Abstract: Nineteenth-century legal practitioners across the British Empire reasoned with ideas of premodern England, including feudalism, Anglo-Saxons and the Nor- man Conquest. This article analyses the practice of legal medievalism in colonial Australia in conversation with the work of Cambridge legal historian Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906). Along the way, it suggests a small typesetting error […]

Abstract: Marx’s theory of alienation posits that under capitalism, when labor is no longer directed to meet immediate needs but belongs to a master, then producers are estranged from their labor. Marx’s humanist theory is ever more relevant today when a new wave of subsistence producers, a majority of them Indigenous peoples, are being dispossessed […]

Abstract: In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a BlackPalestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/Brisbane, we argue that spite generates sovereign action via its insistence on survival in spite of and to spite the colony. Because this form of […]

Abstract: Settler-colonial theory has become an influential framework in sociology. Yet its central claim—that settler-colonialism is an enduring structure organized by a “logic of elimination”—generates a theoretical paradox. If settler-colonialism is total, how can Indigenous agency be theorized without reproducing the structure it seeks to transcend? I address this tension by bringing sociological theories of […]

Abstract: This article explores the enduring presence of Russian speakers in Estonia through the lens of a novel theoretical framework: contiguous settler colonialism. It highlights the settler colonial nature of the Soviet regime and posits that geographical contiguity between a metropole and its colony discourages settler self-determination and lessens the likelihood of mass exodus post-decolonisation. […]

Abstract: The rise of omvolking as a political concept in the Low Countries raises questions about its history, and notably its genealogical connection to Umvolkung. This article traces the genealogy of Umvolkung, thus connecting contemporary population ‘replacement’ discourse to a larger German intellectual and political history. Through conceptual and archival analysis, we distinguish three interrelated strands in the conceptual […]

Abstract: This article examines how long-term prisoners in Western Canada narrate their anticipated re-entry to a settler-colonial society using a narrative approach to analyze 147 interviews with federally incarcerated people. The great majority of our participants describe experiencing child welfare and other types of state intervention when growing up; many are Indigenous. Instead of treating […]

Abstract: Movements across the Global South increasingly mobilise Palestinian political vocabulary – apartheid, occupation, settler colonialism, Nakba – not merely as expressions of distant solidarity, but as analytical tools for interpreting their own conditions of domination. This article proposes the concept of Palestine as political grammar to analyse this phenomenon: the process through which categories elaborated through […]

Excerpt: Unthinkable numbers emerged from a recent agricultural consortium report—seventy-two hours separates metropolitan abundance from absolute scarcity. Not a season. Not a month. Three days of illusion before grocery stores transform from cornucopias into stripped metal skeletons. Analysts who’ve spent careers mapping supply chain fragility now whisper about older methods, buried beneath fluorescent hum and […]

Abstract: This essay complicates the distinction between of “North” and “South” as spaces of knowledge production—which usually entails the privileging of the South as an emancipatory space—by directing attention to Southern actors’ imbrication with forms of colonialism. It calls for situating both Northern and Southern actors within networks of global knowledge exchanges by critically examining […]