Abstract: Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Australia and Canada seeks to reset relationships deeply harmed by generations of legal discrimination and cultural genocide. Prime ministerial apologies in both countries in 2008, alongside sustained Indigenous, civil society, and legal advocacy, appeared to reinvigorate reconciliation efforts. However, progress has since stalled. While existing research has examined various social and […]

Abstract: What-aboutism deflection is not a communication failure. It is colonial technology – an automated institutional defence that activates when First Nations Peoples name specific harm and demand specific accountability. This piece argues that what-aboutism functions as a discursive mechanism with identifiable patterns, a documented history, and measurable consequences: in the 18 months following the […]

Abstract: This article recovers the lived experiences of trafficked Indigenous women in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1878 through 1885, the Argentine Army carried out a series of campaigns in the Pampas and Patagonia, imprisoning and displacing thousands of formerly autonomous Indigenous people. Hundreds of prisoners, mostly women and children, were sent to Buenos Aires […]

Description: The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia’s embrace of the world’s nuclear order. Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia’s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of […]

Excerpt: This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what happens when fat Indigenous bodies are not positioned as problems to be solved, but as sovereign sites of knowledge, memory, resistance, and futurity. Across (un)settler colonial contexts, Indigenous Peoples have been rendered (hyper)(in)visible […]