Abstract: This chapter explores the intricate relationship between memory, space, and white settler colonialism within Canada’s National Parks, using the Canada 150 Discovery Pass—a state-led commemorative program for Canada’s sesquicentennial—as a case study. It argues that these national parks, celebrated as iconic Canadian landscapes, are pivotal to a white settler national identity that necessitates the […]

Description: How has it become possible for the Australian state to gain public acquiescence to develop one of world’s most punitive systems of processing asylum-seekers; one that not only contravenes Australia’s international humanitarian commitments, but that, in the words of activists, medical professionals, and the detainees themselves amounts to torture? In this highly readable account […]

Abstract: This thesis explores gender dynamics in Kanaky/New Caledonia, highlighting colonialism’s enduring impact on Kanak women’s lived experiences. In response to the gaps in research on how Indigenous women actively negotiate the tensions between custom, modernity and colonialism, this study examines their narratives and practices in cultural education and media activism. Mobilizing a theoretical approach […]

Abstract: This article explores seven generations of our family’s participation in settler colonialism at different times and in different places across Canada. The ancestors we focus on came to North America beginning in 1820, and serial waves of immigration from divergent branches of our family tree followed thereafter. For each generation, we investigate our ancestors’ […]

Description: A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space—and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet. As environmental, political, and public health crises multiply on Earth, we are also at the dawn of a new space race in which governments team […]

Abstract: This article offers a four-part argument in favor of settlers adopting an ethics of recognition in negotiations with Indigenous peoples to support decolonization in North America. Part 1 examines theories of decolonization offered by Indigenous scholars, who show that ethical practices within Indigenous communities are necessary for decolonization. Part 2 focuses on James Tully’s […]

Abstract: The starting point of this paper is mapping extreme right-wing discourses about Indigenouspeoples and their territories and examining how they are reclaimed and subverted through Indigenous resistance movements in Brazil. We highlight how the discursive production resulting from the largest Brazilian Indigenous conference – the Free Land Camp (Acampamento Terra Livre – ATL), in […]

Abstract: This article confronts the urgent need for Indigenous Fat Studies by asking: What does it mean to embody fatness as an Indigenous person under the weight of settler-colonial oppression? Fatness, for Indigenous Peoples, is a radical site of resistance against a colonial legacy that enforces Eurocentric ideals of health, beauty, and body size. Indigenous […]

Excerpt: Early colonial artwork in Australia can tell us a lot about landscape, botany and colonial attitudes. This is very much the case with this painting of King George’s Sound (now Albany) in Western Australia, informally known as the Dale Panorama. So, what is the background to this huge work, almost 3 m in length, […]

Abstract: Indigenous Peoples in Canada face significant environmental health challenges, including long-term, low-dose toxic exposures that contribute to pronounced health disparities compared to the general population. The unequal distribution of industrial contamination and historical practices such as mercury dumping primarily drive these disproportionate toxic exposures. The authors have conducted extensive research in this area including […]