Abstract: Indentured servitude was a constitutive factor in the development of colonial America and helped shape patterns of immigration, labor relationships, citizenship, and the economy of the colonies. During the 16th through the 18th centuries, about 320,000 indentured servants, primarily from England but also from Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the […]

Abstrat: In the late nineteenth century, the Chosŏn state, which ruled the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910, moved settlers, animals and crops to the isolated oceanic island (do) of Ullŭng, displacing or killing the indigenous people, animals and possibly plant species living there. Having first sent observers to investigate Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido, […]

Description: Wheat is a cultivar with agency in world history. Gluten as well as other nutritional and agronomic virtues commended early wheats to humankind. Out of its Neolithic origins, wheat achieved a unity with human agriculturalists; was disseminated across Europe, Asia, and North Africa; spread globally as a participant in settler colonialism; established identifiable wheat […]

Description: This volume provides a rigorous philosophical investigation of the rationales, challenges, and promises of the coming Space Age. Over the past decade, space exploration has made significant and accelerating progress, and its potential has attracted growing attention from science, states, businesses, innovators, as well as the media and society more generally. Yet philosophical theorizing […]

Abstract: This essay proposes a novel paradigm for a political theory of climate justice: wages for earthwork. Indigenous peoples have disproportionately contributed to the sustainable stewardship of the natural world through ecological systems of governance, which I theorize as “earthwork.” Proponents of climate reparations have focused on reparations for unequal climate damages from emissions. By […]

Abstract: In Australian postcolonial literature, representations of the nonhuman animal are often entangled with past, present, and potential future understandings of Australian settler-colonial belonging. Drawing from multispecies studies and scholarship on Australian postcolonial literature, this chapter discusses how the representation of the nonhuman animal in two works of what I define as “Australian speculative ecofiction” […]

Abstract: Indigenous Australians and Palestinians experience some of the highest rates of incarceration and state violence in the world. In this article’s first section we focus comparatively on administrative detention and other forms of incarceration to underline a commonality of oppression that is both historical and contemporary. We examine settler colonial structures of domination and […]

Abstract: On the evening of January 1, 1776, Peeyankihšiaki (Piankashaw people) gathered in the village of Vincennes (in present-day Indiana), several miles above the confluence of the Embarras River and Waapaahšiki Siipiiwi (Wabash River). They came to celebrate the coming of a new year with the Francophone residents of Vincennes. On behalf of the British […]

Abstract: Based on a case study in the Mayangna territory of Awas Tingni, this article explores current conflicts over lands, resources and identity in the Northern Caribbean region in Nicaragua. Through ethnographic excerpts and analysis of interviews and observations, the study demonstrates that judicialization and land titling has not brought security and stability for rights […]

Abstract: The historiography of Norwegian migration to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries had, until recently, largely ignored its impact on indigenous people. Taking as a point of departure the presentations of migration to America in Norwegian lower and upper secondary school textbooks in social studies and history, this article demonstrates that […]