Excerpt: What does it mean for a native plant to be rendered representative of a settler colonial territory?

Excerpt: The two novels discussed in this chapter reimagine British settlement in what is now Australia. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2005) revisits the convict colony of New South Wales at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By contrast, Lucy Treloar’s Salt Creek (2015), which has so far eluded neo-Victorian scholarship, is set in mid-nineteenth-century South Australia. Rather than using […]

Abstract: Indigenous Peoples remain uniquely exposed to the threat of anthropogenic climate change, thereby requiring the research community to collaboratively explore (alongside Indigenous organizations and individuals) new approaches to climate risk mitigation. This Perspective assesses one aspect of climate risk mitigation – climate engineering, an umbrella term which we use to encompass emergent negative emissions […]

Abstract: It is increasingly claimed that the global environmental crisis known as the Anthropocene is poised to universalize the experience of land dispossession, economic breakdown, and societal unworlding, leaving history’s colonizers as vulnerable as those they have colonized. The former now awkwardly look to the latter for models of how to survive collapse and to […]

Abstract: ‘New worlds’ and new beginnings populate the dreams of both innovation and settler colonialism. In this dissertation I examine how innovation economy is made in entanglement with settler colonial expansions and struggles. The thesis takes place in ‘Silicon Palestine’: the shifting frontiers of technological innovation and risk capital that bring Israel, the occupied Palestinian […]

Excerpt: Late in the summer of 2024, one of the authors of this introduction (EM) boarded a bus from the neighborhood of Bat Galim to Hadar HaCarmel in Haifa. Sitting across from her was an elderly Jewish woman who, clearly seeking conversation, began complaining about changes to the bus’s schedule, her neighborhood, and the city […]

Abstract: The policies of integration and naturalisation are among the most significant strategies that French colonialism sought to implement in the Algerian territory as part of a comprehensive colonial project. Its primary aim was to assimilate and dissolve Algerian identity within the French colonial entity politically, religiously, and culturally to extend its influence over the […]

Abstract: Urban environments worldwide are dynamic spaces symbolising progress and innovation. However, these sites of human significance are also commonly steeped in rich histories of genocide, displacement, and dispossession of Indigenous populations. Contemporary settler-colonial cities not only occupy Indigenous lands but effectively alienate the notion of Indigeneity that inherently exists within them. Aotearoa New Zealand […]

Abstract: This work explores how Mapuche social memory expands understanding of Indigenous territoriality based on mobility in the southern Andes borderland. Social memory offers historically meaningful and rich insights into understanding Indigenous territorial demands and environmental conflicts rooted in settler colonialism. I underline the importance of examining Mapuche memories through historical routes in the Trankura […]

Abstract: Nuclear strategy has long been formulated through analogies. We focus on one in particular: guns. Early nuclear strategists in the United States used multiple analogical comparisons to make sense of the new, apparently unprecedented technology that confronted them. They compared nuclear deterrence to gun dueling and the nuclear revolution itself to the rise of […]