Description: Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the […]

Abstract: Objectives: This study examines how settler-driven environmental change shaped malaria transmission and mortality in 19th-century southern Ontario. It aimed to understand the biosocial and ecological conditions that sustained endemic malaria in a temperate, colonial context. Materials and Methods: We analyzed 2702 deaths attributed to probable malaria from 1831 to 1900 using civil, cemetery, parish, […]

Excerpt: “Settler colonialism” has become the latest academic concept transformed by pundits into a bogeyman. Just since October 7, 2023, to cite a few examples, Time featured a cover story cautioning that application of the label to Israel “run[s] the risk of perpetuating antisemitism,” and the New York Times published multiple “explainers” of the term, […]

Abstract: American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people are often excluded from the sociology of race within the United States. To expand research on racialization, this article examines how AIAN individuals experience and navigate racialization through the concept of “street race.” Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 47 AIAN individuals living in urban […]

Abstract: The settler colonial project of India in occupied Kashmir operates through a sustained project of domination, cultural erasure and demographic engineering. While India’s political, military, and demographic interventions in Kashmir are well-documented, their profound and enduring impacts on individuals, particularly the 1989 Kashmiri refugees, remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by drawing on […]

Abstract: In 2019, I went on a search of the National Library and Archives of Canada. I was looking for the petitions of Pierre Shawinipinessi, an Algonquin leader who successfully petitioned the British government for land to be set aside for his community, only to have the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, twenty years later, deny […]

Description: “Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?” the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish’s poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences—in a triangulation of Palestine, Iraq, and the American settler state—as his language recalls us to a sonority in utterance and acts of refusal in collective form. Through readings […]

Abstract: Climate change is an inherently human-made phenomenon that shapes the mobilities of species and things who, in turn, influence the ways climate change is experienced by humans. These multifaceted climate mobilities are grounded in the spatial histories of imperialism and settler-colonialism, and the legacies of socio-cultural injustice inflicted upon the Global South. Central to […]

Description: How did an Arab dish become an Israeli culinary passion? Less than a century ago, hummus and other Palestinian staples were often met with disinterest and sometimes outright rejection among Zionist settlers. Yet for modern-day Israelis, hummus has become a dish that is both everyday and iconic, intertwined with cultural perceptions of authenticity, indigeneity, […]

Abstract: Muska Mosston, renowned as a forefather of pedagogical innovation in the field of physical education and sport pedagogy, is celebrated for his Spectrum of Teaching Styles, which has permeated the field for decades. However, an examination of his biography reveals problematic ties to Zionist settler colonialism, including active participation in the dispossession and erasure […]