Description: The Common Camp underscores the role of the camp as a spatial instrument employed for reshaping, controlling, and struggling over specific territories and populations. Focusing on the geopolitical complexity of Israel–Palestine and the dramatic changes it has experienced during the past century, this book explores the region’s extensive networks of camps and their existence as […]

Description: The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions […]

Abstract: In the second half of the nineteenth century, mechanics institutes proliferated across the Australian colonies at such a rate that, by 1900, they were more widespread, proportional to population, than in Britain. This article examines the first 30 years of their development in colonial Victoria to offer a new interpretation of their deep entanglement […]

Abstract: This piece is a response to Cyrus Schayegh’s analysis of the political context behind the emergence and foci of Settler Colonial Studies. I explore questions of teleology and geography as they relate to Caribbean history and U.S. militarism.

Abstract: In 2019, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was changed from an autonomous region to a union territory by the Indian government. On August 5, 2019 India cut off all internet and phone communication into and out of Kashmir and restricted movement into and out of the country. The shutdown occurred during the height of […]

Abstract: Unbalanced or absent Indigenous representation in interpretive materials at government administered heritage sites in settler-colonial contexts can create contention and perpetuate a misinformed or one-dimensional visitor experience and historical narrative. This research therefore examines representation in interpretive materials accessible in 2019 at heritage sites with Indigenous ancestral connections in settler-colonial contexts. This study uses […]

Abstract: This article explores the short-lived friendship between white Australian feminist Germaine Greer and Black Australian activist Roberta Sykes. From 1971–73, when both were engaged in transnational public work in Australia, Britain, and the United States, they bonded over their experiences of rape and sexism, their will to change their worlds, and the highs and […]

Abstract: Plateau State is a vibrant mosaic of diverse ethnic, linguistic, and cultural communities. It boasts one of Nigeria’s highest concentrations of ethnic minorities, with over fifty-eight distinct groups residing within its borders. Since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, the state has faced significant challenges in managing the complexities of indigene/settler dynamics and ethno-religious […]

Description: References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper […]

Abstract: This is a study of Māori and Pākehā women’s contracting and civil litigation in the first eighty years of the English common law in Aotearoa/New Zealand c.1840-1920. It provides the first detailed survey of how colonial women were acting as legal subjects under the civil law. Contracts included marriage, land purchases and sales, consumer […]