Abstract: Drawing on a case study of Brisbane, Australia, this paper explores the parallels between the historical formation of settler-colonial cities and contemporary urban renewal schemes. Focusing on the development of a penal settlement (1825-) and largescale waterfront redevelopment (1988-), this study demonstrates how use of overt, top-down state power and a degree of authoritarianism […]

Abstract: Australia has made no treaties with its Indigenous peoples. Despite that, over the past five decades (the ‘land rights era’ of the title), Australia has granted proportionally more land area to Indigenous interests than have other, treaty-making Anglo settler colonies (Canada, the United States, New Zealand). Despite complexities of comparison by area, an order […]

Abstract: This article contemplates slow cinema’s potential to counter the intensity of mainstream eco-disaster cinema. Although the genre’s aesthetics are not inherently critical of the temporality of late capitalism, documentaries such as La isla y los hombres (The island and the men, Iñaki Moulian, 2017) can make apprehensible how the epistemological boundary between human and nonhuman life […]

Abstract: This paper examines domestic space in relation to nineteenth-century US federal Indian policy. It presents a self-help homebuilding project funded by the Women’s National Indian Association (WNIA), a philanthropic state proxy providing social programs for Native peoples. Administrators used the project to argue for the success of individual land tenure as an assimilative tool […]

Abstract: This article examines the containment of the dispossessed Chinese peasants through the mechanism of the collective hamlet in Japan-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s. To alleviate its internal recession, Japan initiated the agrarian emigration project and sent farmers to Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Japanese Empire. What followed was the expropriation of local Chinese […]

Abstract: This paper uses a case study of the life history of the Japanese agriculturalist Kane Watanabe (1859–1945) to examine the gendering of agriculture in late nineteenth century Hokkaido. Hokkaido was in the process of being colonised by the Japanese during the Meiji period. Watanabe studied English, Japanese, and Chinese literature, and a range of […]

Description: An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel. Focusing on animals […]

Abstract: In this article, we pair biopolitics (the production of social life) with necropolitics (the production of death), as we maintain that they operate together in Puerto Rico where the management of life in its totality and ‘the subjugation of life to the power of death’ run concurrently. This creates the climate for a catastrophic […]

Abstract: This paper employs an Afropessimism framework to critically analyse the Marikana massacre in South Africa, specifically examining the pervasive presence of anti-Blackness within organizational structures. Through an exploration of labour-management dynamics and conflict resolution mechanisms, the study underscores how anti-Black violence operates as a genocidal force under settler colonialism, perpetuating enduring states of social […]

Abstract: This article examines statements issued by municipal governments, local organizations, and Indigenous communities that cancelled Canada Day celebrations in 2021, following news confirming physical evidence of unmarked graves at former residential schools. We argue that the statements reflect political logics of the past, present, and future, including dominant national narratives of liberal multiculturalism, residual […]