Abstract: This dissertation develops a sociological account of colonial settlement by examining the historical formation and contemporary operation of the Israeli settler–state compact in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It asks how political projects that instrumentalize violence are carried out when the actors who advance them occupy disparate social and institutional locations, and how variable coordination […]

Abstract: This Article is the first work of legal scholarship to examine Turkish population transfers in northern Syria, which constitute perhaps the most aggressive movement of settler populations into occupied territory in current times. In particular, it examines the lawfulness of such movements under Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying […]

Description: Do people have special rights in a place if they are one of the locals? The belief that they do is common worldwide. Yet, entitlement to place has little role in most accounts of migration politics. Instead, accounts of migration politics are a showdown between culture and economics, in-group identities and material incentives. Strangers and […]

Abstract: Feral, pest, savage, invaders: cats have long been painted as the villains in Australian histories, continuing to wreak havoc on biodiversity and the welfare of prized ‘native’ species. But where do these ideas come from? Could it be that selective ecological narratives have presented a simplistic account of feline pasts and presents, obfuscating the […]

Abstract: This article offers a critical Indigenous analysis of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017, celebrated as an innovative fusion of Māori cosmology and Western law through the legal personhood of the river. While positioned as a hallmark of bicultural partnership, the Act exemplifies bicultural containment – a state strategy that symbolically […]

Abstract: In an age when social media is fully embedded within the human experience and identity, it also offers up opportunities for the re-enactment of dispossession and the development of stigma. In this article, I examine data from the remote Central Australian town of Alice Springs’ social media forums, describing a novel medium via which […]

Abstract: As part of the promotional literature for the Society of American Indians (SAI), Secretary Arthur C. Parker ended a recruitment letter with the salutation, “Yours for a united race.” On a draft of this letter, he crossed out the last three words and hand-wrote “progress.” This change calls into question the meaning of unity […]

Abstract: Drawing on three multispecies cases in Palestine-Israel – the fallow deer, the griffon vulture, and the free-roaming dog – this article depicts veterinary governance as constitutive of the settler state. Specifically, the article identifies three interrelated but distinct technologies of veterinary power: biopolitics, enacted through population management and selective reproduction; pastoral power, exercised through […]

Abstract: Social science scholarship has long explored the spatial, political and embodied dimensions of contamination, attending to the ways pollutants are unevenly distributed and unreliably contained. In this framing, waste is relegated elsewhere, to people and places deemed expendable. However, while exposures to waste and other forms of contamination remain deeply uneven, we are also […]

Abstract: From inception, the Zionist project to establish a Jewish state in Palestine has been explicitly colonial. However, recent attempts have been made to frame global Jewry as indigenous to Palestine, including by groups who foreground their own indigeneity. This article focuses on the Indigenous Coalition for Israel, the New Zealand-based group whose founders opened […]