Excerpt: For Native Hawaiians, the soaring summit of Hawaiʻi’s Mauna Kea is among the most sacred sites for their cultural and spiritual practices and beliefs. Indeed, the summit of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea is a literal dwelling place of deity, with access to the holy site, highly restricted to those authorized to perform sacred […]

Abstract: The US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites during the so-called 12-Day War is part of a long history of preemptive military interventions that use the Indian Wars as a legal precedent. This essay explores how an anti-imperialist framing within American Indian studies sheds light on the legal underpinnings of US ‘forever wars’ in West […]

Abstract: The article analyses 42 rumours and gossip pertaining to Fascist authorities, specifically high-ranked individuals and members of colonial police, documented in Italian occupied Ethiopia (1936–41). The primary goal of this study is to introduce methodological and historiographical reflections for the study of these narratives in the context of Fascist colonialism. This will be achieved […]

Excerpt: Colonialism is most commonly typologized as either settler or extractive. Settler colonialism involves large-scale settlement, as seen in British North America, Australia, French Algeria, and Palestine, while extractive colonialism centers on resource exploitation without significant settlement, as in British India, the American Philippines, or the Dutch East Indies. Drawing on this framework, Nilay Özok-Gündoğan […]

Description: In The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US territorial expansion. Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that […]

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Abstract: This interview with Noura Erakat was done by John Reynolds in September 2022. We discuss the defining features of settler colonialism, how it is distinguished from other forms of colonialism, and the nature of its relationship with international law. The interview also addresses questions of knowledge production: how the field of settler colonial studies […]

Abstract: This article examines the constitution of a settler colony in Liberia, along with its consolidation of modern governmental power, through a techno-political account of debt, rubber and the corporation. Although settlers, paradoxically, received very little of the money loaned to them by international finance capital, their indebtedness was crucially productive. Disassembling the workings of ‘debt’ […]

Abstract: In this article, we examine how fire—a triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen—functions as a settler colonial tool of destruction closely linked to techniques of elimination and replacement. In Palestine, we conceptualise fire as part of a broader set of pyrotechniques—elemental practices that devastate more than bodies and infrastructures by targeting and eroding the […]

Abstract: This paper develops a concept, ‘the tree farm pastoral,’ that describes the ability to perceive beauty in the midst of destruction and dispossession through a particular framing of the extraction of wood and the cultivation of crops. The tree farm pastoral is an affective orientation marked by a series of profound transformations in the […]