Abstract: This article explores the forms and functions of the ‘predatory imagination’ in nineteenth-century U.S. settler culture, a semiotic nexus where distinctions between ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’ intertwined with ideas about (specific forms of) animality and human-animal difference in a way that reflected the concerns of an aggressively expanding settler nation attempting to resolve its ‘Indian […]

Abstract: This conceptual paper seeks to outline how hospitality discourses have been used to rationalize and justify policies of ethnic cleansing and displacement within the occupied and besieged Palestinian Territories, focusing particularly on the comments and social media activity of the president of the United States Donald Trump. Drawing on a post-qualitative inquiry approach, this […]

Abstract: Colonial settlement was a spatial strategy through which territory was claimed, governed, and made extractable. Conventional origin stories of planning in the Anglosphere emphasize social reform in nineteenth-century industrial cities, yet frontier town-making was also central to the development of planning instruments. This paper examines Queensland’s colonial frontier as a key site where subdivision […]

Abstract: This thesis examines the transformation of the Great Lakes borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s, a period in which overlapping claims to sovereignty gave way to the consolidation of centralized settler states in the North American West. In the western Great Lakes Borderlands–encompassing present-day Minnesota and Manitoba–Indigenous nations, the United States, and the British […]

Abstract: This review essay of The Phoenix of Gaza virtual reality project and exhibit puts Indigenous studies and Palestine studies, as well as scholars of these fields, into citational and historical conversation around the themes of archives, futurity, history, and colonial epistemology. The author describes how experiencing The Phoenix of Gaza took her to three different historical and contemporary […]

Abstract: Wolf killing is a social problem that animates the link between settler colonialism, masculinity, and animal harms. While the existing literature primarily understands wolf killing through the logic of elimination, based on the historical extirpation of wolves, we contend that its contemporary iteration may also be understood through an application of Moreton-Robinson’s (2015) white […]

Abstract: This article examines the status negotiation of the orphan in late Victorian Canadian literaturethrough a postcolonial and settler-colonial lens. The primary objective is to analyzethetransformation of the protagonist, Anne Shirley, from a marginalized Street Arabtoanenfranchised Scholar, illustrating how this trajectory mirrors the consolidation of the British-Canadian settler state. The methodology employs a qualitative literary […]

Abstract: This paper takes as its centerpoint the critical category of “internal colonialism,” an important concept in both social movements and in sociology across different contexts. We trace a world-historical genealogy of the concept, focusing on North America (the United States), Latin America (Mexico and Bolivia), and South Asia (India), evaluating its epistemic-political values for […]

Abstract: This article revisits the environmentalism of children’s television of the 1990s and early 2000s. I focus on two examples representative of this era: Round the Twist and The Genie from Down Under and read them through the lens of Nicole Seymour’s ‘bad environmentalism’ (2018), which deploys humour, absurdity, excess, irreverence, and perversity to challenge […]

Abstract: A Lost Lady by Willa Cather reproduces a dominant cultural narrative that glorifies the aesthetic of the upper-class early settlers of the Western United States who accumulated wealth and property in the process of constructing a new colonial society. Cather does not entirely erase the losses experienced by Indigenous people as a direct result […]