Abstract: Bracke’s article revisits population ‘replacement’ ideologies from an analytical vantage point of coloniality and takes this as a point of departure for a psychosocial exploration of ‘replacement’ anxieties. The article first attends to three prominent instances in the modern genealogy of population ‘replacement’ thinking: Le Grand Remplacement by Renaud Camus in the 2010s; the […]

Abstract: The Sunshine Coast of southern British Columbia, Canada, is extensively populated by Himalayan blackberries (Rubus armeniacus), a species introduced to North America in the late nineteenth century. In their coexistence with other species, humans often categorize nonhuman life forms as either beneficial or detrimental. Yet the Himalayan blackberry challenges this binary classification: while widely […]

Abstract: This article examines the introduction of trout from the northern hemisphere as part of the colonial ordering of Argentine Patagonia. Since 1904, trout have been mobilized not simply as ecological interventions but as tools of state-building that have reshaped rivers and lakes and contributed to the displacement of indigenous peoples. Stocking programs initially provided […]

Abstract: Violent upheavals in landownership following conquest often change not only the concentration of land across individuals, but also the inequality of its distribution between groups. We argue that variation in landowners’ group identity has important implications for the provision of local public goods. We test this claim by studying the aftermath of the Cromwellian […]

Excerpt: Data centers are at the heart of metabolic injustices proliferating across much of the periurban and rural United States. Amidst this data center boom and its concomitant AI revolution, it is no surprise that the people and places most vulnerable to their myriad harms are the same people and places that have resisted centuries […]

Abstract: This article examines toponymic transformations in Palestine, exploring how naming practices shape spatial identity in contested geographies. Moving beyond viewing renaming solely as top-down dominance, the research adopts a comparative approach situating Palestine alongside Ireland and South Africa to unpack mechanisms of ‘Memoricide’ and symbolic resistance. Utilising qualitative methodology integrating historical discourse analysis with […]

Abstract: This article considers the ways poetry can attend to the tensions and compatibilities between degrowth and Indigenous sovereignty within a broader ecopoetics framework. Both Indigenous sovereignty and degrowth movements reject growth-based economic models and propose alternative future models that reimagine social and economic systems for planetary survival. At the same time, Indigenous activists are […]

Excerpt: This paper argues that Canadian law inadequately addresses Indigenous identity fraud, failing to prevent individuals from falsely claiming Indigenous status for personal or professional gain. It advocates for legal reform by proposing a stand-alone offence that incorporates Indigenous-led verification and proportionate penalties to prevent fraud, while upholding Indigenous cultural integrity and judicial fairness.

Abstract: This study examines Japanese settler colonialism through a comparative analysis of Hokkaidō, Korea, and Manchuria. Rather than treating these cases as a unified model of Japanese settler colonial practice, it suggests a potential paradigm, characterized by state-led colonial expansion and land appropriation, non-displacement exclusion of natives, and the reorganization of pre-existing social relations into […]

Description: The Thousand-Year Crusade for Palestine traces how Europe’s conversion to Christianity—a religion foreign to its geographical core—forged the continent’s identity around a single fixation: the reconquest of Palestine. From crusading violence through the Protestant Reformation to French Republican nationalism, Hanine Shehadeh shows how Christian Europe built its idea of sovereignty, honor, and belonging by casting […]