Description: Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen sheds new light on the memory community of the pieds-noir from the Algerian War (1954-1962) as it continues to resonate in France, where the subject was initially repressed in the collective psyche. Aoife Connolly draws on theories of performativity […]

Abstract: Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo (1808), which recounts the culmination of the Haitian revolution against French colonialism (1791–1804), evokes a nostalgia for colonial order even though colonialism would remain in the Caribbean for decades. The epistolary novel’s narrator, an American visiting Saint Domingue (colonial Haiti), yearns for the “paradise” that she […]

Abstract: In this chapter, we contextualize a suggested approach of strengthening equity and social justice research in mathematics education by inserting the mathematics education enterprise into two world events of 2020: the global COVID-19 pandemic and the global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Our intent in doing so is to underscore how white […]

Abstract: In 1924, a group of French female students were sent on a sponsored trip to Indochina to experience colonial tourism with the hope that they would become promoters of colonialism. This article studies the reactions to this high-profile mission in the local colonial settler press, which focuses on metropolitan ignorance of colonial realities and […]

Excerpt: As the study of African American recolonization expands, historians are beginning to look more closely at the relationship between the forced removal of Native Americans through the process of “Indian removal” and the voluntary recolonization of Black Americans, primarily to Africa. The obvious question of why one group came to face forced removal while […]

Description: This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity, and psychosocial therapy. Chapters centre […]

Abstract: Many Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory (NT) live at the centre of an orchestrated bureaucratic catastrophe which radically diminishes the lives and ways of life of Aboriginal families, communities and societies. This brief article illustrates one aspect of that point, offering the simple premise that, for many Aboriginal people in the NT, the […]

Abstract: Infrastructure can make or break a farm’s economic viability. Farmers’ ownership and ability to invest in infrastructure is often arranged through the family farm model, where farmers are typically married to their business partners. In this paper, we analyze the implications of organizing infrastructure access through the family farm model. Through interviews with 66 […]

Abstract: This chapter argues for the closer integration of historical analyses of hydrosocial relations into the blue humanities by attending to the expressions and consequences of sanitary citizenship in urban settler Australia. Focusing on interwar Perth, Darwin, and Melbourne, this chapter reveals the ways that freshwater has been historically implicated in the social and moral […]

Abstract: In a settler colony such as Western Canada, colonizers came to stay and to claim and re-fashion the land permanently as theirs, displacing Indigenous Peoples, and limiting their former access to their land and resources. An important component of establishing settler ascendancy was the undermining of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and converting them to […]