Abstract: This paper aims to critically examine the interplay between environmental degradation, settler-colonialism, and the neo-imperialist biases embedded within our international law institutions due to their Eurocentric origins and interest centers. It seeks to demonstrate how these biases contribute to a system that disproportionately empowers certain nations, particularly the United States and other great powers, […]

Abstract: This study problematizes the intersections of settler colonialism and neoliberalism with heteropatriarchy/heteropaternalism when considering the vast overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the Canadian child welfare system and Indigenous women in prisons. Using the lens of historical institutionalism, we demonstrate how heteropatriarchy and heteropaternalism provide the normative social order for settler colonial governance, including its […]

Abstract: In this chapter, we explore the intricate relationships between young disabled children, their families, institutional settings, and disability services in Canada, with an emphasis on the challenges stemming from unstable custodial dynamics and governmental interference. Drawing on data from a 9-year longitudinal Institutional Ethnography across three provinces and one territory, we analyze the experiences […]

Abstract: The article examines the intersection of Indigenous incarceration and settler colonial genocides in Canada. Topics discussed include the systemic oppression of Indigenous peoples within the criminal justice system, the definition and recognition of genocide within settler colonial contexts, and the role of settler colonial laws and institutions in perpetuating genocidal policies targeting Indigenous communities.

Abstract: This article examines how Han Taiwanese myths and urban legends have been associated with the environment and native fauna in the best-selling popular non-fiction publication Monstrous Taiwan and the hit horror film The Tag-Along. This article also looks at how these works can be considered within the framework of settler colonial studies in East Asia. Both works […]

Description: How Methodist settlers in the American West acted as agents of empire. In the early years of American independence, Methodism emerged as the new republic’s fastest growing religious movement and its largest voluntary association. Following the contours of settler expansion, the Methodist Episcopal Church also quickly became the largest denomination in the early American […]

Description: Time, Tide and History: Eleanor Dark’s Fiction is the first book-length edited collection of scholarly essays to treat the full span of Eleanor Dark’s fiction, advancing a recent revival of critical and scholarly interest in Dark’s writing. This volume not only establishes a new view of Dark’s fiction as a whole, but also reflects on […]

Description: In 1867, Canada was a small country flanking the St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes, but within a few years its claims to sovereignty spanned the continent. With Confederation had come the vaunting ambition to create an empire from sea to sea. How did Canada lay claim to so much land so quickly? Land […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism and active fire exclusion greatly eliminated recurrent fire from forests and grasslands in the United States. Pyrogenic carbon (PyC), a key legacy of fire and a stable form of carbon (C) in soils, has inadvertently been lost with the cessation of biomass burning. Using a simple simulation, we estimate that fire exclusion […]

Call for Papers due June 5, 2024 Erasure and Resistance: Indigenous Architecture and Settler Colonialism Indigenous architecture throughout North America reflects ongoing impacts of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism has led to the erasure or transformation of traditional building practices through alienation from traditional lands, loss of living construction materials such as bison or tules, and disruption […]