Abstract: This article tells the history of Kristallnacht commemorations in the small Jewish community of Victoria, British Columbia. From their founding in the 1980s, the ceremonies were intended to include members of the general public, in addition to the Jewish community, but the events changed over time, when organizers began to include indigenous people as […]

Abstract: This chapter looks at how the concept of biopolitics can be used to understand the settler colonial legal orders. The focus is on the evolution of the definition of ‘Indian status’ in the Indian Act, which is the central piece of legislation in Canada’s Indian administration regime. Historically, the legal concept of Indian status was used […]

Abstract: This thesis investigates how four contemporary Australian novels, Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda, Joan London’s Gilgamesh, Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book, through adopting innovatively the journey motif and structure, deal with the impact of Australia’s colonial past on the country’s race and gender relationships. These journey […]

Excerpt: Regimes of in/perceptibility, including the ones in baseline pollution studies, have specific relations that are patriarchal, elitist, ethnocentric, and colonial, among other power relations. That is, certain genders, credentials, trainings, and relationships to land are more likely to be understood as truthy and sciencey than others. CLEAR has a specific commitment to thinking about […]

Abstract: Although emergent literature has begun articulating the effects of settler-colonialism on Indigenous Australians’ gender and sexuality, little remains known about how contemporary colonial processes are being counteracted by Indigenous queer communities. Drawing on the qualitative responses within a larger survey with Indigenous gender and/or sexuality diverse people, we explore how strategies of hope and […]

Abstract: At the start of Tommy Orange’s There There, Cheyenne child Tony Loneman peers into his television screen and considers a playground taunt: “Why’s your face look like that?” Confronted with his reflection, he discovers the “Drome”—the way fetal alcohol syndrome has contoured his body, “the way history lands on a face.” The novel ends with […]

Abstract: The chapter examines how settler-colonial narratives ignore the multiple meanings of placed-based Indigenous identities’ connection to the process of climate change adaptation in environmental governance and how the erasure of Indigenous women in the field of geography is socially, politically, and legally constructed categories of colonialism. When I think of the multiple meanings of […]

Excerpt: This is a map of sites where violence occurred on the Australian frontier. This site was updated Wednesday 16 March 2022 with new information. This site does not contain images of people who have died. However, the historical records reproduced here use archaic terms that are racist and offensive, and the themes and content within will […]

Description: In January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced his ‘deal of the century’. Supposedly intended to ‘resolve’ the Palestine-Israel conflict, it accepted Israeli occupation as a fait accompli. Azmi Bishara places this normalisation of occupation in its historical context, examining Palestine as an unresolved case of settler colonialism, now evolved into an apartheid regime. […]

Description: Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton […]