Abstract: This conceptual paper examines the tensions that emerge in debates about decolonisation in education, particularly those that position decolonisation as incommensurable with social justice projects. Scholars have identified pitfalls in the incommensurability thesis, including the risk of reifying colonial binaries – such as the settler-Indigenous dichotomy – and fragmenting alliances between decolonisation, anti-racism, and […]

Abstract: In the last decade, Big 10 environmental movement organization (EMO) rhetoric in the U.S. has noticeably shifted to include topics pertaining to social justice. For Indigenous studies scholars, Indigenous peoples, and Tribal governments and organizations, this raises questions about how Big 10 organizations grapple with Tribal sovereignty and with ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. […]

Abstract: Driven by a United Nations 2017 recommendation to assess New Zealand’s progress to eliminate racial discrimination and the 2019 terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques, the Ministry of Justice along with National Iwi (Indigenous) Chairs forum (NICF) launched the National Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR) Joint Steering Committee in April 2022. In April 2024, the […]

Abstract: In contexts of collective victimization such as settler colonialism in Canada, recognizing bothhistorical and ongoing victimization, as well as supporting reparations measures, is crucial for healingthe relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and for propelling reconciliationefforts forward. While most non-Indigenous Canadians recognize the historical victimization ofIndigenous peoples, fewer acknowledge ongoing victimization of Indigenous communities […]

Description: The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States. In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the audacious idea to create a state within the Union governed by and for […]

Abstract: Property (in its currently most powerful form) is made through the violence of dispossession. Property-making requires the transformation of landscape; prior residents, both human and nonhuman, are no longer welcome. This process is particularly clear in ‘frontiers’, that is, places where property is in formation through the displacement of Indigenous peoples and ecologies. This […]

Abstract: Stephen Graham Jones’s 2020 horror novel The Only Good Indians follows the haunting and murder of four Blackfeet men by a vengeful monster called Elk Head Woman, who manipulates the settler gaze to make the men look to outsiders as the source of the violence, much as violence within real-life Indigenous communities is often illegible to […]

Excerpt: In the early 19th century, Bradford emerged as a powerhouse of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, becoming the nation’s leader in mechanised wool spinning. Wool was the town’s lifeblood; by 1881, a third of Bradford’s working men and two-thirds of its working women were employed in the trade. While Manchester was known as “King Cotton”, Bradford […]

Abstract: I explore the specific challenges of teaching genocides committed in the United States and Canada against Indigenous peoples through various methods and the very logic of settler colonialism. The positionality of settler professors and students means that this subject stands in sharp contrast to other commonly taught cases of genocide which are “far away” […]

Abstract: Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization–savagery paradigm that conditioned Indigenous dispossession. Revisiting the same colonial archive of British Columbia through the dual lenses of legal geography and Indigenous feminism, the article examines […]