Sara Safransky, ‘Greening the urban frontier: Race, property, and resettlement in Detroit’, Geoforum (Available online 16 August 2014). In 2014, approximately 100,000 lots lie “vacant” in Detroit after decades of industrial decline, white flight, and poverty. Planners and government officials have proposed to repurpose Detroit’s highest vacancy neighborhoods, deemed to have “no market value,” as […]

Darryl Leroux, ‘”A genealogist’s paradise”: France, Québec and the genealogics of race’, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Published online: 14 Aug 2014). Genealogy, or the study of one’s ancestral patri-lineage, has a long and esteemed pedigree in French Canadian and Québécois history. From Cyprien Tanguay’s late-nineteenth-century encyclopedias to René Jetté’s updated versions more than a century later, genealogy […]

Michael Morden, ‘Across the Barricades: Non-Indigenous Mobilization and Settler Colonialism in Canada’, Canadian Political Science Review 8, 1 (2014). Recently, a new body of scholarship on “settler colonialism” has emerged with the goal to analyze the non-Native dimension of Indigenous-settler relations, in Canada and other settler states. This paper will identify two shortcomings of the […]

Oliver Haag, ‘Racializing the social problem: reception of Samson and Delilah in Germany’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (published online 8 August 2014). This article examines elements of German reception of the Aboriginal Australian film Samson and Delilah (2009). There is a discrepancy between the film’s recognition at the Cannes Film Festival and its […]

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society takes as its focus the relationship between law and decolonization. Does the deconstruction of colonial institutions and practices such as law insinuate the eradication of the contemporary state-form as we know it? And if so, what does such a dismantling entail, and how might […]

“It was a strange kind of artificial place,” says Michael Donoghue, author of Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone. His father travelled through the zone during World War Two, and compared it to “a small southern town transplanted into the middle of Central America”. […] English was predominantly […]

Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2014)  is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.  editorial Marcelo Svirsky, ‘The collaborative struggle and the permeability of settler colonialism’. articles Henry Reynolds, ‘Action and anxiety: the long history of settler protest about the nature of Australian colonization’. Simone Bignall, ‘The collaborative struggle for excolonialism’. Jennifer Newman, ‘Radical […]

Richard Broome, ‘Doing Aboriginal history’, Agora 49, 2 (2014).  Aboriginal History emerged as a discipline in the 1970s. What is it? Why should it be done? How has it been done? How should it be done? What are the problems of doing Aboriginal history in various arenas? How might they be surmounted? Where is it going […]

ACLA 2015 Call for Papers: Settler Colonial Literatures in Comparison We are inviting papers for a seminar to be hosted at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2015 Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington on March 26-29. This seminar explores how settler colonial studies contribute to our study of comparative literature, both within and beyond Anglophone settler […]

Amanda Nettelbeck, ‘“On the Side of Law and Order”: Indigenous aides to the mounted police on the settler frontiers of Australia and Canada’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 15, 2 (2014).  The history of colonial policing has received considerable scholarly attention in terms of its function to extend and consolidate the legal jurisdiction of British […]