Abstract: The Living Prairie Museum (LPM) initially called the St. James Prairie Park, or the St. James-Assiniboia Living Prairie Museum is a tall grass prairie conservation area and park in Winnipeg established in 1976. It was set aside by municipal leaders to preserve an area that is home to a diverse range of prairie grasses […]

Abstract: Following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa and amidst calls to «decolonize academia», decolonial theory has become increasingly read and cited in many academic disciplines. But as I seek to demonstrate in this essay, decolonial theory as elaborated by the leading exponent of it, Walter D. Mignolo, is beset with internal contradictions and […]

Abstract: The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also a cultural one, marked by the systematic erasure of Palestinian identity, memory, and cultural heritage. This entry examines the destruction of Gaza through the lens of settler colonialism, tracing its roots to the early Zionist project and the violent establishment […]

Abstract: The 2019 EU Green Deal and the 2015 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 on sustainable energy, both strongly encourage investments in renewable energy sources, amongst others wind power. However, wind power is but the latest in a long line of encroachments on the Indigenous Sámi peoples’ […]

Abstract: In a time of declining belief in the American dream (the U.S.-based meritocratic ethos that hard work results in socioeconomic mobility), this article asks how people are reacting to the concept. Drawing on interviews with 65 respondents in Oregon, this article demonstrates that critiques of the American dream as a tool of settler colonialism […]

Abstract: Allyship is increasingly recognized as a key concept in nursing to support the rights, resurgence, and healing of Indigenous Peoples. It is presented as a practice of resistance that challenges settler colonialism, disrupts the status quo, and fosters social justice. Yet, allyship remains difficult to define and operationalize in practice. This discussion paper contributes […]

Abstract: This article is located in decolonial perspectives, framing grief and mourning as a liberatory praxis against carceral coloniality and settler colonial violence. As decolonial, Indigenous, and Black feminist thinkers propose, there is hope for justice so long as we do not forget injustice. This proposal takes us to the conundrum: How not to forget […]

Abstract: This qualitative study relies on a theory-driven analysis of legal and institutional sources to evaluate the application of post-colonial theory to the Kashmir issue by India, comparing the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir with India’s North-Eastern states at the intra-state level and India’s brinkmanship with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations […]

Description: How Indigenous Americans and colonial settlers negotiated the meaning of independence in the Revolutionary era. On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Indigenous land along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, a group of colonial squatters declared their independence. They were not alone in their efforts. This bold symbolic […]

Abstract: Human space-faring societies have been the subject of science fiction and the imagination of countless people desiring a different way of life. Various concepts of what life would be like in space, whether on a spacecraft, space station, or other planets or moons, vary with the imagination of those seeking various idealistic or altruistic […]