Abstract: This article reads Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) alongside Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas (2017) to argue that both texts challenge the ideology of property ownership that has long been central to Black and Indigenous subjugation. By reading these texts through Cedric Robinson’s theorization of the Black Radical Tradition, which “never allowed for […]

Excerpt: When most New Zealanders hear the term “marae” they think of the typical Māori meeting house. The angular facade, decorated in red and white carvings, and the open space for the “encounter” where guests arrive in the warmth of welcome, in the grief of a tangi (funeral), or in the uncertainty of a disagreement. […]

Abstract: For some, the 1967 war meant a setback to grand Arab projects; but the Palestinians understood the war in physical and epistemic terms. This is because the war made it clear to them that Israel and Zionism are capable of physically erasing Palestine as well as its history. The Palestinian existential fear of epistemic […]

Abstract: Established during the cholera epidemic of 1832, Montreal’s emigrant sheds sat on the city’s western fringe and played a vital role in urban governance in British North America for the next twenty years. The site served as a place where migrants could be segregated from the general public until they were deemed to be […]

Abstract: Since time immemorial, Indigenous Dene Peoples have traveled ancestral routes throughout what is currently northern Canada and interior Alaska. Tłįchǫ Dene have continued to cultivate an identity as travelers throughout a history of ecological change and the settler ideology of Canadian colonialism. In this article, I aim to contribute to scholarship on Tłįchǫ travel […]

Abstract: Recipes provide one lens through which to examine the history of settler colonialism. In the 18th-century Maritimes, for example, settlers wrote, collected, and circulated instructions for making medicines, food and drink, and agricultural and household products (such as fertilizers, cleaners, and paints). From print and manuscript sources, largely in English with a few in Latin, […]

Description: While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a particularly important subject matter in American Studies: spatiality. […]

Description: Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures […]

Abstract: The Third Eye Seeing project investigates how Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies can inform Canadian Nursing and Medical (NursMed) Education. The intention of the project is to contribute to the development of Canadian NursMed Education and efforts to redress deepening, intersecting health and social inequities. Briefly, Decolonial, Intersectional Pedagogies are philosophies of learning that encourage teachers […]

Abstract: This special issue addresses problems in the study of the colonial-Zionist colonial project in Palestine, based on multiple and overlapping methodological frameworks from the social sciences and humanities. The theoretical contributions of the issue examine numerous important themes, such as: historical sociology, the formation of the settler colonial state, comparative colonial studies, the relationship […]