Abstract: This dissertation examines the settler colonial, multispecies, and microbial politics of Atlantic salmon aquaculture in what is now British Columbia, Canada. Salmon aquaculture production systems enable 18 million Atlantic salmon to be raised in nets that are anchored to the seafloor in the coastal waters of British Columbia each year. Aquaculture is recognized as […]

Excerpt: ‘If you accept the settler-colonial framework of analysis, then the metropole is as important as the settler colony. Israel is not a typical settler colony, by any means; it’s also a national project, with a significant Biblical dimension, and a refuge from persecution. No other settler colony was a refuge from persecution to such […]

Abstract: Climate change puts an inequitable and heavy burden on people who are forced to adapt to unjust socioenvironmental conditions created by the legacy of ongoing climate coloniality and historical settler and imperial colonialism. However, universalizing climate adaptation discourses fail to conceptualize these historical processes by framing climate change as external to complex social and […]

Abstract: Dominant reproductive rhetorics in the U.S. settler colonial nation-state, I argue, centralize a symbolic and universal womanhood that functions as a transantagonistic rhetoric. Transantagonism is the symbolic and material hostility that is mobilized to maintain cisnormativity and the colonial/modern binary gender system. I reveal how these settler reproductive rhetorics operate to maintain this system […]

Abstract: Each year, millions of people retreat to what are now known as (WANKA) America’snational parks and their units. This escape from the settler-colonial lives of our capitalisticeconomy and imperialistic mindset is often touted as a much-needed respite for overworked,stressed-out adults and technology-addicted youth- a result of our “more is better” lifestyle anddemand for instant […]

Abstract: Official apologies for human rights violations perpetrated by colonising countries often attract much media attention. However, the actual meaning of an official apology and the concrete consequences emanating from it are usually highly ambiguous, particularly as indigenous communities may well be advocating for some other type of remedy. Examples from each Scandinavian country suggest […]

Abstract: Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual’s convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, […]

Abstract: This essay develops “decolonial mood work,” a political project that changes affective orientations toward crises in settler society and prospects for decolonization. Decolonial mood work is a crucial supplement to scholarship that has focused on demystifying the ideological dimensions of settler colonialism. This essay shows that the regulation of affect is a central, though […]

Excerpt: On April 27, 1864, William McColl, a retired royal engineer turned con-tract surveyor, was still working with Fraser Valley Indigenous leaders to identify lands to be included as Indian reserves when an editorial appeared in the British Columbian under the headline “The Last ‘Potlatch.’” In the article, John Robson directs vitriol at the man […]

Abstract: This study analyzes the portrayal of Manchurian settlement in Yuasa Katsue’s Senku Imin, focusing particularly on landscape depiction. The landscapes are examined by distinguishing between natural and human-made elements. The analysis shows that Senku Imin represents the Manchurian settlement through a composite lens of scenes from colonial Korea and the Rehe region in South Manchuria. The paper […]