Abstract: This chapter deals with the complex interaction between Indigenous sovereignty and state sovereignty within the context of settler colonialism in Canada. The author examines how European concepts of sovereignty have shaped and constrained Indigenous authority, with the Canadian legal system often seeking to limit the sovereignty of Indigenous nations, despite constitutional recognition of their […]

Excerpt: In Concord, Massachusetts, a few years ago, I attended a two-week summer residency on the topic of Thoreau and social reform in the American Renaissance. On the final day, we discussed “Native American Rights in Antebellum America.” At the very start of the event, one of the event’s panelists, Linda Coombs, an historian and […]

Abstract: This chapter discusses how, in their refusal to become pathological objects, Palestinians transform into foremost symptomatologists and physicians of not only settler colonial and capitalist psychosis but also of the world. Breaking from the laws of discourse, they resist and isolate the capitalist machine and its fascist, paranoid desire from the world. The text […]

Abstract: This paper examines the complex nature of indigeneity in Vietnam within a broader settler colonial framework. While Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups are officially recognized as minorities, the inhabitants of the Central Highlands—including the Co Tu, Jarai, Ede, and Cham peoples— are specifically identified here as Indigenous, owing to their status as original inhabitants of […]

Abstract: Olive trees, emblematic of Palestinian identity, resilience, and sustenance, occupy a central yet precarious role in the ongoing colonization of Palestine by Israel. The proposed paper explores the ecological, cultural, and political significance of olive trees in the Zionist settler-colonial project. The destruction of over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees since 1967 reveals a deliberate […]

Abstract: In this chapter, I examine how imperial Japan’s settler colonization of Hokkaido produced a regime of translation that effectively rendered the Indigenous Ainu people a vanishing race. Focusing on Kyosuke Kindaichi, the founder of Ainu linguistic studies, and his relationship with his Ainu assistant, Yukie Chiri, I maintain that the contemporary translation practices of […]

Abstract: This chapter outlines key framing narratives and iterative practices of settler colonialism and its project of erasure and replacement. It uses these frameworks to analyse facets of recent US white supremacist moves including the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally and 2021 Capitol Insurrection along with right-wing representations of American history and their manifestation in […]

Abstract: In this article, we examine intersections of tourism, settler colonialism, and Christianity through a collaborative, unsettling approach. Framed by settler colonial theory and postcolonial theology, and drawing on collective memory work involving Settler-Christian graduate students in Canada, we illuminate how religious travel experiences are constructed in relation to settler colonialism. More specifically, our article […]

Abstract: This dissertation challenges the long-standing historical narrative that the Lipan Apache disappeared in the late nineteenth century. Instead, it argues that the non-reservation Lipan Apache survived through strategic adaptation, mobility, kinship networks, and cultural continuity across the United States-Mexico borderlands. By examining the Lipan experience under Spanish colonial rule, Mexican governance, the Republic of […]

Abstract: This article examines Bill 96 (now Law 14; 2022), a language law enforcing French as the official language of Québec, in relation to language hierarchization and Indigenous dispossession. While this bill impacts all non-French speaking individuals in Québec, it carries especially important implications for the Indigenous Peoples residing on this territory whose languages are […]