Abstract: This chapter focuses on the understanding of settler colonialism. It elaborates on the notions of colonization and recoding of land in classical political economy. Late eighteenth-century Anglophone intellectuals and policy makers could be skeptical about the benefits of land appropriation, while their counterparts four or five decades later were enthusiastically in favor since both […]

Abstract: This article examines the applicability of Michel Foucault’s biopolitical theory within the Canadian settler colonial context. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, which describes the shift from sovereign power to the regulation of life and populations, is grounded in European historical contexts. In contrast, the Canadian settler colonial experience diverges significantly, necessitating a re-examination of biopolitics. […]

Abstract: Rural Sociology has failed to incorporate Settler-colonialism and Indigenous theory in studying rural social relations. This presents a serious gap in the discipline’s conceptualization of land as the foundation of social reproduction. Indigenous theory provides rich insights about humans’ relations among themselves and with the more-than-human that inform our understanding of Settler colonialism as […]

Abstract: This article documents the process that led two groups of students enrolled in a course at UC San Diego to enter into a deeper and more reciprocal embodied relationship with the play Antikoni (a Nez Perce adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone), its author Beth Piatote, and with UC San Diego’s fraught history related to the repatriation of Kumeyaay ancestors. […]

Abstract: Australian railway histories are dominated by narratives of engineering triumphs, colonial expansion into empty land, and bringing civilisation and development through railway infrastructure. These settler-colonial stories can be read back on themselves as histories and geographies of Aboriginal dispossession and colonial possession. Indeed, Aboriginal people, lands, waterways, and cultures have always been implicated in […]

Abstract: In this dissertation, I provide a place-based examination of settler fire management in the Boreal Forest region of what is lately known as the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In Chapter 1, I start with a historical examination of settler colonialism in the kistapinānihk, or Prince Albert, region of the province, which is my home […]

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Abstract: The current Special Issue focuses on the Indigenous and Native American perspectives on mental health and well-being. This introduction highlights the need to explore how psychological health is conceptualized and operationalized among this population and the ways in which their mental health needs can be better met. The article also provides a brief review […]

Abstract: This thesis presents a critical textual analysis of what I call the reconciliation change narrative in the Canadian settler philanthropy sector, as expressed across an archive of 156 texts produced from 2008-2022 by four philanthropic organizations and their members: one Indigenous-led intermediary (the Circle); three settler-led philanthropic intermediaries (Imagine Canada, Community Foundations Canada [CFC], […]

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