Abstract: This article revisits the history of the 1948 Nakba and suggests that hitherto literature has not explored in depth how the racialised liberal world order has come to bear on settler colonial strategies of dispossession. It was the international relations practice of ‘population exchanges’ that afforded a humanitarian operational logic to structure the mass […]

Abstract: This paper wrestles with the nexus of settler colonialism, the expropriation of Indigenous lands to establish the United States land-grant system, and the field of Family Science. Family Science programs are embedded within the power structures of the universities to which they belong; certain characteristics of these academic units—especially their emphasis on engagement and […]

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Abstract: The Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza and the Brazilian genocide against Black and Indigenous populations provide an opportunity to investigate the processes of elimination in settler-colonial nations. This article aims to examine the conditions under which settler states can exercise sovereign power against subaltern populations. It is argued that the escalation of […]

Abstract: This chapter examines Nazi imperialism in Poland and Eastern Europe from 1939 to 1941 but from the perspective of the individual resettler. Tasked with remaking and resettling the German frontier, individual resettlers comprising the Volksdeutsche were far from passive gears in the massive Nazi bureaucracies and apparatuses in charge of resettling the East. The […]

Abstract: Drawing on the archival correspondence between the parties involved and the English-language newspaper coverage, this article analyses the failed scheme to settle 110 Russian Molokan migrants in Kaua‘i in 1905–6. Supported by a part of Hawai‘i’s sugar planter elite, the experiment was to provide a blueprint for gradually replacing the predominantly Asian labour force […]

Abstract: This dissertation describes how the specific settler-colonial histories of the United States and Argentina led to similar types of counter-colonial science fiction taking shape in both countries. In Argentina, as opposed to parts of Latin America where ideas of racial mestizaje are more dominant, colonial discourse has exalted a “pure” whiteness that would “civilize” […]

Excerpt: Recent interest in climate change has fostered researchregarding the role of dietary vitamin D and the rise in sea-level rise in Southwest Greenland as a contributor to Vikingabandonment. Even in Scandinavian populations withpreexisting advanced adaptation to living at high latitudes,the availability of vitamin D is an important factor deter-mining the possibility of successful migration. […]

Abstract: On March 1938, representatives from the Philippine Commonwealth and Filipino American community organizations organized the First Official Filipino National Convention in Seattle. A committee proposed to send their less-educated kababayan (countrymen) to the Philippines to colonize Mindanao, the archipelago’s Moro (Muslim) and Lumad (non-Muslim and non-Christian Indigenous) South. For Filipino American leaders, state expansion […]

Abstract: This essay discusses settler-colonialism in Palestine and the world system during late neocolonialism. It offers a materialist methodology for interpreting settler-colonial social formations, showing the linkage between settler-colonialism, class, imperialism, and world accumulation. It then considers how race continues to structure local reactions and condition local and international attempts at transformation. It concludes with […]