Abstract: Geographical imaginaries are always in a state of struggle, rooted in logics of exception, dispossession, and radical possibility. This article connects the theoretical, methodological, and political uses of geographical imaginaries to geomedia, connecting their coconstituted entanglements in settler-colonialism and role in maintaining settler-colonial hegemony. In doing so, the author traces the ideological roots of […]

Abstract: This article examines the ongoing genocide in Gaza as a culmination of long-standing Zionist settler-colonial practices, arguing that the apparent internal divisions within Israeli society obscure a deeper structural unity. It contends that these dynamics are better understood as generative tensions within a unified colonial project. Drawing on genocide studies, settler-colonial theory and political […]

Abstract: In May 2020, global mining corporation Rio Tinto destroyed the historic Juukan Gorge rock shelters, promptinga public outcry, a government inquiry, and financial and personal sanctions for the company’s senior management,suggesting that the company’s actions were both surprising and shocking. We challenge Rio Tinto’s interpretationand reasoning of the rock destruction by drawing on theories […]

Abstract: This article examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. As Russian scientists and administrators encountered Central Asia’s continental climate, with its extremes of heat and cold, they developed theories that recast the steppe’s aridity from an immutable […]

Abstract: The decades of political unrest that erupted in widespread violence in Canada in 1837–38 were followed by efforts to implement responsible self-government, culminating with the federal union of the British North American colonies in 1867. This evolution of liberal imperial rule consolidated white male authority and legitimized England’s settler-colonial projects across northern North America. Many early […]

Abstract: This chapter discusses the exercise of the right to protest by Indigenous peoples. Specifically, it seeks to address the legacy of colonialism and the way in which it has shaped the act of protest by Indigenous peoples. The chapter focuses on historical examples from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Norway. Protests […]

Abstract: This commentary explores how settler colonial cities have been built upon the erasure and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on Chomsky’s observation that Indigenous communities lead global environmental protection efforts despite being dismissed as ‘backward,’ I argue that colonial urban planning has systematically ignored Indigenous spatial knowledge and relationships with land. Existing city […]

Abstract: “Epistemophilia”—a love of knowledge—is key feature of colonialism. It includes the belief that knowing more is better, that knowledge should be shared, and that knowledge is separable from context. Settler-colonial education systems are in part systems of epistemic extraction and theft that buttress material and relational extractivism, attempting to steal land, relations, and practices. […]

Abstract: This paper focuses on the internal tensions of Whiteness in the dual settler colonial contexts of Quebec and Canada through the relationship between the province as a White, francophone minority/majority and White anglophone Canada. Whiteness in Quebec is mediated through its settler colonial history, language and complexity of its minority/majority position to create an […]

Abstract: Municipalities in settler-colonial countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are placing new emphasis on improving Indigenous-settler relations and addressing colonial injustices in the city, in discourse if not in practice. In Canada, municipalities increasingly identify comprehensive planning projects that define future change and (re)development in the city as a space through which […]