Abstract: This article examines why Indigenous land titling, widely promoted as an enabling condition for climate action, advances without closing persistent gaps in territorial recognition. It conceptualizes this paradox as a climate titling institutional trap, in which reforms progress through adaptive practices yet remain embedded in territorial governance configurations that constrain their transformative potential. Drawing on […]

Abstract: Over the past decade, Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu has become a flashpoint in Australia’s ongoing History Wars. By challenging colonial myths that depicted Aboriginal peoples as ‘mere hunter-gatherers’ and demonstrating the complexity of pre-colonial practices of cultivation and land management, Pascoe directly unsettled the legal fiction of terra nullius and, with it, the legitimacy of the settler-colonial nation-state. […]

Abstract: A widely shared assumption is that truth-telling about colonial violence can facilitate reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous peoples. This paper addresses the psychological disposition of the settlers of Australia as it was manifested in recent public contestations, including in the lead-up to the Voice referendum of October 2023, when the proposal of amending the […]

Description: This collection brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and experts from Australia and beyond to examine the persistent settler-colonial patterns of denial, ignorance and antipathy that continue to constrain the possibilities of truth and justice in settler-colonial societies. Written from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives, the chapters identify and analyse the social, cultural and […]

Abstract: The Living Prairie Museum (LPM) initially called the St. James Prairie Park, or the St. James-Assiniboia Living Prairie Museum is a tall grass prairie conservation area and park in Winnipeg established in 1976. It was set aside by municipal leaders to preserve an area that is home to a diverse range of prairie grasses […]

Abstract: Following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa and amidst calls to «decolonize academia», decolonial theory has become increasingly read and cited in many academic disciplines. But as I seek to demonstrate in this essay, decolonial theory as elaborated by the leading exponent of it, Walter D. Mignolo, is beset with internal contradictions and […]

Abstract: The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also a cultural one, marked by the systematic erasure of Palestinian identity, memory, and cultural heritage. This entry examines the destruction of Gaza through the lens of settler colonialism, tracing its roots to the early Zionist project and the violent establishment […]

Abstract: The 2019 EU Green Deal and the 2015 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 on sustainable energy, both strongly encourage investments in renewable energy sources, amongst others wind power. However, wind power is but the latest in a long line of encroachments on the Indigenous Sámi peoples’ […]

Abstract: In a time of declining belief in the American dream (the U.S.-based meritocratic ethos that hard work results in socioeconomic mobility), this article asks how people are reacting to the concept. Drawing on interviews with 65 respondents in Oregon, this article demonstrates that critiques of the American dream as a tool of settler colonialism […]

Abstract: Allyship is increasingly recognized as a key concept in nursing to support the rights, resurgence, and healing of Indigenous Peoples. It is presented as a practice of resistance that challenges settler colonialism, disrupts the status quo, and fosters social justice. Yet, allyship remains difficult to define and operationalize in practice. This discussion paper contributes […]