Abstract: Man’ei, established in 1937 by Japan’s Kwantung Army in the occupied northeast region of China, was Japan’s core cultural propaganda institution overseas during World War II. This study systematically examines the origins and developmental background of Man’ei, with a particular focus on the colonial policies promoted by the Kwantung Army, such as the ‘Twenty-Year […]

Abstract: Terraforming has long been one of the most popular concepts in SF and space colonization discourses to think about the necessary territorial changes on other planets to make them livable for human life. More recently, however, terraforming has made the journey from alien environments back to Earth to reflect on how colonialist-capitalist practices have […]

Excerpt: While interplanetary travel is presented as a valuable endeavor, in which space explorers will visit other planets and colonize them, it has also been termed by some scholars as a ‘renewed form of settler colonialism’—the legacy of colonization on Earth that had led to disastrous consequences such as genocide, displacement of Indigenous communities and […]

Abstract: This article asserts that the development of a West Papuan city’s infrastructure has occurred through an ongoing series of dispossession affecting Indigenous Papuans. These acts of dispossession manifest through various subtle, intimate, and familial channels. Consequently, those engaged in the construction of infrastructure encompass both low-wage settler workers seeking to salvage from a beleaguered […]

Abstract: This document outlines how the Israeli occupation army and authorities are using “settler grazing” as a means of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. By allocating land for grazing to settlers, they aim to displace Palestinian communities, restrict their access to essential resources, and ultimately annex Palestinian land into Israeli settlements. These actions violate […]

Abstract: This commentary contends with the broader settler colonial structures through which the second Donald Trump presidency may proceed. Through a historical and contemporaneous engagement with broader concepts such as settler colonialism and the ‘frontier’, this piece grapples with how Indigenous nations can ensure their continued vitality through this political moment.

Abstract: Forests in the United States have long been and continue to be contested places of culturalidentity. Lumbering and European settlement in the forests of Minnesota, Wisconsin andMichigan radically and violently disrupted Indigenous ecological relationships to theirhomelands. Yet the Menominee Nation of Wisconsin has a developed a world-renowned forestryprogram that supports their self-determination across multiple […]

Abstract: Written in April 2025, this position piece is prompted by a number of recent interventions suggesting that the ongoing Gaza genocide is a consequence of Israeli settler colonialism. That the Israeli onslaught in the besieged Palestinian territory is genocidal is undeniable – a mountain of accumulating evidence supports this conclusion. This paper, however, discusses […]

Abstract: Indigenous identity threats are fostered and reified through a cyclical process wherein sources of threat for Indigenous people are simultaneously strategies non-Indigenous people employ to manage threat. One contemporary threat for Indigenous people is the omission of their existence and experiences from the public consciousness. Omission threatens Indigenous identity by undermining well-being and fostering […]

Abstract: Historically, the modification of the landscape through afforestation has been instrumentalized in the service of the colonization of the territory. In this context, the construction of green areas in Palestine-Israel in the twentieth century can be interpreted as an exercise of strategic territorial control linked to the Zionist project. The planting of forests under […]