Abstract: This article explores the experiences of First Nations participants as the #BlackLivesMatter protests burst onto Australian mainstream and social media platforms and onto Australian streets in 2020. We explore First Nations participants’ perceptions about the significance and relevance of #BlackLivesMatter in Australia to support First Nations existing political campaigns to address structural racism and […]

Description: Throughout world history, the occupation of new territories by settler communities has informed the formation of specific colonial regimes, combining territorial control, the imposition of legal authority, and the eradication of indigenous cultures. The newly developed field of settler colonial studies characterizes these regimes as the elements of a particular structure with an eliminatory […]

It’s early 2024, and with the war (a.k.a. genocide) in Gaza, a spate of mainstream outlets discusses settler colonialism. The concept is receiving special attention because it is more and more offered in activist circles and in public discourse as a key to interpret events. The Atlantic and Al Jazeera, and many other outlets delve […]

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Abstract: My dissertation, “Intimately Intertwined: Settler and Indigenous Communities, Filipino Women, and U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations in the Philippines, 1903–1956,” uncovers the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the U.S. colonial Philippines. It highlights Filipino women and brings out multiple relationships among the two empires, the colony, Filipinas, Japanese settlers, and other diverse residents. […]

Abstract: Property rights are secure, and violence over land can be attenuated when the treatment and delineation of the property are consistent, stable, and interpreted similarly by each party. In the absence of a mutual understanding of property rights, land-use stability becomes strained as the area of contested land between two rival parties expands—when one […]

Description: American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.  In Freedom’s Dominion, prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on […]

Abstract: In this article, the authors examine the systemic nature of state violence and racial terror in the context of the Australian settler state and Indigenous deaths in custody. Drawing on Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton’s (2003) concept of a “double economy of terror,” the authors contend that police violence and Aboriginal deaths in custody […]

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Excerpt: Within enrollment management, the word “pipeline” is a metaphor used to describe the structures and procedures of a student’s educational journey between two institutions (Pitcher & Shahjahan, 2017). The process of moving through the enrollment pipeline is often facilitated byarticulation agreements—documents outlining course requirements as students transfer from a two-year to a four-year college […]