Abstract: Anglo settler states like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States were built through the dispossession of Indigenous lands and through the disruption of Indigenous political, social and economic systems. Over time, however, Indigenous nations have challenged the unjust foundations of these states, forcing settler states to respond with repression but also with […]

Abstract: This chapter examines the Chinese Communist Party’s policies towards Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It argues that the systematic repression of Xinjiang under Xi Jinping’s leadership demonstrates that the Party-state’s approach is an outgrowth of the convergence of two distinct yet interrelated imperatives – an ideological shift toward assimilation of […]

Abstract: In June 2020, Alberta’s United Conservative government under Jason Kenney passed the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA). This provincial act codifies penalties for trespassing or obstructing various forms of “critical infrastructure,” including infrastructure attributed to Alberta’s fossil fuel economy. However, unbeknownst to many, CIDA was passed in direct response to Wet’suwet’en land defenders blockading […]

Abstract: Drawing from Billy Ray Belcourt’s (2020) A History of My Brief Body, this article draws an analogy between the City of Victoria, B.C., located on unceded Lekwungen territory, and a museum to explore the affective nature of settler colonialism within the urban landscape. Like a museum, cities are curated. Each piece of art in […]

Abstract: This article examines transnational Indigenous cooperation among Permanent Participants in the Arctic Council using decolonialism and Indigenization in Canadian foreign policy analysis. The mainstream IR approaches primarily consider Indigenous NGOs as civil society groups united by common interests and cultures and as organizations that promote social change. This study argues that unlike other types […]

Abstract: This study offers a new perspective on settler colonial theory through the case of Serbia/Kosovo. It develops two hypotheses: (1) settler colonial projects in neighboring territories differ markedly from those overseas, necessitating a revised conceptualization called here ‘contiguous settler colonialism,’ and (2) these projects may prompt settlers to remain amid decolonization despite adverse conditions. […]

Abstract: This dissertation studies the function of whiteness in early twentieth-century American orphan narratives. Building upon previous scholarship on literary orphans, postcolonial studies, and Critical Race Theory, this dissertation links the study of literature, whiteness, and imperialism to the forces behind the renegotiation of race in the United States in the first decades of the […]

Abstract: Two major thinkers of anti-colonialism in Algeria—Kateb Yacine, author of the novel Nedjma (1956), and Frantz Fanon—described the impacts of colonial violence through figures of petrification that blur the border between human and nonhuman. Their works ground this article’s relational reading across anti-Black and anti-Algerian racializations, drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s concept of rhythmic reading and scholarship […]

Abstract: This article places the origins of Italian settler colonialism and its defeat in the battle of Adwa (1896) in the global perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism. It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a settler colony was an “imperial mirage”: the perception […]

Abstract: This paper focuses on the settler colonial landscapes of tourism in the regional city of Dubbo, Australia. Dubbo is situated on Wiradyuri Country in the Orana region of New South Wales. Focusing specifically on the heritage-listed Old Dubbo Gaol and the Dundullimal Homestead, a former pastoral station, I explicate how these tourist sites offer […]