Abstract: Palestinians have endured decades of Israeli settler-colonial violence and, since October 2023, genocidal violence in Gaza. This article develops reprocide as a broader analytic framework for understanding the full range of reproductive violence and reproductive destruction enacted within settler-colonial and genocidal projects of elimination. Reprocide encompasses direct and indirect attacks on reproductive capacities, reproductive […]

Abstract: The modern history of incarceration in the United States has often been told as a story about the state exercising carceral control over populations—often, male—deemed “criminal” and confined in brick-and-mortar penal institutions. Yet Indigenous women’s divergent experiences of incarceration expand dominant historiographical renderings of “human caging” and illustrate the longevity of this settler structure, […]

Abstract: This article highlights the history of the Madeiran diaspora in Southern Angola between 18 84 and 1974. More precisely, it seeks to reflect on the historical evolution of the settlement created by settlers from Madeira Island in the Huila Highlands, taking into account economic, social and political aspects, embodied in the formation of a […]

Abstract: With this paper we present an analysis of a group of white settlers almost completely neglected by historiography, the Catalans that migrated to Spanish Guinea (present-day Guinea Ecuatorial). We highlight how in spite of being rarely involved directly in the administration of the territory, Catalans were determinant to its economic evolution. Through a constant […]

Abstract: The Fairfax Resolves, invoking “the Laws of Nature and Nations,” are often portrayed as among the first statements of the colonists’ natural rights. The idea that civil law should be founded on natural law, however, dated back to Cicero and had long been invoked by colonial writers. Yet the Resolves played a pioneering role […]

Excerpt: Lana Del Rey, born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, is an 11-time Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter, known for her melancholic depiction of America across landscapes of Las Vegas, New York and Old Hollywood. Central to her early albums Born to Die (2011), and Paradise (2012) is an exploration of American identity through the lens of longing, loss, […]

Abstract: This paper provides an analysis of Indonesia’s settler colonial project in West Papua, examining its systematic dismantling of Papuan cosmobian societies across eight ontological domains: the physicalmaterial, the biological-organismic, the cultural-mythological, the metaphysical-transcendental, the techno-scientific, the space-time-conscious, the domain of ultimate mystery, and the domain of memory. Grounding its analysis in the Psycho-Cosmocide theoretical […]

Abstract: At its core, this is an article about the “problem of the indio” in a transamerican context of migration, and about accounting for the political role of Indigeneity in contemporary Latinx and Latin American literature. The figure of “the Indian” has been a central concept for national literatures in the so-called Americas since the […]