Description: Agents of overseas empires considers overseas colonisation as a process initiated by myriad private, individual and institutional actors, whose relationships with governments varied. Instead of regarding colonisation as a phenomenon orchestrated from a governmental centre on to overseas territories or governed in accordance with the ‘centre–periphery’ model proffered by sociology, this collection demonstrates how […]

Abstract: The critically acclaimed film Minari (2021), directed by Lee Isaac Chung, has been recognized for its emotionally moving on-screen representation of a rural Asian American experience. Building on transpacific scholarship, the present essay examines Minari as a narrative of “minor settler grief,” an expression of grief by minor settlers that is closely tied to colonial and militarized aesthetics […]

Abstract: In Palestine, the eradication of the Indigenous population extends beyond physical displacement and destruction; it entails ecological transformations. Analogous to other settler-colonial contexts, nature is not merely annihilated; rather, it is molded to suit the colonizer’s intentions, resulting in modification. This article examines the eco-resistance by the Indigenous people of Masafer Yatta as an […]

Abstract: Monumental landscapes draw attention to the cultural politics of memory as well as the grammars of white supremacy and colonialism in their creation. In this paper, we extend this conversation, examining the entwined historical legacies of Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore. We highlight how critiques of the memorialization of white conquest can inform thinking […]

Abstract: This editorial critiques the existing literature on decolonizing global health, using the current assault on health in Gaza as a case in point. It argues that the failure to address the ongoing violence and blatant targeting of health facilities, personnel and innocent civilians demonstrates most clearly the limitations of an approach that is strong […]

Abstract: In this article, we first (re)trace the presence and absence of mining, metals and extractionary practices, what we call MMEs, from environmental and sustainability curricular frameworks United Nations’ Act Now Framework. Then, we critique the swelling markets, mentalities, and mastermindings used to develop and produce “clean” and “renewable” energy sources/solutions. As one of many […]

Abstract: It has been over 20 years since Donna R. Gabaccia’s seminal work Italy’s Many Diasporas was published (London & New York, 2000), an overview of the social, cultural and economic history of Italy’s various migrations. Much has changed since then, but this book remains a classic. In this roundtable, historians Lucy Riall, Pamela Ballinger […]

Excerpt: How, as scholars in the environmental humanities, should we approach the fraught concept of wilderness? The following reflections on wilderness discourse are written from our positions as settler scholars in the environmental humanities and as co-convenors of the ASLEC-ANZ Postgraduate and ECR Reading Group. This group was formed in 2021 in response to the […]

Abstract: The paper investigates the ideological and historical roots of the Zionist-Israeli policy and practice of ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians to build an exclusivist ethnocratic Jewish state in Palestine. The ongoing Israeli military invasion of Gaza, since October 7th, 2023, shows that the Jewish state of Israel and its political leaders do not […]

Burgis writes in Jabobin that arguments ‘over whether Israelis or Palestinians count as “really indigenous” are beside the point’ (Ben Burgis, ‘No One’s Rights Should Depend on Where Their Ancestors Lived’, Jacobin, 07/03/24; available at: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/rights-ancestors-land-israel-palestine). In the following paragraphs I unpack Burgis’s rhetorical sleight of hand and argue that indigeneity matters. It matters because […]