Abstract: The Australian continent has over 6500 edible endemic plant species, fourteen of which have been certified for commercial consumption. This paper seeks to critically analyze select Australian Commonwealth Government policy relating to these Aboriginal plant foods. The aim is to purposefully examine the positioning of non-Indigenous people in Aboriginal plant foods policy discourse and […]

Excerpt: The discipline of psychology is inherently colonial. Currently, psychology largely reflects a Eurocentric perspective that mainly centres on the experiences and perspectives of white people. There is currently very little room for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing in the field of psychology. There are currently less than twelve Indigenous practicing or teaching […]

Abstract: The paper explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in designing facilities for human habitation in non-terrestrial habitats, particularly on the Moon and Mars. The author propose the concept of “Anthroporobotocene” to highlight the significant role of robots in shaping these environments to make them suitable for human life. The paper analyzes the state-of-the-art […]

Abstract: The encounter between anthropology and history has great potential to illuminate marginalized social actors and the diverse power relations that were in play in the past, especially in the lives of urban Indigenous people. This article traces the trajectory of the growing interchange between anthropology and history and their different methodologies to document Indigenous […]

Abstract: There is very little research on German colonial geography in general, and the boom in this subdiscipline during the National Socialist period has not received any scholarly attention so far. Against that backdrop, this paper aims to contribute: a) to a finer-grained picture of colonial, racial-Völkish thinking – and its application – in German geography during […]

Abstract: This article focuses on the ancestral human remains of Indigenous peoples that were taken by European invaders during the colonial era. It begins by considering the notion of human remains. It then describes the two types of heritage that result from the removal of human remains: the tangible heritage made of the remains exhibited […]

Abstract: This article explores the uses of utopian rhetoric of food plenty in Italian colonial visions before the First World War. It examines the travel writings of three leading Italian journalists, Enrico Corradini, Arnaldo Fraccaroli, and Giuseppe Bevione, who visited the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and campaigned for their colonization by Liberal Italy. […]

Description: This book is the first of its kind to showcase a range of fresh and expert perspectives on decolonising history education in Australia. The research-informed chapters by First Nations and non-Indigenous educators and scholars provide guidance on applying practical strategies for decolonising learning and teaching, and moving beyond the ‘history wars’. History has long […]

Abstract: Grounded within the field and practice of philanthropy, the authors discuss the relationship between Indigenous material culture and philanthropy. This tangled relationship between philanthropy, colonial institutions, and Indigenous material culture continues to cause harm for Indigenous Peoples. We illustrate the problematizing nature of museums viewing material culture detached from current Indigenous Peoples with the […]

Abstract: This article assesses the socialist colony of New Australia, founded in Paraguay in 1893, in its wider historical and environmental context. Drawing on archival research, the article contends that New Australia was founded as part of a broader settler colonial deforestation frontier in the southern Atlantic Rainforest. Despite the utopian socialist ideology of its […]