Abstract: At the Los Angeles premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon on October 17th, 2023, Christopher Cote, an Osage consultant who worked on the film, expressed reservations about the depiction of the Osage and how their roles are attributed in the story. Because of Hollywood’s misrepresentation history, this comment echoed with issues that are […]

Abstract: Although attention to continuing and continuous structural elements of settler colonialism remains central to understanding the harms inflicted on Indigenous communities, there is always a risk that overfocusing on ‘a structure, not an event’ can leave little air for Indigenous actions and dynamism amid colonial systems of elimination and appropriation. Settler colonialism is not a […]

Abstract: When the Society of Jesus returned to Turtle Island in the 1840s after the suppression of their order in 1773, searching for and consolidating the records they had been forced to leave behind was of utmost importance. The first Jesuit archivists set out to copy legal documents from Jesuits in Europe, records of their […]

Abstract: Reimagining outer space as enclosed and privatized reinforces liberal property rights as universal and necessary to space programs. New space policies mark a return to terra nullius and a narrow conception of land-use that determines property rights. The liberal and colonial logic of property rights affirms hegemonic narratives of space as a limitless environment with no […]

Excerpt: Indigenous knowledge systems provide a comprehensive, interconnected framework for understanding health, wellness, and resilience, particularly through the relationship with land. Colonization severed many of these relationships, leading to cultural, psychological, and physical trauma among Indigenous peoples. The process of neurodecolonization offers a way to heal these historical and ongoing traumas by re-integrating traditional practices—grounded […]

Abstract: Urban land formalization, i.e., land titling and registration, is commonly viewed as a primary policy tool for addressing urban poverty and fostering socioeconomic and spatial development, especially in the urban informalities of the Global Southeast. While critical perspectives on urban land formalization highlight the threats and risks associated with the market-driven logic of land […]

Description: The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is a groundbreaking study of how colonial violence alters and changes visual objects – which in turn affects how a society and culture relates to its own images. Based on the practice-based creative methodology of Palestinian filmmaker and researcher Azza El Hassan, this book explores the re-use and re-appropriation of […]

Abstract: This paper begins by citing Lawrence’s prediction in Studies in Classic American Literature that in the near future the influence of dead Native Americans on U.S. society will begin to work in earnest and that some “real changes” will occur. I then go on to examine whether or not we in the twenty-first century […]

Description: While research demonstrates how Indigenous populations have been disproportionately affected by the global nuclear production complex, less attention has been given to tactics that have successfully resisted such projects. Danielle Endres’s Nuclear Decolonization shifts the conversation around nuclear colonialism in important ways, offering an account of how the Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Skull Valley Goshute […]

Abstract: This chapter investigates processes of criminalisation and repression of dissident political activism of Israel’s citizens, both Palestinians and Jews, given the state’s particular political formation as a ‘liberal’ settler state. I argue that the operational logic of the settler state that guarantees the rights and privileges of the Jewish citizenry dictates the strategies used […]