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 […]

Abstract: My dissertation, Racial Site: Landedness and Settler Colonial Fantasies of Home, argues that Asian/American literature and media articulates a preoccupation with landedness, or the persistent attachment the U.S. settler state draws between landowning status and subjectivity. As in the designation “landed gentry,” landedness emphasizes land ownership as the key criterion for subject formation under […]

Excerpt: The struggle to erase settler consciousness within a settler colonial project is also the struggle to build a nationalist imagination that is hyphenated: anchored in national identity while simultaneously dependent on transnational infrastructures of power. Both the Israeli citizen and the settler live a double existence, as national subjects loyal to the state, and […]

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Abstract: Drawing from 40 in-depth interviews with self-identified Pacific Islanders, I examine how Pacific Islanders develop their pan-ethno-racial identity alongside their Indigeneity within the U.S. racial hierarchy. I find that settler colonialism plays an active role in individuals’ identity formation—both as a historic event and as a contemporary structure—in three critical ways. First, respondents engage […]

Abstract: This paper investigates the ways in which settler colonialism, and particularly Zionist settler colonialism, explains Israel’s hyperincarceration and hyperpolicing of Palestinian children and the structural abuse these children are subjected to while detained. It argues that it is critical to contextualise Israel’s hyperincarceration of Palestinian children, including the abuse, torture, rape, displacement, and dispossession […]

Abstract: This paper uses Edward Said’s concept of colonial discourse to examine how Mars is colonized by the governments of Earth and dominated by transnational capitalism, as it is depicted in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars. The novel portrays Mars as a battlefield for the imperial powers of Earth, where the wars for Martian land […]

Abstract: This paper challenges the dominant paradigm that territorial justice in settler-colonial states like Canada is a matter of distributive justice. Instead, it argues that theorists should embrace the dominant paradigm in Indigenous political thought and the critical theory that territorial justice is a matter of structural justice. This is because the structural paradigm focuses […]

Abstract: This article provides a critical analysis of the mechanisms and consequences of Russian colonial policy in the last decades of the imperial era, with a particular focus on the land reforms initiated after Stolypin’s agrarian transformation of 1906 and their impact on the demographic landscape of the colonized territories, especially in Central Asia. The […]

Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of reconciliation in the context of settler states (e.g. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, etc.). It takes the position that reconciliation is necessary in these states because they are the products of a particular form of historic injustice (i.e. settler state colonialism), which continues to poison the […]