Excerpt: Settler colonialism is a structure that is expanding in a (post-)Terra Nullius era, at a time of ecological recession and geopolitical instability. The Terra Nullius doctrine (meaning “empty land” in Latin and literally translated as “land belonging to no human”) regarded unoccupied territories as land that could be appropriated. The notion of property and the concept of utilitarianism were […]

Abstract: The essay is a provocation from a Palestinian academic of critical accounting, calling on the field to break its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the on-going settler-colonial project in Palestine. It frames the act of Palestinians documenting their own annihilation as a form of a “scream”. This “Palestinian scream” is both a […]

Abstract: This article examines the role of letters to the editor in British newspapers as a medium for settlers in self-governing British colonies to perform imperial citizenship during the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a dataset of 125 letters from 1860–1900, it highlights how settlers used the participatory nature of the British press to navigate the […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is based in the separation of peoples from Lands and from one another, producing ongoing harm to human and more-than-human communities as evidenced in climate collapse, racialized violence, war, and widening social inequities. These conditions are sustained by ideologies of human supremacy—specifically white, male, Christian human supremacy—that deny personhood to most humans […]

Abstract: The author views this dissertation as a curation of knowledges (generational, lived experience, and academic) designed to reveal how Hupač̓asatḥ First Nation has been racialized, one of the foundations of settler-colonialism, by the Canadian state. To view these knowledges and guide the curation of them, the author developed a Critical, Coastal, Community-Based, Consciousness which […]

Abstract: Modern climate change issues can be better understood by examining how humans have interacted with their environments in the past. Norse agricultural practices and interactions with Iceland’s geography, for example, reflect many of the modern practices and mindsets seen today in places like Northwestern Europe and North America. Studying these settlement practices and the […]

Abstract: This paper examines the paradoxical stance of South Dakota politicians who advocate for school choice broadly but oppose Oceti Sakowin charter schools, using frameworks from school choice literature, Indigenous sovereignty in education, and Indigenous pedagogical resurgence theory. It argues that these charter schools should be understood through a social capital lens, viewing them as […]

Abstract: Ho-Chunk leader Hąpoguwįga (Glory of the Morning) led her village in Wisconsin during a pivotal era of Ho-Chunk history. However, narratives crafted by settlers decenter her legacy, working to legitimize settler colonial occupation and identity. These narratives participate in and inspire settler affect—physical and emotional attachment to place identities—and further settler myths of Indigenous […]

Excerpt: Andrew Curley’s Carbon Sovereignty (2023), Rebecca Hall’s Refracted Economies (2022), and Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay’s Plundering the North (2023), all offer distinct and compelling investigations of political economy. Each considers in some detail how Indigenous Peoples respond to, engage with, or plan around the ways in which the market—be it in the form of coal power plants, diamond mines, or […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the role of white women in the settler colonial processes of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Northwest Territories in the nineteenth century. It introduces to the historiography of the Transvaal evidence that the ZAR mimicked the patterns of settler colonization globally. Through an analysis of the Boer trek period, […]