Abstract: This study analyses Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories — which gained momentum in the late nineteenth century and were institutionalised with the establishment of the state in 1948 — as a long-term sovereignty project and a practice of demographic engineering. Whilst the existing literature predominantly addresses the settlement issue from the perspectives […]

Abstract: This article focuses on two children’s novels: Little House on the Prairie (1932) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and The Birchbark House (1999) by Louise Erdrich. Both works are set in the nineteenth century, specifically during the westward expansion, and during the forced displacement of Indigenous communities. This article aims to read the two novels […]

Abstract: This article traces the khoziain, the steadfast, self-sufficient land master, as an enduring ideal linking late Soviet agrarian reform, the Hectare program, and the state’s renewed fascination with Old Believers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Russian Far East, it shows how this moral figure continues to shape state visions of productivity, settlement, and virtueeven […]

Excerpt: Today the term ‘settler colonialism’ and its associated theoretical frameworks hold obvious significance. The notion of settler colonialism now serves frequently as a lens for critical political and social thought in the humanities and social sciences and outside the academy in social movements. The laser focus on the politics of erasure ought to be […]

Abstract: Perhaps one of the biggest changes that has occurred in the settler state presently known as Canada over the past 55 years has been relations between settlers and Indigenous Peoples. But how have these changes been reflected in scholarship published in Leisure/Loisir? To address this question, the authors engaged with settler colonial theory and […]

Abstract: The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), data infrastructures, and digital experimentation in Australia raises a pressing question: are we witnessing the emergence of a new form of terra nullius, rearticulated through digital systems rather than land? The notion of ‘digital terra nullius’ although provocative, risks being either too metaphorical or too determinist. Instead, I […]

Abstract: This paper investigates the situations unveiled symbolically by the wildfires in Jerusalem (Al-Quds). It considers the ongoing situation in Palestine as a complex of events that reveals various forms of settler colonialism, from their entanglements with archaeology, to their impositions on the flora and fauna of Gaza, taking the wildfires as a point of […]

Abstract: Even when the genre attempts to imagine far-flung futures, and despite a(n ostensible) divorce from the context of historical imperialism, contemporary science fiction (SF) colony sim games have continued to function under and reify epistemological frameworks that see capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism as natural laws instead of sociocultural choices that go on to color […]

Abstract: Indigenous renewable energy presents a unique opportunity to challenge and rectify the historical legacies of settler colonialism and the exploitation faced by Indigenous communities in the context of resource extraction. This study focuses on the Tu Deh-Kah (TDK) geothermal project in Northeast British Columbia, Canada, which stands as an Indigenous renewable energy venture fully […]

Abstract: Creating a self-sustaining human civilization beyond Earth rests on the ability to engage in one very basic, yet essential endeavor: reproduce. The first baby born on the moon or Mars will, in many ways, be an even greater milestone than the first human footstep on its surface. Without the ability to reproduce in-situ, our […]