Abstract: Following treaties in Saugeen Ojibwe Nation Territory (the Bruce Peninsula, 1854), the North Shore of Lake Huron (1859), and Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island, 1862), the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA) controlled land sales and the conditions for white settlement. The DIA sold land to fulfill treaty obligations, administering new capital funds that generated annuity payments for […]

Abstract: In 1937 administrators in Australia pronounced the fate of Aboriginal Australians as their eventual elimination, either through biological absorption or natural death. Historians have discussed this moment primarily through the prism of genocide. In this article I widen the interpretive lens to compare it to the contemporaneous resolution to eliminate Indigenous peoples from Palestine […]

Abstract: Torus spatiality offers a unique form of geographic resistance to the asymmetrical power dynamics of settler colonialism that remains sensitive to the infinite complexity of spacio-temporal relationships in fiction and in reality. In this essay I argue for the torus as a literary artistic chronotope that disrupts the domination/resistance binary in which resistance must […]

Abstract: This article gathers texts from missionaries and surveyors from the first phase of European colonisation in Wairarapa, New Zealand, from 1841 to 1853, and critically analyses them as part of a wider corpus of settlers’ writings. Diaries, maps and reports are used to examine colonists’ attitudes toward the environment of the district; based on […]

Abstract: This article considers a curious document – Baker’s Australian County Atlas – which contains carefully illustrated maps of each of the 19 counties in the colony of New South Wales in the mid-1840s. The analysis seeks to bridge the gap between high-level geographical studies of the British invasion of New South Wales and historical analysis of […]

Description: An unflinching examination of the impacts of settler colonialism from first contact to the contemporary nation state. On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples is the first installment in a comprehensive collection investigating settler colonialism as a state mandate, a structuring logic of institutions, and an alibi for violence and death. The book examines […]

Abstract: This article argues that Catholic Irish women who settled in Mexican Texas in the 1830s reshaped gender hierarchies through landownership and legal agency. Unlike their counterparts in Ireland and the United States, these women entered a Spanish-derived civil law system that recognized their right to own, manage, and defend property. Drawing on petitions, land […]

Abstract: Embracing the concept of marginality as a method for recovering histories of home, this book explores communities that have been seen to exist outside of western models of nineteenth- and twentieth-century domesticity, particularly as they were transplanted in – and transformed by – settler, Indigenous, and imperial geographies across the globe. In focusing their […]

Abstract: We are witnessing an urban green turn. Urban greening is frequently proposed as a solution to numerous issues ensuing from this. However, as with other settler societies, urban greening in New Zealand occurs on unceded Indigenous lands. It must contend with the foundational violences upon which its cities are built and be developed as […]

Abstract: In early October 2025, a fragile ceasefire allowed some semblance of education to resume in the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa University, students celebrated becoming the first cohort to graduate since October 2023, a moment of joy amidst devastation. Across Gaza, children returned to learning in buildings with shattered walls, missing desks and chairs, and classrooms still crowded with […]