Abstract: Between 1950 and 1985, a period now referred to as the “Sixties Scoop”, over 24,000 Indigenous and Inuit children were removed from their families and placed into primarily non-Indigenous foster and adoptive homes across Canada. Whereas the Residential school system was explicitly racist and genocidal in its orientation, the Sixties Scoop racism was cloaked […]

Abstract: This chapter explores this conjunction of politics and heritage using the passing of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act (2018), and the heritage framing of the feral horses of Australia’s Alpine region, as a case study. Examining the ongoing political machinations surrounding the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act (2018), from the realm of legislature […]

Abstract: This research project explores early settler relationships to place, land, and the environment in Dunedin from the mid to late 1800s. The project aims to provide a new perspective by looking at the affective responses of settlers to the environment/nature and how they helped create a sense of belonging. This project has drawn on […]

Descritption: This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples. The prevalent tendency to treat an apology as a speech act has maintained the focus on the state leader making the apology and not on the victims’ claims. This book demonstrates the inherent shortcomings of this approach through an examination […]

Abstract: Colonialism can be seen as a historical process, or an ideology. As this article demonstrates, for Canadian Doukhobors, it is also a lived experience. Canadian Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers, are a group of pacifist religious dissenters of mixed ethnic origins who immigrated to Canada from the Russian Empire in 1899. The worldview of the […]

Abstract: Why do post-colonial states engage in population resettlement in their frontier territories? In this paper, we shift away from the motivations for resettlement by advancing a cost-centric theory for resettlement. We contend that states may use the resettlement policy because they inherit the infrastructural capital to do so from settlers of former colonial powers […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the interaction between Euro-American settlers and miners and the unique environment of central Idaho from 1863 to 1964, highlighting how cultural and social frameworks imported by these settlers led to recurrent disasters. The settlers’ adaptation to these disasters, in turn, reshaped their cultural values and land-use practices. Focusing on the cultural […]

Last month Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman published in Time an authoritative outline of the evolution of antisemitic thought and addressed settler colonial studies as part of its contemporary instantiations (Noah Feldman, ‘The New Antisemitism’, Time, 27/02/24). Time is a very important outlet. Antisemitism is a very serious charge. Feldman’s intervention warrants a response. […]

Description: More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization—often outside of Utah—continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah’s overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell takes a detailed look at the Bighorn Basin colonization of 1900–1901, placing it in the […]

Abstract: Colonial settlement, understood as the emigration of Italians to the colonies, was an essential element in the history of Italian colonialism, for both the political planning and the socio-cultural processes that settlers from the mother country triggered in Africa. This was not a linear process. At the end of the 19th century, the intention […]