Deascription: This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist […]

Abstract: During the 1820s, Colombia’s diplomats in London, Washington and Philadelphia worked hard to obtain diplomatic recognition for their nascent republic. Their efforts were also geared towards making Colombia attractive to European and North American settlers whose industry and work ethic would, they hoped, turn it into a civilised and modern Euro-Atlantic nation. The immigration schemes […]

Excerpt: If you meander through the center of Concord, Massachusetts, perhaps touring the habitations of celebrated local resident Ralph Waldo Emerson or retracing the perambulations of “Walking” enthusiast Henry David Thoreau, you will encounter a sign commemorating the location of an “Indian fishing weir” (figure 1). The weir itself is no longer extant, you are given […]

Abstract: This essay loiters among conversations on self-determination emerging out of Black radical and critical Indigenous intellectual and political traditions, conversations that raise fundamental questions about radical imaginations beyond the settler state, radical imaginations based on practices of survival grounded in relationship to place. My method is a contrapuntal genealogy of histories and ideas about self-determination […]

Abstract: Even as Indigenous authority over land remains under attack through ongoing settler-colonial processes, Native nations continue to pursue their own agendas. Like the negotiations around sovereignty across the globe, the result is a web of interconnected authorities. Native nations, US counties and states, the federal government, and various corporations constantly deploy creative tactics, calculated disruptions, […]

Abstract: Garrett W. Nichols calls for a rethinking of the classroom as space for disrupting heteronormative discourses—discourses that Nichols links to settler colonialism—to open a space where we can hear, or sometimes re-hear, queer voices. Settler colonialism is a heteronormative project that relies on rhetorics of reproductive “inheritance” to naturalize the erasure of indigenous cultures. Pedagogies […]

Abstract: Biocultura is an anticolonial theory, praxis and pedagogical framework that brings settler colonialism ‘home’ through the interrogation of biocultural Humxn relationships to Nature – Self, Land, and one another – as Living. EuroWestern Lifeviews (biology, science, philosophy, and politics) that produce colonial biopower are imposed in schooling and society at large, making the biological-cultural complex […]

Abstract: This article examines the co-constitutive relationship between ideology and geography in three editions of the educational computer game The Oregon Trail, arguing that the game reinforces a colonialist worldview through representations of place, space, and time. Despite seeming to accommodate players of any race or gender, The Oregon Trail imagines its protagonist—the “you” traveling the […]

Abstract: This chapter examines the relationship between Guy Debord’s notion of spectacle and settler colonialism, exploring the role that spectacle plays in the solidification of the settler state and the consolidation of whiteness. In so doing, it examines contemporary depictions of Native peoples in the mainstream media, with a particular focus on coverage of Indigenous peoples […]

Abstract: We present an analysis of Tlingipino Bingo, which is the latest iteration of our on-going experiment to work with performance as a means of translating and transforming scholarly work to generate more informed and nuanced public debate about migrant labour. Tlingipino Bingo was a collaboration between white settler academics and Filipino and Tlingit artists in […]