Abstract: Learning to Dwell in the Last Frontier examines the role of female writers in shaping the literary and cultural history of Alaska’s colonial period (1867-1959), arguing that their works played a crucial but largely unacknowledged role in constructing and contesting the dominant frontier mythology. While Alaska has long been framed through hyper-masculine narratives of […]

Abstract: The recognition and advancement of Indigenous rights is often posed as a threat to democracy. In this article, we counter this idea to argue that the expansion of Indigenous rights does not in fact undermine democracy; rather, it offers an opportunity to reclaim democracy by establishing a more inclusive and pluralistic governance and society. […]

Abstract: California’s former Fort Ord Army Base is located on the unceded Indigenous territory of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation. After seven decades as a training ground for foreign wars, the decommissioning of the base triggered an economic, demographic, and cultural crisis for greater Monterey. The solution to this crisis, the Fort Ord Base Reuse […]

Abstract: In both the United States and Canada, the taxation of Indigenous people is often viewed as an innocent tool for financing government operations. In the settler colonial context, however, taxation is not strictly a tool for financing the government – it is a powerful instrument for racial domination and forced assimilation of Indigenous people. […]

Abstract: Scholars have questioned the analytic utility of gentrification theories when applied to declining Rust Belt cities. In these contexts, scholars suggest the state may play a more significant role in instigating gentrification. This article builds on recent scholarship at the intersection of colonialism, race, and urban studies to examine eight regulatory changes aimed at […]

Abstract: In this note, I will first introduce the Space Race, its lasting impact, and the implications it places on our understanding of property law. I will then discuss common law colonial legal doctrines and their potential impact on space property law. I will also analyze the development of international treaties and agreements in the […]

Excerpt: A political approach informed by the settler-colonial analytic has in recent years become influential within left and radical activist circles in countries such as Australia, some years after it rose to prominence in the academy. More recently, it has spilled beyond the academy and attracted more mainstream attention in the wake of the violent […]

Abstract: Evidence of resistance using occupation exists in the occupational science literature. However, the experiences of the communities who resist can be further explored to extend understandings of decolonial efforts and reasons for doing so. This qualitative study examined the concept and practice of resistance by centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of […]

Abstract: This article examines the travelogues of two late eighteenth-century British travellers: Patrick Campbell and Isaac Weld. Travel writing was a pursuit intimately tied to promoting empire, and by endorsing Upper Canada as an attractive destination for British settlers, both travellers encouraged the dispossession of Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. As tourists, Campbell and Weld were […]

Excerpt: In her 1986 review of Louise Erdrich’s second novel, The Beet Queen (1986), Leslie Marmon Silko seems to praise Erdrich’s “dazzling and sleek” prose only to criticize what she reads as a postmodern aesthetic ideology that prioritizes language “without the tiresome interference of any historical, political or cultural connections the words may have had in the […]