Abstract: This chapter considers how the most well-known hemispheric literary networks of the nineteenth century refract the Americas’ shared histories of settler colonialism. It does so through a close examination of José Martí’s 1886 “El Terremoto de Charleston” (The Charleston Earthquake)—a chronicle that troubles the boundaries of nineteenth-century Latin America as Martí would delineate them […]

Abstract: Beyond the issues of Palestine’s partition and the Suez crisis, the Middle East has received little attention within the history of Canadian international relations. And yet, in 1947 and in 1956, Canadian officials undertook fateful actions that shaped this region’s politics. This paper examines Canadian foreign policy toward the Middle East during the 1940s […]

Description: Hungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler colonial perspectives. A critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies,” Dylan Robinson evaluates how decolonial practices of listening emerge from increasing awareness of our listening positionality. This, he argues, involves identifying habits of settler colonial perception […]

Abstract: Since Hamas’s 7th October attacks on southern Israel, the Palestinian population living in the Gaza Strip has been subjected to an unprecedented level of destruction that has decimated every aspect of Palestinian life. The ongoing Israeli military invasion has been considered a ‘plausible case of genocide’, and the humanitarian catastrophe has been compounded by […]

Abstract: This article explores the development of capitalism in Palestine under British colonialism and the Zionist settler colonial project. It examines first, Israel’s internal and external capitalist dynamism, including its treatment of its non-European citizens, namely indigenous Palestinians, and non-Ashkenazi (Arab) Jewish settlers. Second, it explores the state’s interdependent relationship with Western, especially US imperialism. […]

Abstract: Taking as a starting point the desire of many to locate the unfolding genocide in Gaza in the irrationality of its perpetrators — the Israeli state and/or its imperial backers — this article proposes instead to understand it as an extreme expression of the continuous violence necessary to maintain not only local settler colonial […]

Excerpt: Fanon’s insights on colonialism, oppression, and the division between colonizers and the colonized resonate profoundly when examining the complex and enduring struggle in Palestine. His writings shed light on the intricacies of a struggle where a colonial dividing line has been etched deep into the landscape and consciousness of the region. In exploring Fanon’s […]

Description: An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands. Offers a complex depiction of Scotch-Irish interactions with Native Americans over time and across the continent. Explores historic roots […]

Abstract: This article considers Indigenous refusal to state-imposed US citizenship through a reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020). The novel follows the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa’s struggle to remain a federally recognized tribe during the US government’s move toward tribal termination in the 1950s. While the characters’ appeal to the US government could be […]

Abstract: This dissertation focuses on artworks by Andy Warhol, Brian Jungen, Mike Kelley and Rebecca Belmore. These works emerged in the wake of a shift that commenced in the 1960s and 1970s, as Canada and the United States largely changed their state policies towards Indigenous peoples from coercive assimilation to a form of political recognition […]