Abstract: What-aboutism deflection is not a communication failure. It is colonial technology – an automated institutional defence that activates when First Nations Peoples name specific harm and demand specific accountability. This piece argues that what-aboutism functions as a discursive mechanism with identifiable patterns, a documented history, and measurable consequences: in the 18 months following the […]

Abstract: This article recovers the lived experiences of trafficked Indigenous women in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1878 through 1885, the Argentine Army carried out a series of campaigns in the Pampas and Patagonia, imprisoning and displacing thousands of formerly autonomous Indigenous people. Hundreds of prisoners, mostly women and children, were sent to Buenos Aires […]

Description: The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia’s embrace of the world’s nuclear order. Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia’s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of […]

Excerpt: This special issue asks the question: What does Indigenous fat studies look like, particularly when we refuse coloniality? It questions what happens when fat Indigenous bodies are not positioned as problems to be solved, but as sovereign sites of knowledge, memory, resistance, and futurity. Across (un)settler colonial contexts, Indigenous Peoples have been rendered (hyper)(in)visible […]

Abstract: This thesis reorients settler colonial studies towards an understanding of humanitarianism’s role in the constitution of the settler subject. Grounded in the case of Palestine/Israel, the settler colonial modality of humanitarianism that I illustrate is two-fold: enabling the continuous establishment of the settler society; and providing a tool for the dispossession of Palestinians. To […]

Description: In 1924 Norman Leys shocked liberals by revealing the truth about settler colonialism in a best-selling book called, simply, Kenya. He showed that settler colonialism had nothing to do with a ‘civilising mission’ but meant the ruthless exploitation of African forced labour. In 1910 he had exposed the duplicity of the Governor of Kenya in […]

Abstract: This article examines the so-called ‘emigration solution’ to the ‘refugee question’ in postwar Europe and the plans to resettle Germans expelled from the East of Europe in Latin America. After laying down the theoretical framework, articulated around the concept of ‘coloniality of migration’, the article contextualizes the German presence in the East of Europe […]

Abstract: As humanity moves closer to establishing settlements beyond Earth, libraries must be reconceptualized as autonomous, adaptive, and ethically grounded systems that support human survival, learning, and cultural continuity in extraterrestrial environments. This paper presents a conceptual framework for “extraterrestrial librarianship,” integrating insights from space science, digital preservation, human-computer interaction, and Library and Information Science […]

Abstract: In urban Nigeria, the indigenous and the settler groups meet on a daily, long-lasting basis, challenging the questions of belongingness, recognition, and power. The research explored how ethics and culture influenced peaceful coexistence between indigenous and settler people in Ketu, a multi ethnic neighbourhood in Kosofe Local Government Area in Lagos State. An exploratory […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is multi-faceted and widely debated. Emerging in the 1990s through foundational scholars like Patrick Wolfe and Jürgen Osterhammel, the field of settler colonial studies is relatively young. Even amongst scholars, finding a definition for the term is a difficult task. Osterhammel expresses this difficulty, calling colonialism a “phenomenon of colossal vagueness.” Scholars […]