Description: In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, […]

Abstract: What does Chinese settler colonialism look like? More precisely, what does Chinese communist settler colonialism look like? In this essay, I consider contemporary Chinese empire in Tibet as a structure of both dispossession and domination, including the loss of state sovereignty. As in situations of empire elsewhere, Tibetan responses to colonization range from consent […]

Abstract: In June 2023, thousands of non-Jewish residents of the Jawlan (in Arabic) or Golan (in Hebrew) protested for several days against the construction of a new wind farm near the picturesque village of Majdal Shams (Arabic for Tower of the Sun) on the southeastern border between Syria and Israel. This event and its fallouts […]

Abstract: This study addresses a gap in existing scholarship on Indigenous people in Canada who identify as atheists. To shed light on this underrepresented group, I conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 18 Indigenous atheists from three different cities. Through these interviews, I sought to explore their experiences, exposure to non-Indigenous atheists, and perceptions of Indigenous […]

Abstract: Western European nations and their settler colonies have long held anxieties about corrupting a white able-bodied heterosexual cisgender populous. For hundreds of years, white Europeans and settlers have found new ways to collectively fret about degenerative sexual and reproductive practices that would deplete white racial hygiene. This chapter tracks white settler anxieties around replacement […]

Description: This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, […]

Abstract: Marginalization as a concept is ubiquitous across the social sciences and humanities and it refers to the ways in which specific sections of society are rendered powerless and pushed to margins of economic, social, political, and cultural life. While such a notion certainly captures important aspects of marginalization, this essay argues that there needs […]

Abstract: The public choice literature has long considered the political economy of environmental regulation and has examined a variety of national and subnational governments’ environmental policies aimed at adaption to climate change. However, there has been little attention paid to the determinants of environmental adaptive actions taken by indigenous governments. Given many indigenous peoples’ heightened […]

Description: This book evaluates classic drama as an active creation. To classic is a complex theatrical practice that animates program choice, casting and staging, audience reception and critical response. Analysis of six distinct examples of pre-determined and self-nominated classic productions on the Australian mainstage is informed by postcolonial theory, specifically the settler dilemma of Indigenous […]

Abstract: The growing scholarship on settler colonialism largely understudies aesthetics. Settler colonial logics work not only through the elimination, dispossession, and criminalization of Indigenous populations but also through the erasure of Indigenous narratives and aesthetics. Aesthetics communicate a particular system of knowledge and power that can either refute or perpetuate settler colonial projects. I use […]