Abstract: Digital labor mobility is reshaping regional economies and challenging established models of migration and spatial development. This study examines how digital nomads transition into long-term digital settlers and what regional conditions support or inhibit that process. Drawing on Network Migration Theory and Lifestyle Migration Theory, a four-stage model of digital migration is developed based […]

Abstract: Settler research in Indigenous country continues to emerge as problematic scholarship, often complicit in an invasive and extractive knowledge production. Drawing on the Unearthing Justices project—a collaborative research initiative that shares and showcases Indigenous-led initiatives for the MMIWG2S communities—this article examines the ontological and methodological possibilities for settler research. Foregrounding a practice of witnessing […]

Abstract: My research examines the contributions of the Eastern Band of Cherokee warriors during World War I, emphasizing Indigenous agency, cultural survival, and community within a settlercolonial framework. It explores how these warriors navigated military service as both an assertion of sovereignty and a means of survival, using their enlistment to resist colonial erasure while […]

Description: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in China’s Eastern Himalayas, bordering Myanmar and Tibet. Like many of China’s Indigenous borderlands, this mountainous region has long borne the […]

Abstract: In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since […]

Abstract: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Urban Relocation program relocated thousands of Native Americans to Chicago and other cities from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. Despite BIA claims of social and economic progress, Native people faced exploitative social, political, and material conditions in the city. This article examines how the BIA envisioned and […]

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 […]