Abstract: In this article I explore the organisation of practices of vernacular cosmopolitanism in the city of Buenos Aires. The starting point is a series of festivals and activities organised by the city government to promote and celebrate its cosmopolitanism. I then explore the spaces where they take place, and the monuments built by immigrant […]

Abstract: The myth that Indigenous sovereignty lives in the past is central to the lore of settler colonial societies. Sustaining that myth entails significant material and symbolic work, particularly organised around the recursive placement of the ‘original moment’ of dispossession and colonisation in the past to make the settler sovereignty that has been imposed appear […]

Abstract: Climate imaginaries – collectively held visions of future climate change – take shape in a variety of media and genres, from computer models to poetry. While some cli-mate imaginaries have proven particularly enduring and have managed to attain a hegemonic status in climate change discourse – for example, the “techno-market” imaginary and the “climate […]

Excerpt: FP: Would you also say that the solidarity between Palestinians and South Africans originates from a recognition of similar experiences of oppression, rooted in racist systems of settler colonialism? SV: I think these similarities are very stark because we can talk not only at the level of economic relationships, but also at the level of […]

Abstract: This dissertation traces the evolution of “emigrant colonialism” from the late nineteenth century through the interwar years. During this period, several traditionally emigrant-sending nations, including Poland, Germany, Italy, and Japan, developed similar strategies for channeling their outflows of migrants into projects for overseas expansion. What they called “emigrant colonialism” involved forming private companies to […]

Abstract: Natimuk is a small rural Australian town that is currently home to farmers, Indigenous Wotjobaluk families, and people attracted by a rural lifestyle. It possesses a history of settler colonialism and oppression of Wotjobaluk communities. The area also attracts rock climbers, whose activities come into conflict with First Nations sites and sacred and endangered […]

Abstract: Liberal theories of property assume a linear and serialized temporal orientation facilitated by title registries, recording systems, and the exaltation of land archives. These assumptions, what I call ‘property-time’, can be productively put into relation with dominant geographic theories of space in two ways. First, I argue that distinguishing liberal notions of property-time from […]

Abstract: In September 1967, the federal government transferred the Government of the Northwest Territories from Ottawa to Yellowknife. While the transfer brought the machinery of government closer to the governed, it also established settler institutions in the homelands of Dene, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Using the tools of administrative history and settler colonial theory, this […]

Description: The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The […]

Description: Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. […]