Abstract: In 1885, Sweden introduced a new Conscription Act that explicitly exempted nomadic Sámi from compulsory military training. This article investigates the governmental rationalities and discursive constructions underpinning this exemption, situating it within broader processes of nation-state formation, racialization, and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Sweden. Drawing on official documents and archival material from 1872–1901, the […]

Abstract: The emerging field of urban Indigenous heritage seeks to correct the omission of Indigenous cultural antecedents in urban historical narratives. This paper examines the 2023 City of Lethbridge/Sikóóhkotok Heritage Management Plan – the first in the city’s history to incorporate Indigenous heritage. While heritage management plans commonly focus on processes and protocols for designating […]

Abstract: A long tumultuous history between Indigenous Peoples and police continues to negatively impact Indigenous Peoples in the criminal justice system to this day. In collaboration with the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing, the current research explored how Indigenous-police interactions are represented in news, social media and scholarly literature. A content analysis was conducted on […]

Abstract: This chapter considers the relationship between international law (IL) and race from the perspective of settler colonialism. Drawing on Marxist theory, the discussion frames race as a process of abstraction. From this perspective, IL can be understood as a ‘raced discourse’ insofar as it elaborates juridical categories which are premised on a set of […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is a structure that is expanding in a (post-)Terra Nullius era, at a time of ecological recession and geopolitical instability. The Terra Nullius doctrine (meaning “empty land” in Latin and literally translated as “land belonging to no human”) regarded unoccupied territories as land that could be appropriated. The notion of property and the concept of utilitarianism were […]

Abstract: The essay is a provocation from a Palestinian academic of critical accounting, calling on the field to break its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the on-going settler-colonial project in Palestine. It frames the act of Palestinians documenting their own annihilation as a form of a “scream”. This “Palestinian scream” is both a […]

Abstract: This article examines the role of letters to the editor in British newspapers as a medium for settlers in self-governing British colonies to perform imperial citizenship during the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a dataset of 125 letters from 1860–1900, it highlights how settlers used the participatory nature of the British press to navigate the […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is based in the separation of peoples from Lands and from one another, producing ongoing harm to human and more-than-human communities as evidenced in climate collapse, racialized violence, war, and widening social inequities. These conditions are sustained by ideologies of human supremacy—specifically white, male, Christian human supremacy—that deny personhood to most humans […]

Abstract: The author views this dissertation as a curation of knowledges (generational, lived experience, and academic) designed to reveal how Hupač̓asatḥ First Nation has been racialized, one of the foundations of settler-colonialism, by the Canadian state. To view these knowledges and guide the curation of them, the author developed a Critical, Coastal, Community-Based, Consciousness which […]

Abstract: Modern climate change issues can be better understood by examining how humans have interacted with their environments in the past. Norse agricultural practices and interactions with Iceland’s geography, for example, reflect many of the modern practices and mindsets seen today in places like Northwestern Europe and North America. Studying these settlement practices and the […]