Description: This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia’s foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to […]

Abstract: This essay not only reassesses Edgar Allan Poe’s legacy in conversation with widely circulated Early American myths about Indigenous people but also uncovers a radical, queer nineteenthcentury temporality in Poe’s work. Examining his lesser-read story, “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” (1844), it argues that Poe confronts fictions of settler time, like the myth […]

Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the recent deployment of sheep and grazing practices by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. The wave of herding outposts that has swept through the West Bank recently involves the use of Jewish-owned sheep to undermine and dispossess Palestinians and to re-indigenize the settlers in their […]

Description: In The Indigenous Anti-Colonial, Linda Tabar explores the radical tradition in which Palestinians remain defiant and undeterred as they hold onto their world and resist settler colonialism. Using a living archive of memory and oral knowledges to trace this long tradition, Tabar outlines the way Palestinians refuse and counter Zionist efforts to erase Palestinian […]

Abstract: This article charts the colonial career of Charles Symmons (1804–87), the inaugural Protector of Aborigines (1840–55) in Perth, Western Australia. British Imperial policies for the protection of Indigenous peoples emerged in the mid1830s, in the wake of the abolition of slavery and following the recommendations of the Select Committee on Aborigines that reported in […]

Abstract: One central feature of the Indian Act, still in force today, is the federal government’s unilateral power to define who is legally recognized as an “Indian.” For most of the Act’s history, First Nations women who married non-status men lost their status, could not transmit it to their children and were forced to leave […]

Abstract: Canadian scholars and political thinkers have long contemplated how federalism might be used to enhance and foster legal pluralism and respect for diversity. Yet, as argued here, Canadian courts often work to deny Indigenous legal jurisdiction by leveraging constitutional principles associated with federalism. This article traces what might be called the “weaponization” of federalism […]

Abstract: This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries. ‘New Warwick’, as the colony was called, quickly collapsed, […]

Abstract: This thesis examines how “return” operates as a grammar of moral formation in the digital TradWife movement. Across Instagram, TikTok, conferences, influencer accounts, and land-based communities, calls to return to tradition, femininity, the home, God, the body, and the land organize a moral world in which recently assembled practices come to feel inherited, coherent, […]

Abstract: This article investigates how contemporary documentary films construct political, visual, and narrative understandings of the Israeli settler project, which is an ongoing settler-colonial project that is sustained by territorial expansion, displacement, and the structural domination of Palestinians. While scholarship has examined settler colonialism in Palestine/Israel, less attention has been given to how contemporary documentaries […]