Abstract: The Canadian context is one in which settler colonialism used legal lies like the Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius to lay claim to land already occupied, used, and cared for by Indigenous Peoples1 since time immemorial. After arrival, settlers “began to act less and less like guests and more and more as lords” […]

Abstract: Existentialist philosophy, in particular the work of Franz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre, was crucial to early postcolonial theorising and, as demonstrated in the work of Brendan Hokowhitu, continues to be an important perspective for understanding Indigenous postcolonial experience. Existentialism is a valuable tool in the on-going attempt to gain clarity about the nature of […]

Abstract: This paper studies how contemporary Chinese diasporic settlers represent their experiences of Australia on Rednote (Xiaohongshu), a visually oriented social media platform with a predominantly young, female user base. Analysis of 248 Rednote posts by Chinese migrants in Australia reveals recurring portrayals of Australia as an empty land of leisure, a site of Chinese […]

Abstract: This critical theory paper reflects on my personal experience conducting my dissertation research in the discipline of engineering education with my Native Hawaiian community. There are inherent tensions that I constantly negotiate in my research practices to find ways to operate within our settler colonial discipline as someone who wants to make visible, resist, […]

Description: How Indigenous communities are transforming the idea and practice of reparations through their laws and leadership. In recent decades, a growing number of Indigenous groups across Canada have initiated movements for colonial reparations. Too often, the settler state has responded by attempting to enfold their work into a narrative of reconciliation that consigns colonialism […]

Abstract: In 1933, the first prize at the colonial literature competition promoted by the Portuguese colonial propaganda agency was awarded to Henrique Galvão’s novel O Velo d’Oiro (The Golden Fleece). The book, which can be read as an invitation to European settlement in the African colonies, immediately became a bestseller.

Except: This essay turns to Black Reconstruction to elucidate the ways in which the economic and libidinal force of such a wage is equally at work in Palestine/ Israel, where, I argue, the Zionist project of settler colonialism (with its blatant anti-Palestinianness) relies on the wage of Jewishness in a way analogous to the dynamics […]

Abstract: When John Henrik Clarke argued that Europe had not only colonized the world, it had colonized information about the world, he had seized upon a reality critical to any real understanding of the function of Western social science. In order for settler colonialism to proceed, it had to interrupt and reimagine knowledge and impose […]

Excerpt: Drawing from three years of ethnographic research on solar projects in NYC, I will show how this mode of market-based self-making is informed by settler imaginaries of societal progress vis-à-vis spatialized transformations when what is known as “the narrative structure of the frontier myth” organizes “entrepreneurial affects”.

Abstract: From the Bone Wars of the late nineteenth century to the Jurassic Park franchise, dinosaurs have maintained a persistent place in the American cultural imaginary. Historians of science and culture have developed an extensive body of scholarship on the extraction of dinosaur fossils during the long Gilded Age. Cultural historians have examined the allure […]