Description: John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States’ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossession of the tribal peoples who […]

Abstract: The Okanagan Valley of British Columbia is often depicted in Canadian settler culture as an oasis in a desert, or a Garden of Eden, thanks to its exceptional climate and semi-arid shrub steppe biome. With its fruit, tourism, and wine industries, it is best known today as place of leisure and plenty. This idyllic […]

Contents: Working Group on War on Genocide Preamble The Algorithmically Accelerated Killing MachineLucy Suchman Land, People, and Palestine: Lessons From Jewish GeneticsNoah Tamarkin Resistance is Fertile: No Reproductive Justice Without Freedom for PalestineMichal Nahman, Sigrid Vertommen, Rodante van der Waal, Rishita Nandagiri, Elif Gül, Weeam Hammoudeh, and Fatimah Mohamied An Ode to GazansJess Bier Mapping […]

Excerpt: In May 2021, in response to ongoing expulsions of Palestinians from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah—and later, against the bombs falling on Gaza—Palestinians/Palestine called for unity. They marched in streets on both sides of the Green Line, they arrived at Al-Aqsa, they stood in solidarity around the world, and they marched on […]

Abstract: In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand frame understandings of […]

Abstract: This thesis explores sovereignty, settler-colonialism, and water rights in Indigenous spaces, focusing on the experience of the Colorado Ute tribes in southwestern Colorado. Drawing on historical analysis and contemporary scholarship, this study examines how the lack of water allocation until 1988 has impacted the sovereignty of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe (“SUIT”) and Ute […]

Abstract: This article uses decolonial methods to examine four monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral which are associated with the settler-colonial state of Canada. It also demonstrates strategies for Indigenizing the pantheon to reassert viewership beyond imperial narratives which have been inscribed into British and Canadian histories. The four monuments are George Edward Wade’s bust John […]

Abstract: This article conceptualizes the relatively small and visually modest presence of Australia in St Paul’s as monuments to British ‘settlement’, rather than invasion. It examines three plaques to politicians and colonial Governors General, and the presence of Australia in the larger-scale memorial to the South African War (1899–1901). I argue that these monuments naturalized […]

Abstract: Recent research has unveiled the pervasiveness with which Indigenous patients are subjected to racialized stereotypes within the Canadian health system. Because discrimination in health care is associated with poor health outcomes and undertreated illness, there is a need to better understand how racism is perpetuated systemically in order to rectify the policies, practices, and […]

Abstract: In the 19th century, Mennonites of German origin began to found numerous settlements in Central Asia. Of the once large number of German settlers, only a few remain in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan today, most having emigrated to Germany after the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the village of Rot-Front in Kyrgyzstan is […]