Abstract: This paper provides an analysis of Indonesia’s settler colonial project in West Papua, examining its systematic dismantling of Papuan cosmobian societies across eight ontological domains: the physicalmaterial, the biological-organismic, the cultural-mythological, the metaphysical-transcendental, the techno-scientific, the space-time-conscious, the domain of ultimate mystery, and the domain of memory. Grounding its analysis in the Psycho-Cosmocide theoretical […]

Abstract: At its core, this is an article about the “problem of the indio” in a transamerican context of migration, and about accounting for the political role of Indigeneity in contemporary Latinx and Latin American literature. The figure of “the Indian” has been a central concept for national literatures in the so-called Americas since the […]

Abstract: This article explores a cascade of deathly entanglements between nations, legal systems, communities, and individuals. Its focus is the vitally important, yet under-theorised corner of Australia’s private law known as burial disputes: disputes relating to the disposal of the body of a deceased person. As many as three-quarters of burial disputes in Australia involve […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the political, rhetorical, and affective dimensions of wildfire governance in the western United States through three interrelated studies that together constitute a critical account of what I call “apparatuses of fire”: the discursive, institutional, and logistical structures immanent to the material existence of landscape fire which have shaped relationships to landscape […]

Abstract: In this chapter, we examine how the Israeli military’s deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems—most notably the Lavender targeting program—operates as a contemporary extension of settler-colonial power that intentionally produces and conceals mass disablement. Situating these technologies within frameworks of racial capitalism, militarism, and ableism, we argue that algorithmic “precision-targeting” not only effectuates widespread […]

Abstract: late nineteenth and early twentieth century chinese-australian discourses on First Nations peoples and issues were strongly influenced by prevalent writings on race and political concerns of that time. this article explores chinese-australian print media pertaining to First Nations affairs, demonstrating that this media conceived of relations with First Nations people under a paradigm of […]

Abstract: Settler/colonialism in Kashmir examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through historical and present settler/colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler colonial, decolonial and Indigenous studies, the book explores how European sovereignty was shaped by settler/colonialism. Settler/colonialism was catastrophic for Indigenous worlds and generated the climate crisis. The book explores how India draws on settler/colonialism’s […]

Excerpt: Even when awarding the Nobel Prize in Economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conceded that the key data in AJR’s most widely-cited article were “sometimes sketchy.” In their 2001 American Economic Review article “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” AJR had used the mortality rates of European settlers as an instrument for good institutions. […]

Abstract: Beginning in 1831, the United States began to forcibly remove over 12,000 Choctaws from their homelands in the Southeast into Indian Territory. Despite the existing scholarship documenting the history of Indian Removal and the steps the Choctaw Nation took to form a new society, several broad questions exist within the Tribal community about the […]

Description: In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” In this profound response to that question,Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem.Zalloua argues that today’s anti-Blackness […]