Abstract: In From the Wreck (2017), Australian author and environmentalist Jane Rawson imagines that her great-great-grandfather George Hills, one of the survivors of the shipwreck of the SS Admella, is rescued by a more-than-human shapeshifting being, who subsequently destabilizes his identity as a settler living in colonial South Australia. In this essay, I argue for […]

Excerpt: The momentous legal case brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa at the end of December 2023, and first heard by the Court in January 2024, has renewed long-held debates over the political importance, efficacy, limits, and potential of international law to meaningfully address the most egregious forms of human […]

Abstract: This article examines the contested politics surrounding the supervised consumption site (SCS) in River City, highlighting how harm reduction spaces have become flashpoints of settler-colonial anxieties about Indigeneity, visibility, and urban governance. Despite clear life-saving benefits, local political and business elites framed the SCS as a threat to the city’s moral and economic order […]

Abstract: This thesis introduces and develops the concept of slow erasure to describe the layered, structural, and ongoing processes through which settler-colonial regimes seek to eliminate Indigenous identity, agency, and episteme. Building on and expanding the frameworks of genocide by attrition and cultural genocide, slow erasure captures the accumulative and often invisible forms of violence […]

Description: In this unique, provocative and wide-ranging work, author Rohan Price explores the colonial experience of Western Australia, Tasmania, and Singapore with reference to four concepts: Being, Legality, Convenience, and Fate. At its heart are case studies of violence between white settlers and local Indigenous populations in Western Australia and Tasmania, and the Japanese invasion […]

Abstract: This article examines the role of banana plantations in the settler-colonial, capitalist transformation of Mandate-era Palestine. A microcosm of Zionist settlement and Indigenous Palestinian resistance, the cultivation of bananas reveals competing visions of development and national legitimacy, rooted in the cultural politics of ecological and economic nationalism. Framing banana cultivation in Palestine as a […]

Abstract: In this article, we examine how fire—a triangle of heat, fuel and oxygen—functions as a settler colonial tool of destruction closely linked to techniques of elimination and replacement. In Palestine, we conceptualise fire as part of a broader set of pyrotechniques—elemental practices that devastate more than bodies and infrastructures by targeting and eroding the […]

Abstract: Placing Lauren Berlant’s concept of “cruel optimism,” in conversation with Tuck and Yang’s work, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” this paper examines affective attachments to mass tree-planting efforts, which encourage unquestioned faith in these initiatives, serving to enable their persistence despite their consistent failures. This paper questions how affective attachments to mass tree-plantings teach […]

Description: There are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world, belonging to 5,000 different groups, in 90 countries worldwide. Indigenous people live in every region of the world. As ‘being Indigenous’ is increasingly acquiring a more globalised focus, terms such as ‘Indigeneity’ are useful to refer to our membership of the global community. As […]

Abstract: Starting in the 1890s, expansion-minded Polish nationalists advocated the settlement of the Brazilian state of Paraná, hoping to create a bridgehead for a ‘New Poland’ in South America. This article examines why, around 1900, colonialists began framing the Polishspeaking settlements of Paraná as another front in the ‘culture wars’ that pitted German and Polish […]