Abstract: Suppression, Representation, and Bias: The Sierra Leone Company, Anna Maria Falconbridge, and Portrayals of Indigenous Africans, 1791-1802This paper examines the first decade of Freetown, a British colony in Sierra Leone. Specifically, it analyzes relations between the Sierra Leone Company, the colony’s administrative and governing body, and indigenous Africans in areas surrounding the colony. Although […]

Abstract: This chapter explores islands as locations that have been shaped, but also created, through processes of human invasion. It considers the role of (neo-)colonial forces in moulding the spaces and places of islands, broadening previous theorizing of island spaces to incorporate islands situated on terra firma and bounded by desert. In respect of the latter, the chapter […]

Description: This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts. The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an “imperial” style. With the aim of articulating British global power and prestige, it adorned civic and commercial structures both in […]

Authors Leung, SM Issue Date 2023 Publisher taylor and francis. The Journal’s web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10357823.asp Citation Abstract: Studies on Chinese nationalist discourse in the late Qing era rarely consider the role of settler- colonialism in the development of nationalism, instead assuming that anti-colonialism was the dominant ideological source. This article transcends the […]

Abstract: The Aboriginal Voices project has sought to understand how Aboriginal students and parents tackle pervasive discourses that largely characterise these students as failures, disinterested in education, or without aspiration. This paper presents the conceptual and methodological approach to a multi-site case study of six whole-school communities, adding to the 10 systematic reviews of literature […]

Abstract: Women’s bodies, spirits and struggles all intermingle, as underscored in a comparative, and intersectional analysis of a Brazilian and Canadian film. I put into dialogue the film Teko Haxy, Being Imperfect (2018) with the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019). I investigate what these films communicate about their worlds; what alternative lifeways they propose; […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism attempted to reverse the treatment of land and Indigenous women, treating both at objects to possess and conquer. Land and sense of place is central, not only to the identities of Indigenous peoples, but it is inseparable from patriarchal colonialism that treats land and women as possessions. This possessive consciousness is related […]

Abstract: This article examines the relationship between mass incarceration and environmental inequalities. The United States incarcerates more people than any other country, and incarceration is highly racialized. The article discusses how prisons are settler colonial ecosystems that produce injustice. Prisons are located close to hazardous sites and in areas prone to extreme weather events. Food […]

Abstract: Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North America has shown that historical Indigenous land-use and forest management has resulted in relict forest gardens dominated by edible fruit, nut, and berry producing trees and shrubs – many of […]

Abstract: Manitoba began the 1870s as an Indigenous province, entering Confederation in the aftermath of the well-studied period of the Red River Resistance of 1870. By the 1880s, Manitoba’s power structures and land were largely in settler hands, and the province was being promoted as a fertile land of opportunity for immigrants. This dissertation is […]