Abstract: The Moreton Bay penal station was established in 1824 in a remote area of northern New South Wales – now part of Queensland – to punish convicts for offences committed in the colony. To discourage these ‘repeat offenders’, prisoners performed hard labour in irons and were regularly flogged under an unforgiving tropical sun. Among […]

Abstract: Congress created the United States Fish Commission (USFC) in 1871 to investigate the causes of fish diminution on the Atlantic seaboard, but the USFC’s remit soon expanded from study to intervention. In settler California, the USFC set up one of its first hatcheries for chinook salmon propagation on the McCloud River, a tributary of […]

Abstract: In the trans-Mississippi West, white Union veterans and their families commemorated the American Civil War in ways that supported the colonization of American Indians and privileged themselves. This article analyzes the gendered dimensions of this process. In Memorial Day addresses, monument dedication speeches, and GAR and WRC records, western Union veterans celebrated themselves for […]

Abstract: Degrowth offers pathways to stay within ecological limits while increasing human and planetary wellbeing. As non-indigenous scholars living in the settler state of Canada we see a gap in the degrowth literature regarding degrowth transitions within settler societies, as much of it comes out of a European context. In this paper, we analyze three […]

Abstract: On May 9, 1936, in one of his most celebrated speeches delivered from the balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini announced to Italy and the world that the nation ‘finally had its empire.’ Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa a few days earlier; Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian king of kings, had fled into exile. […]

Description: Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche. In this innovative book, Sladja Blažan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social concerns. Ghosts and Their Hosts analyzes American ghost stories, considering their role as a settler […]

Abstract: This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a mixed-methods approach combining cross-media ethnography and open-source intelligence, this study analyzes key disinformation campaigns across digital platforms, including the widely circulated “40 beheaded babies” narrative, […]

Description: This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts. Asking how different Indigenous works imagine the future and how they negotiate settler colonial visions of what is to come, the chapters illustrate that the future is not an immutable entity but a malleable textual/digital product that can function as […]

Abstract: In this introduction we make the case for a new understanding of the relationship between settler colonialism and the development of democratic governance. The concurrence of franchise reform in Europe with the establishment of parliaments in the settler colonies during the mid 19th century is usually seen as consolidating an exclusionary concept of citizenship […]

Abstract: This article explores how settler self-government and written constitutions provoked questions about the responsibilities towards Indigenous peoples and the role of British parliament in the imperial constitution. It traces how British and settler commentators drew connections between colonies in their responses to Indigenous and humanitarian critiques of imperial policy, contributing to changing ideas about […]