Abstract: This article examines how international humanitarianism facilitated the expansion of Zionist settler colonization in Palestine throughout the mid-twentieth century. By reading historical materials both along and against the archival grain, the author traces a contentious debate between Zionist settlers and Arab nationalists in a range of international arenas over whether the humanitarian plight of […]

Abstract: Drawing from examples across Canadian postsecondary institutions and school boards since October 2023 Hamas military action against Israel, we discuss how institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) mandates not only failed to address anti-Palestinian racism (APR) but were effectively mobilized against Palestine solidarity actions. We focus on, first, the casting of Palestine solidarity actions […]

Abstract: In the United States, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, at least ninety million acres were granted or reserved by states as a means of funding the establishment of public schooling in the period up until 1930. Yet, for the most part, Indigenous land is missing as an analytic in our histories of public education. […]

Description: This volume brings together emerging scholars in Settler Colonial Studies to chart new directions for the field in a time of global crisis. Through rich case studies and innovative theoretical perspectives, the contributors examine the historical mechanisms and ensuring impacts of settler colonialism. They explore its ideological and economic foundations to its deep entanglement […]

Abstract: Focusing on the built environment of France, this thesis seeks to analyze how the architecture of an empire at home perpetuates colonial ideals throughout a postcolonial landscape. This paper argues that the trauma of decolonization and the resulting response created a contested historical record, leading to the contemporary landscape of the postimperial French Métropole. […]

Abstract: “Battered and Beloved” analyzes how the Law inflicts, facilitates, and justifies legal violence towards international, interracial Chinese American adoptees through its categorization of adoptees as sources of labor, commodities, and possessions. To better understand how the Law inflicts legal violence against international, interracial Chinese American adoptees, “Battered and Beloved” traces the origins and progression […]

Excerpt: The “invasion novel” has always been a persistent and popular sub-genre of Australian fiction. In fact, one of our earliest novels was William Lane’s alarmist, didactic White or Yellow (1888). In this novel, white Australians are enslaved by Asians, after contemporary governments allow a large number of migrant workers into the country.

Abstract: This essay examines the Nakba through the analytical framework of settler colonialism, arguing that the mass displacement and fragmentation of Palestinian society in 1948 constituted not merely a humanitarian consequence of war, but also a structural process of demographic transformation and territorial consolidation. The Nakba may be discussed within broader theories of settler colonialism […]

Abstract: Throughout the history of the United Nations, there has always been tension between its liberal ideas of self-determination and sovereignty, especially during the process of decolonization and changes in its membership, as well as in its response to protracted conflicts and ongoing colonial occupations. As a middle power, Canada has been consistently engaged with […]

Abstract: This article argues that the Middle East’s incomplete state-building is not merely due to cultural or institutional ‘failure’. Instead, it results from an external architecture of hegemony, organised around Israel as an advanced colonial outpost. By combining neo-colonial theory, Agamben’s state of exception, securitisation theory and settler-colonial studies, it develops the concept of ‘deferred […]