Abstract: The traumatic impacts of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) communities in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the late 20th century have become well-known cases of radioactive injustice. Much less recognized is how these experiences were significant on a global stage. This paper explores how Diné uranium experiences and activism became entangled in two […]

Abstract: The Salton Sea, Southern California’s largest inland lake, is dying. This article moves environmental justice analysis beyond siting and distribution models to show how racialized capitalism is materially inscribed in landscapes over time. I argue that the Sea’s ecological crisis was produced by water infrastructures that encoded white supremacy and racialized capitalism into the […]

Abstract: The settler-colonial foundations of the United States and Israel reveal deep structural affinities in their histories of land expropriation, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic dispossession of Indigenous populations. This article critically examines these parallels, emphasizing the expansionist policies, legal frameworks, and ideological narratives that have shaped both countries. Although the United States has partially […]

Abstract: In this paper, I engage with Tuck and Yang’s (2012) work on settler moves to innocence in the case of racialized immigrants in settler colonial societies. Drawing on interviews and sharing circles with immigrants to a mid-sized Canadian city, I develop the concept racialized settler moves to worthiness, wherein immigrants and refugees attempt to […]

Abstract: This article examines Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) as an understudied 1990s revisionist Western. It argues that the film marks a critical moment in Hollywood’s evolving portrayal of the “Indian Wars.” It demonstrates how the film reveals the structural violence of U.S. expansion through a historically grounded depiction of Apache resistance and how the film […]

Abstract: In the 1890s a small group of Japanese men settled in a Pacific Island group of Truk (today called Chuuk, located within the federated states of Micronesia). The settlers, who found home in several of the islets surrounded by one of the world’s largest coral reef lagoons, arrived a few decades before the islands […]

Abstract: This article traces Indigenous land disputes in nineteenth-century Brazil, centering on a claim from a small village in northern Brazil in the 1820s and the 1830s. It analyzes how a local Indigenous community fought in court to annul an aforamento, a practice similar to land leasing, conceded to the settler Mateus Severino de Avelar. […]

Description: The 1870s was a time of rapid transformation for the province of Manitoba. Though reeling from the aftermath of the Red River Resistance and ongoing oppression of the Métis community, at the onset of the decade the province was still an Indigenous space. However, by the decade’s close, settler hands firmly grasped power structures […]

Excerpt: Settler, it might seem, is easy to define. It is someone who takes up residence in someone else’s home. When settler is tied to an economic intention to exploit, occupy, or otherwise encroach upon other people’s land we find ourselves in the terrain of settler colonialism.

Abstract: In 1885, Sweden introduced a new Conscription Act that explicitly exempted nomadic Sámi from compulsory military training. This article investigates the governmental rationalities and discursive constructions underpinning this exemption, situating it within broader processes of nation-state formation, racialization, and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Sweden. Drawing on official documents and archival material from 1872–1901, the […]