Description: Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through the lens of settler-colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler-colonial, decolonial and Indigenous studies, the book traces how European sovereignty was shaped through settler-colonial practices that proved catastrophic for Indigenous worlds and helped generate today’s climate crisis. It argues that India draws on these same […]

Abstract: This chapter examines David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s crime novel Winter Counts (2020) through the lens of spatial theory and postcolonial critique, continuing the exploration of the relationship between place, belonging, and identity in the postcolonial context. The analysis explores how spatial dynamics shape both the novel’s crime narrative and its commentary on settler colonialism […]

Excerpt: Read together or alone, these three valuable contributions to nineteenth-century studies provide us with insights into how Victorian journalism in particular influenced imperial narratives and shaped public opinion on war, race, and empire. Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863–1901 examines Australian colonist conflicts in New Zealand (1863–64), the […]

Abstract: Indigenous-settler reconciliation in Australia and Canada seeks to reset relationships deeply harmed by generations of legal discrimination and cultural genocide. Prime ministerial apologies in both countries in 2008, alongside sustained Indigenous, civil society, and legal advocacy, appeared to reinvigorate reconciliation efforts. However, progress has since stalled. While existing research has examined various social and […]

Abstract: What-aboutism deflection is not a communication failure. It is colonial technology – an automated institutional defence that activates when First Nations Peoples name specific harm and demand specific accountability. This piece argues that what-aboutism functions as a discursive mechanism with identifiable patterns, a documented history, and measurable consequences: in the 18 months following the […]

Abstract: This article recovers the lived experiences of trafficked Indigenous women in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1878 through 1885, the Argentine Army carried out a series of campaigns in the Pampas and Patagonia, imprisoning and displacing thousands of formerly autonomous Indigenous people. Hundreds of prisoners, mostly women and children, were sent to Buenos Aires […]

Description: The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia’s embrace of the world’s nuclear order. Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia’s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of […]

Excerpt: This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what happens when fat Indigenous bodies are not positioned as problems to be solved, but as sovereign sites of knowledge, memory, resistance, and futurity. Across (un)settler colonial contexts, Indigenous Peoples have been rendered (hyper)(in)visible […]

Abstract: This thesis reorients settler colonial studies towards an understanding of humanitarianism’s role in the constitution of the settler subject. Grounded in the case of Palestine/Israel, the settler colonial modality of humanitarianism that I illustrate is two-fold: enabling the continuous establishment of the settler society; and providing a tool for the dispossession of Palestinians. To […]

Description: In 1924 Norman Leys shocked liberals by revealing the truth about settler colonialism in a best-selling book called, simply, Kenya. He showed that settler colonialism had nothing to do with a ‘civilising mission’ but meant the ruthless exploitation of African forced labour. In 1910 he had exposed the duplicity of the Governor of Kenya in […]