Abstract: In the United Sates, happiness has mostly been studied from a Western perspective with the Indigenous American perspective mostly ignored. On the other hand, a deficit perspective is often taken with this population meaning that the literature on Indigenous Americans often focuses on ill-health and problems. This chapter explores the limited extant research—primarily from […]

Description: In Paraguay’s Chaco region, cattle ranching drives some of the world’s fastest deforestation and most extreme inequality in land tenure, with grave impacts on Indigenous well‑being. Disrupting the Patrón traces Enxet and Sanapaná struggles to reclaim their ancestral lands from the cattle ranches where they labored as peons—a decades-long resistance that led to the Inter‑American Court […]

Abstract: This paper examines agrarian colonization as a distinctive state development policy in twentieth-century Latin America. After discussing its intellectual roots in the nineteenth century, the study explores post-World War II agrarian colonization policies in Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil. Proposing conviviality-inequality as an analytical lens, the paper contends that the concept of colonization, rooted in […]

Abstract: We ground the emergence of the Northeast North American university on the stolen territories of Indigenous nations in the Puritan historical context of their origins. In particular, we examine the concept of academic mentorship of people identified as emerging scholars. We show how academic mentorship within this unchallenged and continued Puritanical framework functions as […]

Abstract: On the 6 February 1840 at the first signings of the Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the British Crown, the pledge ‘he iwi tahi tātou’ ‘together we are a nation’ was attributed to Crown representative Lieutenant Governor William Hobson. That was allegedly corrected at the time by prominent chief Hone Heke, who noted […]

Abstract: This largely conceptual multi-article dissertation centers settler colonial theory in a critical interrogation of Wolf eradication and management policy (WEMP) toward the ultimate goal of dismantling injurious structures and systems that brutalize Wolf and other Indigenous animals. Wildlife policy and practice are contemporary manifestations of the long-standing historical project of settler colonialism and its […]

Excerpt: Last week, on November 14th, Māori Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke rose in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Parliament to vote on a proposed Treaty Principles Bill. Opposing the proposed law, she tore the bill in half and led a haka alongside members of her party, Te Pāti Māori. e haka, a traditional Māori expression […]

Abstract: This work investigates the establishment of the first Zionist pioneering movement of Italy, Hechaluz. At the end of WWII in Italy, Jewish members of the Allied armies set up educational and training facilities for pioneering Zionism (halutzism). There had never been a halutzist movement in Italy, so the aim was to create one to […]

Description: As beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation’s representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped […]

Description: The Protestant conviction that believers would rise again, in bodily form, after death, shaped their attitudes towards personal and religious identity, community, empire, progress, race, and the environment. In To Walk the Earth Again Christopher Trigg explores the political dimension of Anglo-American Protestant writing about the future resurrection of the dead, examining texts written between the […]