Description: How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany’s future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key […]

Description: Life, Earth, Colony explores the ideas, life, and historical significance of German zoologist turned geographer Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), famous for developing the foundations of geopolitical thought. Ratzel produced a remarkable body of work that revolutionized the study of space, movement, colonization, and war. He also served as a source of intellectual inspiration for national socialism, […]

Abstract: This review article juxtaposes two books, Placental Politics and Moral Figures, whichoffer innovative decolonial, feminist approaches to reproductive politics and embodiedconnections in colonial and contemporary Oceania. They evince an extraordinaryempirical and theoretical sophistication that has developed in scholarship over recentdecades in analysing the racialised and gendered logics of colonialism, in researchingthe embodied relations between […]

Abstract: Currently, pregnant Indigenous Peoples living in remote, rural, and northern Indigenous communities in Canada are subjected to evacuation birth policy, whereby they are evacuated out of their community to large, urban hospitals to give birth. Evacuation for birth is assumed to decrease biomedical risk because people are birthing in hospitals. In Canadian health systems, […]

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Abstract: This article examines the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in Gaza as a continuation of the Zionist settler colonial project. It argues that the massacres and displacement of Palestinians are not aberrations but intrinsic to the continuous Zionist colonization of Palestine over the past 75 years. The […]

Excerpt: The discipline of economics and the subdiscipline of political economy have managed to, for the most part, distance themselves from studying the issue of occupation, colonialism, and conflict in Palestine. This engagement is aimed to remedy that. We consider such an engagement crucial for two reasons. On one hand, by way of this intervention, […]

Abstract: Many First Nation individuals appear to accept that debates about belonging to First Nations political community are properly framed as debates about citizenship. Interlocutors frequently identify the ongoing significance of kinship, but fold it into their conception of citizenship. This Article resists citizenship’s orthodoxy. Kinship is not a unique feature of First Nations citizenship, […]

Excerpt: What does it mean for a native plant to be rendered representative of a settler colonial territory?

Excerpt: The two novels discussed in this chapter reimagine British settlement in what is now Australia. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2005) revisits the convict colony of New South Wales at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By contrast, Lucy Treloar’s Salt Creek (2015), which has so far eluded neo-Victorian scholarship, is set in mid-nineteenth-century South Australia. Rather than using […]