fought against the elements, against hostile natives, against […]

Abstract: At the turn of the seventeenth century Swedish Crown officials popularized a violent story describing how men called Birkarlar had long ago conquered the Sámi people and their homeland, Sápmi. Since then, the story has enjoyed widespread popularity in both Sweden and Finland, and it has been retold for a variety of political, academic, […]

Description: This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing on the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked. After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape, former slave owners were paid compensation for the loss of […]