Abstract: Indigenous horror studies have highlighted the genre’s potential to foreground counternarratives to settler discourses. Close readings of Indigenous literary narratives may establish new imaginings of Indigenous cultures in our past, present, and future. They may therefore dismantle colonial hierarchies, and counter dominant settler-colonial narratives that continue to permeate contemporary American society. This thesis investigates […]

Abstract: The marked burial of the dead functions as a proprietary claim to land, and the law has legitimized this relationship since ancient times. Contributing to the literature in death studies and legal geography, this research provides a much-needed examination of this property relationship in a settler-colonial context and aims to understand how the law […]

Abstract: Migration has played a key role in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the founding, consolidation, and maintenance of the settler nation state of Canada. Immigrant acculturation and a history of the forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples continue to shape Canadian society, yet researchers only rarely consider these processes together (Bohaker & Iacovetta, 2009; […]

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Abstract: Nineteenth-century legal practitioners across the British Empire reasoned with ideas of premodern England, including feudalism, Anglo-Saxons and the Nor- man Conquest. This article analyses the practice of legal medievalism in colonial Australia in conversation with the work of Cambridge legal historian Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906). Along the way, it suggests a small typesetting error […]

Abstract: Marx’s theory of alienation posits that under capitalism, when labor is no longer directed to meet immediate needs but belongs to a master, then producers are estranged from their labor. Marx’s humanist theory is ever more relevant today when a new wave of subsistence producers, a majority of them Indigenous peoples, are being dispossessed […]

Abstract: In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a BlackPalestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/Brisbane, we argue that spite generates sovereign action via its insistence on survival in spite of and to spite the colony. Because this form of […]

Abstract: Settler-colonial theory has become an influential framework in sociology. Yet its central claim—that settler-colonialism is an enduring structure organized by a “logic of elimination”—generates a theoretical paradox. If settler-colonialism is total, how can Indigenous agency be theorized without reproducing the structure it seeks to transcend? I address this tension by bringing sociological theories of […]

Abstract: This article explores the enduring presence of Russian speakers in Estonia through the lens of a novel theoretical framework: contiguous settler colonialism. It highlights the settler colonial nature of the Soviet regime and posits that geographical contiguity between a metropole and its colony discourages settler self-determination and lessens the likelihood of mass exodus post-decolonisation. […]

Abstract: The rise of omvolking as a political concept in the Low Countries raises questions about its history, and notably its genealogical connection to Umvolkung. This article traces the genealogy of Umvolkung, thus connecting contemporary population ‘replacement’ discourse to a larger German intellectual and political history. Through conceptual and archival analysis, we distinguish three interrelated strands in the conceptual […]