Abstract: The employment of mules and the networks supplying them to German Southwest Africa (1884–1915, modern-day Namibia) are at the centre of this article. Mules are infertile and difficult to breed yet of use specifically in disease-prone and arid environments. In German Southwest Africa, Germany’s first and only settler colony, colonists depended on them to […]

Abstract: Encouraging a new way for non-Indigenous researchers to think reflexively through their positionality and relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and claims for decolonization in their research, this paper introduces the concept of anti-colonial reflexivity. Anti-colonial reflexivity describes the slow process of looking into our genealogies, not simply to locate the names of ancestors in […]

Abstract: This paper studies the Canadian mineralogical collections sent to the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. These collections were curated by William Logan, the first director of the Geological Survey of Canada, which operated as a leading institution in mineral exploration, colonial expansion, and settler statecraft in Canada. […]

Abstract: In the article “The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point,” Engebretsen and Baker call on researchers to reexamine the ways we employ the rhetoric of decolonization in global health. They critique the “reformist” strand of decolonization which fails to mitigate structural […]

Abstract: The range and diversity of ideas that comprise the conceptual terrain of ontological security (OS) – the security of being – hold much value for understanding political geographies, and how hegemonic and oppressive relationships threaten our collective, multi-species being in the world. Yet, the directed study of (ontological) security has largely been framed through […]

Economist Noah Smith recently addressed the question of Indigenous claims in his Substack newsletter (‘No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups’, 30/11/24; available at: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are-not-on-indigenous-land). Smith is a successful Substack contributor reaching more 286.000 subscribers; his defence of settler colonialism as a mode of domination […]

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Excerpt: Indigenous historians engage with and understand resilience through both an interdisciplinary lens and specific community attitudes toward the concept. Scholars of developmental psychology, psychiatry, social work, and education have drawn on resilience to analyze how Indigenous peoples have dealt with the trauma of colonialism, especially settler colonialism, while maintaining distinct beliefs, practices, and identities. […]

Abstract: This article seeks to explain the growth of identification and support for the Palestinian cause over the last decades from a regional concern to a global movement. What are the mechanisms that made this possible? This problematic is addressed within a cultural sociological framework, focusing on the cultural work of intellectuals and the collective […]

Excerpt: By the 1920s, few places on Earth remained hidden to Western eyes. Yet huge swaths of the Amazonian rainforests in South America continued to challenge Western mapping. Cast as “blank spaces” on European maps and also in the cartography of the nations that contained portions of the Amazonian rainforest, these territories were inhabited by […]