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 […]

Abstract: This article tells the story of a conflict among “trap-neuter-return” experts, environmentalists concerned about the ecological impacts of free-roaming cats, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Animal Services from 2008 to 2020. The conflict included a lawsuit, an environmental impact report, detailed models of cat population dynamics, and the question of whether […]

Abstract: Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory […]

Abstract: The Second Growth examines the future of forests, authority, and life in the Nak’albun/Fort St. James region of northern British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, I develop the concept of “second growth” to describe emergent non-colonial relations among regenerating forested landscapes, Indigenous peoples, and non-Indigenous […]

Abstract: European settlers from Algeria (pieds-noirs) reconstructed Algeria after 1962 as a site of memory and imagined spatial continuity following the collapse of the French colonial project. Moving beyond narratives of repatriation and domestic integration, the article situates the pied-noir experience within MENA studies by treating Algeria as a postcolonial space whose afterlives continued to […]

Excerpt: Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires (University of California Press, 2025) makes a significant contribution to settler colonial studies by expanding the cast and by making settler colonialism to be of connections and collaborations, oftentimes fragile, imperfect, and contested. In Lu’s analysis we get to read of […]

Abstract: Much of settler colonial theory and studies in Canada has focused on the dominant British settler colonial power, with an emerging spotlight on Quebec. Little attention has been paid to French-Canadian settler colonialism in French-Canadian minority provinces such as Ontario. This research aims to make visible this gap in attention and begin to fill […]

Excerpt: A new interdisciplinary field, which I am calling “Oaxacan studies,” has emerged and is offering important conceptual tools for thinking about Latinidad in local, transborder, and hemispheric contexts. While most of the Anglophone scholarship on Oaxaca has been produced by historians and anthropologists who are not native to the pueblos they write about, a […]