Abstract: Violent upheavals in landownership following conquest often change not only the concentration of land across individuals, but also the inequality of its distribution between groups. We argue that variation in landowners’ group identity has important implications for the provision of local public goods. We test this claim by studying the aftermath of the Cromwellian […]

Excerpt: Data centers are at the heart of metabolic injustices proliferating across much of the periurban and rural United States. Amidst this data center boom and its concomitant AI revolution, it is no surprise that the people and places most vulnerable to their myriad harms are the same people and places that have resisted centuries […]

Abstract: This article examines toponymic transformations in Palestine, exploring how naming practices shape spatial identity in contested geographies. Moving beyond viewing renaming solely as top-down dominance, the research adopts a comparative approach situating Palestine alongside Ireland and South Africa to unpack mechanisms of ‘Memoricide’ and symbolic resistance. Utilising qualitative methodology integrating historical discourse analysis with […]

Abstract: This article considers the ways poetry can attend to the tensions and compatibilities between degrowth and Indigenous sovereignty within a broader ecopoetics framework. Both Indigenous sovereignty and degrowth movements reject growth-based economic models and propose alternative future models that reimagine social and economic systems for planetary survival. At the same time, Indigenous activists are […]

Excerpt: This paper argues that Canadian law inadequately addresses Indigenous identity fraud, failing to prevent individuals from falsely claiming Indigenous status for personal or professional gain. It advocates for legal reform by proposing a stand-alone offence that incorporates Indigenous-led verification and proportionate penalties to prevent fraud, while upholding Indigenous cultural integrity and judicial fairness.

Abstract: This study examines Japanese settler colonialism through a comparative analysis of Hokkaidō, Korea, and Manchuria. Rather than treating these cases as a unified model of Japanese settler colonial practice, it suggests a potential paradigm, characterized by state-led colonial expansion and land appropriation, non-displacement exclusion of natives, and the reorganization of pre-existing social relations into […]

Description: The Thousand-Year Crusade for Palestine traces how Europe’s conversion to Christianity—a religion foreign to its geographical core—forged the continent’s identity around a single fixation: the reconquest of Palestine. From crusading violence through the Protestant Reformation to French Republican nationalism, Hanine Shehadeh shows how Christian Europe built its idea of sovereignty, honor, and belonging by casting […]

Abstract: This article tells the story of a conflict among “trap-neuter-return” experts, environmentalists concerned about the ecological impacts of free-roaming cats, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Animal Services from 2008 to 2020. The conflict included a lawsuit, an environmental impact report, detailed models of cat population dynamics, and the question of whether […]

Abstract: Tracing the trajectory of indentured labourer John McKail, who arrived on the first ship bringing settler colonists to the Swan River Colony in 1829, this paper challenges the binary between peaceful and conflictual frontiers and demonstrates their structural interconnection. Indeed, McKail characterises well how settler colonialism absorbs, masks, and rehabilitates violent actors. McKail’s trajectory […]

Abstract: The Second Growth examines the future of forests, authority, and life in the Nak’albun/Fort St. James region of northern British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, I develop the concept of “second growth” to describe emergent non-colonial relations among regenerating forested landscapes, Indigenous peoples, and non-Indigenous […]