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 […]

Abstract: The Indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all over-represented in their prison systems. Yet despite a shared history of colonization and dispossession, most Indigenous peoples have little if any contact with the criminal justice system. In this article we put forward and test a model of Australian Aboriginal […]

Abstract: Dementia is a significant challenge for many Indigenous peoples who face inequities in risk factors, prevalence, progression rates, and access to quality healthcare. Culturally relevant interventions are needed across the care pathway, however, little evidence exists to guide culturally relevant communication support. This systematic review aims to understand dementia communication interventions developed for Indigenous […]

Abstract: This study explores the impact of Irish Catholic migration to Upper Canada between 1845 and 1867, focusing on how these migrants challenged the colony’s existing Protestant and loyalist identity. While Irish immigration to British North America was already established in the early 19th century, the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) triggered an unprecedented wave of […]

Abstract: This chapter reviews postcolonial theory from the standpoint of the politics of social justice of two marginalised groups from different geographical settings, namely dalits in India and the indigenous people of Andean Latin America. It is argued that postcolonialism and the Subaltern Studies School—while developing a critique of colonialism and claiming to initiate a […]

Excerpt: Displacement is not only a side effect of colonialism; instead, it is a method. From Harlem to الخليل (Al-Khalīl), displacement impacts those surviving through colonialism. This paper will refer to Al-Khalīl, rather than Hebron, in accordance with the Palestinian Arabic name for Hebron, to respect the pre-colonial name for the land. This paper will […]

Abstract: This essay proposes a discursive shift from the “Palestine exception” to the “Israel exemption” from accountability, in order to recenter Israel’s culpability. It documents the long record of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians, beginning in 1948, and peaking during the current intensified genocide. The author argues that this pattern of sexual violence is a […]

Abstract: Within Indigenous struggles for “collective continuance” (Whyte, 2018) in the face of settler colonial hegemony, three powerful forms of resurgence are Indigenous Land-based (or simply Land) education models; language reclamation initiatives; and food systems organizing for food sovereignty. In the interest of contributing to Indigenous resurgence generally and the literature of decolonization in agricultural […]

Abstract: This paper explores the multifaceted impacts of India’s militarization in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), particularly following the revocation of Article 370 in 2019. Framed within Patrick Wolfe’s “Logic of Elimination” and the framework of settler colonialism, the study examines the systematic erosion of indigenous rights, identity, and autonomy in the […]

Abstract: Data from the U.S. Census shows Latinxs have become a significant portion of the American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) population, with over a fourth of the total AIAN population in the country also identifying as Latinx in 2021. However, scholars focused on Latinx racial identification have not sufficiently examined Latinx identification as American […]