Abstract: Heritage-making’s intrinsic dissonance has been thoroughly established in the field of critical heritage studies, and yet it is a reality that continues to be obscured in heritage practice in settler colonial cities. Authorised heritage discourse continues to project existing state-led systems of heritage-making as a self-evident ‘public good’ for current and future generations. In […]

Abstract: This project revalues the often underrated concept of ambivalence as a distinct concept pregnant with creative potentialities and applies it to settler Newfoundland culture as a research lens. In the process, our understanding and image of the place are enriched by reinterpreting a collection of charged contexts, which have hitherto been considered little related, […]

Abstract: In the era of Climate Change, many are concerned that the end of the Anthropocene, or the end of the era of human life on Earth, is upon us. Western European colonialism and its subsequent systems (settler-colonialism, colonial-capitalism, and globalization – sometimes termed “neocolonialism”) have all been implicated in contributing to unsustainable behaviors linked […]

Abstract: This paper considers epistemic dimensions of injustices associated with settlers self-indigenization through false claims to being Métis. First, we provide an analytic characterization of the act of self-indigenization. Afterwards we spell out how confusions surrounding the meaning of the term ‘Métis’ generate lacunae in the social imagination of the dominant society in Canada. These […]

Excerpt: Future space explorers and planetary settlers will face unique, immense challenges. The heroism demanded of future colonizers of the Moon, Mars, and beyond transcends our conventional understanding of courage and sacrifice. These pioneers will embark on perilous journeys into the unknown, facing the harsh trials of extraterrestrial environments, isolation, and the relentless pursuit of […]

Description: Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive framework was lacking that would more fully examine and express children’s relationship with political power. Rather than simply hitching children’s resistance to standard theories of resistance, Heidi Morrison seeks to meet children on their own terms. […]

Abstract: Substantial and necessary research examining the violence perpetrated against Native women continues to flourish, while violence and masculinity studies focused on Native men draws little attention. Meanwhile the murder rate of Native men is three times higher than Native women, twice as high as white men, and occurs at the hands of police more […]

Abstract: Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize […]

Abstract: “Nurturing Resistance: Food Sovereignty in Jonny Appleseed and The Seed Keeper” investigates how Indigenous literary characters engage in subsistence practices—growing, preparing, and consuming food—as a means of resisting the resource extraction, industrial agriculture, and ecological degradation perpetrated by settler-colonial powers on traditional First Nations and Métis territories in present-day Manitoba and Minnesota. This master’s […]

Abstract: This dissertation investigates the reproduction of American settler colonialism in the Tohono (desert, Tohono O’odham territory) and waterways’ physical and ideological reconstruction via the appropriation of O’odham labor and indigeneity since the early twentieth century. Social scientists have emphasized the role of infrastructure, land, labor, race, and gendered and sexualized power in the physical […]