Excerpt: The emergence of literary regionalism toward the final quarter of the nineteenth century was largely coterminous with the discovery of what we now call deep time. It might seem ironic that just as theories of evolution started to situate human history within larger temporal scales, the literary imagination appeared to contract, both temporally and […]

Abstract: The Indigenous Peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have faced a shared history of disenfranchisement under settler-colonial paradigms. One consequence of this marginalization has been the widespread deprivation of secure access to safe drinking water in Indigenous communities. To date, much of the literature on Indigenous drinking water access has […]

Abstract: In this chapter, Richard A. Davis, a Pakeha New Zealander, navigates the terrain of decolonization and reconciliation in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand’s settler colonialism. He examines the allure of reconciliation to Christians and the critical challenges it faces, particularly in resistance from indigenous communities. From the perspective of Decolonial Settler Theology, Davis […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism and its effects on deliberative engagement between Indigenous peoples and government is, I believe, under-theorised and therefore largely absent in the literature of deliberative democracy. Before the field of deliberative democracy asks, can it be decolonized, the field must first engage with the work of Indigenous scholars on settler colonialism and political […]

Abstract: This essay provides an overview of analytical possibilities provided by a historical investigation of infrastructure’s temporal fragility within a settler colonial context. Since infrastructure was a tool for forging white supremacy through the creation of a capitalist and exploitative plantationoscene, the essay suggests that the tropicality-induced accelerated decay of plantation works, dwellings, and roads […]

Abstract: In 1976, Israel physically planted USA Independence Park over the ruins of eight Palestinian villages it depopulated during the Nakba, which are located near Jerusalem. The creation of this ‘protected area’ over ‘Allar, Bayt ‘Itab, Dar al-Sheikh, Dayr Aban, Dayr al-Hawa, Jrash, Khirbat al-Tannur, and Sufla was sponsored by US taxpayers. This article critically […]

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Excerpt: Australia House was the first of London’s so-called Dominion Houses, those High Commission buildings that housed offices for the governments of Britain’s self-governing colonies, or ‘Dominions’, as they were known from 1907.1 These buildings opened in central London from 1918. To federationists of the New Imperial era, who held hopes of uniting a Greater […]

Description: Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling is a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America. To give voice to this complicated identity, this volume investigates how cultures of ghost storytelling foreground a sense of […]

Description: The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders – from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera — and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics. Instead, Ciaran O’Neill here makes the case for a broader, more […]