Abstract: Numerous scholars have argued that sport is a vessel through which to enforce settler-colonial domination; however, sport can also represent a domain in which to support Indigenous-settler reconciliation. Nevertheless, differing understandings of reconciliation, particularly within diverse global contexts, can lead to ambiguity in its definition and application. Therefore, as part of a broader project […]

Description: German Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between their two regimes. Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, […]

Description: In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control […]

Abstract: In the wake of its separation from New South Wales in December 1859, Queensland’s growth was predicated largely by its value as a ‘new frontier’ for European colonists seeking to expand their pastoral and agricultural wealth. The process of settler colonialism was facilitated by the Queensland colonial (later, state) government, who routinely used the […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the intertwined histories of slavery and settler colonialism in Louisiana and the greater Gulf South from the Mississippian era through the early American republic, centering the violences that structured imperial expansion, racial capitalism, and territorial conquest. Rather than treating African enslavement and Indigenous elimination as parallel but distinct processes, this dissertation […]

Abstract: Lucy Ellmann’s 2019 novel Ducks, Newburyport, which presents the internal monologue of an anxious mother of four, is a snapshot of American life in the Anthropocene, as the protagonist worries about her complicity in environmental degradation. The novel illustrates that the Anthropocene is a settler move to innocence that disguises both the role of settler […]

Excerpt: In 1929, 7,442,000 head of cattle were spread across the vast territory of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. By 1931, the number had dropped to 2,800,000 animals.1 By 1935, only 1,830,000 animals remained, nearly an 80% reduction.2 Over the course of the First Five-Year Plan, Kazakh livestock herds—once the wealth of nomadic pastoralists and […]

Abstract: This article focuses on a case study of one Japanese prefectural association and its monthly magazine to reassess the importance of prefectural associations (kenjinkai) beyond the diaspora communities in North America on which Anglophone scholarly focus has remained until now. It also returns an overlooked imperial dimension to Japanese language histories of domestic prefectural […]

Abstract: In March 2018, and again in January 2025, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) censured the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) for its failure to adhere to the profession’s ethical principles. IUSW members have been combat active during the ongoing Gaza genocide and the Israeli union has been stridently unwilling to ‘make […]

Abstract: Australia, Canada and the United States are settler-colonial federations comprising two types of federal units. The first are states/provinces: full, permanent federal partners, securely settler controlled. The second are territories. Historically, territories were “partners in waiting,” slated for federal incorporation once settlers achieved control of the jurisdiction, outnumbering and disempowering Indigenous peoples. The “rights […]