Abstract: This article focuses on the Bureau of Settlement and Resettlement Studies, an institution established to study Poland’s post-1945 ‘recovered territories’. It participated in worldmaking: shaping the geographical imagination and realities of Poland’s postwar recovered territories in historically specific ways. Drawing on data from field collaborators, the bureau’s archival practices contributed to framing the incorporation […]

Abstract: In the context of settler colonialism, taxation and public revenue systems are integral to the political narratives surrounding indigenous nations and peoples. The fiscal arrangements established within these settings often manifest as asymmetrical budgetary structures and tax collection mechanisms. This paper critically examines the typology of public revenues in Palestine to elucidate the complexities […]

Abstract: This chapter builds on recent calls to ‘unsettle’ planning theory by looking quite directly at what this project of critical reflection and charting of possible ways forward might mean in contexts that are powerfully shaped by the ongoing structures of settler colonialism. Despite its limitations, settler-colonial theory offers a way for non-Indigenous planners to […]

Abstract: In this article, I ask whose bodies are disciplined, silenced and displaced to make way for the interplanetary utopia of Starbase, the launchpad of SpaceX in Boca Chica, Texas. Its location in the borderlands speaks of a troubled legacy which mobilises the home as a symbolic ordering of bodies that excludes the racial other. […]

Excerpt: Puanani Burgess’s poem “Choosing My Name” (1998) articulates the fraught positioning of multiracial Asian-Native Hawaiians under the conditions of settler colonialism and the tenacity of Indigenous genealogy to persist under what Patrick Wolfe calls the “logic of elimination” (“Settler” 387), as the poet-speaker demands recognition and refuses erasure of her Kanaka Maoli heritage by […]

Abstract: This essay elaborates how a Deleuzian mind conceives the becoming of history in terms of ‘end’ or ‘exit’. A novel focus on ‘exiting’ from histories of colonialism offers an important paradigm shift away from the prevailing models of ‘post-colonial reconciliation’ and ‘de-colonisation’ that provide the concepts and language most often used for thinking about […]

Abstract: Facilitating settler decolonization is multi-faceted and non-linear. Based on existing scholarship, the key components that facilitate settler decolonization encompass taking responsibility for one’s own learning and unlearning, self-examining that leads to a decolonial practice, building relationships with Indigenous people and place, and revising settler narratives to acknowledge the settler problem and Indigenous sovereignty. While […]

Description: Marketing the Wilderness analyzes the relationship between the outdoor recreation industry, public lands in the United States, and Indigenous sovereignty and representation in recreational spaces. Combining social media analysis, digital ethnography, and historical research, Joseph Whitson offers nuanced insights into more than a century of the outdoor recreation industry’s marketing strategies, unraveling its complicity in […]

Abstract: For this review forum, Peter H. Hoffenberg, Brian C. Black, and Libby MacDonald Bischof were invited to explore issues raised in Jarrod Hore’s Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism.

Abstract: Focusing on recent community efforts to repair Lorado Taft’s Eternal Indian statue, this article reads the statue as a public thing. In doing so, I argue that sympathy active at the 1911 unveiling of Taft’s Indian statue and 2020 restoration capture what I call settler sympathy. Instead of granting the ability to see from […]