Abstract: This article places the origins of Italian settler colonialism and its defeat in the battle of Adwa (1896) in the global perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism. It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a settler colony was an “imperial mirage”: the perception […]

Abstract: This paper focuses on the settler colonial landscapes of tourism in the regional city of Dubbo, Australia. Dubbo is situated on Wiradyuri Country in the Orana region of New South Wales. Focusing specifically on the heritage-listed Old Dubbo Gaol and the Dundullimal Homestead, a former pastoral station, I explicate how these tourist sites offer […]

Abstract: The bodies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are often discovered at polluted sites in Winnipeg, Canada, including the Red River. Left at toxic sites that authorities deem environmentally dangerous, these women became untouchable in death, mired in sociocultural representations of disposability and wasting practices. We link murdered and missing Indigenous women […]

Abstract: Environmental relationships were critical to most early colonial encounters, especially for those involving permanent settlements. The ability to successfully establish a colony required developing relationships with plants, animals, and the land because they were central to providing for the colonists’ basic subsistence needs. The ways European colonizers developed these new relationships rested on their […]

Description: This book explores the news media’s coverage of Indigenous-settler reconciliation following the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Using a comparative case study research design, the book examines news coverage of three significant Indigenous rights issues and events during the post-TRC era. The findings presented demonstrate that in the post-TRC […]

Excerpt: Images of Israeli soldiers saving dogs and cats buried in rubble by explosions have become popular in the Israeli press and social media in the current round of violence in Gaza. But what can be gleaned from the fact that no images circulate that depict Israeli soldiers digging Palestinian children out of the rubble? […]

Abstract: Colonialism is an area of growing interest for Antarctic scholars, but settler colonialism has so far received only minimal attention. This chapter utilises interviews with over-winterers from Halley research station, a British station on the Brunt Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, to argue that viewing British Antarctic activity within the broader context of settler […]

Excerpt: Drawing historical analogies is always tricky, not least because political regimes and their underlying motivations for carrying out atrocities during war vary wildly. The kind of imperial German racial supremacy that was part of the genocide of European Jewry was different from the settler colonial imperative of the “elimination of the native” that characterized […]

Abstract: This article examines one of the greatest land grabs in history and what may represent one of the single greatest transfers of wealth from Indigenous peoples to a private company: the so-called Rupert’s Land Purchase of 1870. By comparing the lands and money given to the Hudson’s Bay Company following Confederation for the transfer […]

Abstract: In recent years, a more coherent, widespread critique of Zionism as a form of settler colonialism has developed in Western academia. Despite its critical assumptions regarding Zionism, this conversation has yet to influence one of the core images of the Zionist-Arab encounter, mainly that of Palestinian intransigence versus Zionist political flexibility. According to this […]