Abstract: In this dissertation, I provide a place-based examination of settler fire management in the Boreal Forest region of what is lately known as the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In Chapter 1, I start with a historical examination of settler colonialism in the kistapinānihk, or Prince Albert, region of the province, which is my home […]

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Abstract: The current Special Issue focuses on the Indigenous and Native American perspectives on mental health and well-being. This introduction highlights the need to explore how psychological health is conceptualized and operationalized among this population and the ways in which their mental health needs can be better met. The article also provides a brief review […]

Abstract: This thesis presents a critical textual analysis of what I call the reconciliation change narrative in the Canadian settler philanthropy sector, as expressed across an archive of 156 texts produced from 2008-2022 by four philanthropic organizations and their members: one Indigenous-led intermediary (the Circle); three settler-led philanthropic intermediaries (Imagine Canada, Community Foundations Canada [CFC], […]

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Abstract: This chapter considers how the most well-known hemispheric literary networks of the nineteenth century refract the Americas’ shared histories of settler colonialism. It does so through a close examination of José Martí’s 1886 “El Terremoto de Charleston” (The Charleston Earthquake)—a chronicle that troubles the boundaries of nineteenth-century Latin America as Martí would delineate them […]

Abstract: Beyond the issues of Palestine’s partition and the Suez crisis, the Middle East has received little attention within the history of Canadian international relations. And yet, in 1947 and in 1956, Canadian officials undertook fateful actions that shaped this region’s politics. This paper examines Canadian foreign policy toward the Middle East during the 1940s […]

Description: Hungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler colonial perspectives. A critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies,” Dylan Robinson evaluates how decolonial practices of listening emerge from increasing awareness of our listening positionality. This, he argues, involves identifying habits of settler colonial perception […]

Abstract: Since Hamas’s 7th October attacks on southern Israel, the Palestinian population living in the Gaza Strip has been subjected to an unprecedented level of destruction that has decimated every aspect of Palestinian life. The ongoing Israeli military invasion has been considered a ‘plausible case of genocide’, and the humanitarian catastrophe has been compounded by […]

Abstract: This article explores the development of capitalism in Palestine under British colonialism and the Zionist settler colonial project. It examines first, Israel’s internal and external capitalist dynamism, including its treatment of its non-European citizens, namely indigenous Palestinians, and non-Ashkenazi (Arab) Jewish settlers. Second, it explores the state’s interdependent relationship with Western, especially US imperialism. […]