Abstract: This paper examines the paradoxical stance of South Dakota politicians who advocate for school choice broadly but oppose Oceti Sakowin charter schools, using frameworks from school choice literature, Indigenous sovereignty in education, and Indigenous pedagogical resurgence theory. It argues that these charter schools should be understood through a social capital lens, viewing them as […]

Abstract: Ho-Chunk leader Hąpoguwįga (Glory of the Morning) led her village in Wisconsin during a pivotal era of Ho-Chunk history. However, narratives crafted by settlers decenter her legacy, working to legitimize settler colonial occupation and identity. These narratives participate in and inspire settler affect—physical and emotional attachment to place identities—and further settler myths of Indigenous […]

Excerpt: Andrew Curley’s Carbon Sovereignty (2023), Rebecca Hall’s Refracted Economies (2022), and Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay’s Plundering the North (2023), all offer distinct and compelling investigations of political economy. Each considers in some detail how Indigenous Peoples respond to, engage with, or plan around the ways in which the market—be it in the form of coal power plants, diamond mines, or […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the role of white women in the settler colonial processes of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Northwest Territories in the nineteenth century. It introduces to the historiography of the Transvaal evidence that the ZAR mimicked the patterns of settler colonization globally. Through an analysis of the Boer trek period, […]

Abstract: In this critical introduction, co-editors Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, and Julia Hurst set out the provocation and framing for Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won’t Settlers Listen? The collection emerges in the aftermath of the defeat of the October 2023 referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and the constitutional recognition of […]

Abstract: This article explores espionage as a foundational yet understudied strategy within the broader framework of settler colonialism. While existing literature has extensively analyzed the structural and discursive dimensions of settler-colonial projects, little attention has been paid to the practices that enable their success. Indeed, focusing on the role of espionage operations, this study argues […]

Description: In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire’s consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann […]

Abstract: This chapter examines the role/place of cross-cultural translation in New Area Studies by reading Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897) as a mode of area studies avant la lettre. Drawing on Raymond Williams’ Keywords (1976) and later developments of this concept, we examine Twain’s use of three terms: recruit, squatter, and native. Our close […]

Abstract: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are deeply connected to the lands, seas and skies across the settler-colonial state of Australia. They take strength from ongoing connection to culture, spirituality and community. Colonisation impacts these life-giving connections through the dispossession of peoples from Country and disconnection from community and culture. These ongoing colonial processes […]

Abstract: In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Australian brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) is widely reviled as an icon of environmental destruction. This paper employs critical discourse analysis to examine how the possum is constructed as a pest within online media. Depicted as non-native, overconsuming, and proliferative, the possum emerges as a villain in antithesis to the […]