« Settler genocide is contagious! Ge Tang, ‘Contagious Racial Antipathy: Negotiating Indigenous Genocide Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873)’, in Nina Engelhardt, Anja Hartl (eds), Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Book, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 201-219
Healing on-Country: Jacob Prehn, Douglas Ezzy, ‘Our Way on Country: Cultural Determinants of Health, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Men’s Wellbeing’, AlterNative, 2026 »

Settlers against dinosaurs (of course): Scott Magelssen, ‘Dinosaur Encounters: Settler Colonialism and Planetary Time in South Dakota’s Black Hills’, in Bryan W. Schmidt, Weston Twardowski (eds), Staging Visitation Book Subtitle: Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places, University of Michigan Press, 2026, pp. 216-234

10Aug26

Excerpt: Time is out of joint in the opening moments of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park, his blockbuster adaptation of Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel. After the movie’s title appears in its now iconic primitivist, African- safari- inspired lettering, the audience is immersed into an exotic and threatening locale in which state- of- the- art technology is pitted against the violent forces of nature. As the scene unfolds, tropical foliage rustles and electric cattle prods flash like lightning in the thickening mist as a crew of local workers attempts to transfer a dangerous dinosaur from its holding pen into its paddock. Primal growls share the soundscape with the ominous minor key notes of John Williams’s score as the workers display fear and apprehension in the face of their unnatural task. A white game warden oversees the operation, looking like a colonial expedition leader in his khaki hunting vest and Australian bush hat. The animal transfer, of course, goes awry. The technology fails to keep the untamed dinosaur in check. The beast (mostly unseen except for a shot of a menacing reptilian eye through an aperture in the holding pen) violently kills a nameless Black worker before the crew can regain control, despite the game warden’s noble attempts to save him.


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