Abstract: This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department’s use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm. I examine how the language […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the history of graverobbing in the United States and influence of Race Science on the demand for Indigenous specimens. The original contribution of this research to the historiography modernizes language to redefine graverobbing as posthumous violence in an international necro – economy of trafficking Native cadavers. Through necro – capitalism white […]

Abstract: The present article examines comparisons made by Zionists between the Zionist colonization of Palestine and other cases of settler colonialism before 1948. Four main findings emerge from these comparisons: one, Zionist intellectuals often used comparison as a way to develop theories of colonization or to make sense of their relationship with Britain and the […]

Description: How the rhetoric of monogamy was weaponized against Indigenous and queer lives by colonial powers in the nineteenth century. While marital monogamy is often posited as inevitable and essential, it was in fact a negotiated practice inflicted onto occupied lands to enforce social control and white settler reproduction. Conjugal States makes an ambitious and […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, the United States, and Aotearoa New Zealand experience persistent and preventable health inequities driven by colonisation, systemic power imbalances, and the imposition of Western biomedical frameworks that fail to reflect Indigenous understandings of health. A systematic literature review was conducted using the PRISMA-2020 protocols, identifying 644 records in Scopus […]

Abstract: Food systems, in terms of the processes, structures, and relationships that bring food to our plates, are deeply embedded in historical and ongoing processes of colonialism. In settler colonial countries, this reality is contributing to growing attention to and engagement with Indigenous peoples and communities in food systems scholarship and practice. This paper asks: […]

Abstract: This investigation examines how settler colonialism obscures Indigeneity behind the settler Indian caricature. Making Indigenous presence visible, legible, and accessible within the settler colonial landscape of South Florida when attributed within settler colonial Indian representations around tourism. To analyse how settler colonial structures create these Indian representations, this thesis explores the ancestral land of […]

Abstract: Much research on the urban racial politics of redistricting focus on the period of the “redistricting revolution” after 1965. This study takes a more historical approach to this topic by asking: how have select communities within cities managed to avoid ever being redistricted from their founding in the 19th century to the present? Using […]

Abstract: The British and the Aotearoa New Zealand governments in the mid-1880s proposed a trial colonisation of Scottish Hebridean crofter fishing families in the southernmost Otago province. These settlers were envisioned as more than mere labour; they were intended to develop a nascent export fishing industry while rehabilitating themselves from a perceived state of poverty […]

Abstract: This article introduces ‘mobile settler colonialism’ to challenge historiographical frameworks that equate colonial progress with settlement and permanence. Examining itinerant workers in colonial Australia (1850–1914), it demonstrates that mobile labour – including Chinese hawkers, Afghan camel drivers, Indian merchants, shearers, and railway navvies – was foundational to colonial capitalism. During the 1880s wool boom, […]