Description: This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based on original empirical fieldwork, the contributors to this book adopt interdisciplinary and decolonial approaches […]

Abstract: When Wet’suwet’en matriarch Freda Huson declared that ‘reconciliation is dead’ and called on supporters to ‘Shut Down Canada’, activists responded with a nationwide series of blockades and occupations. Many commenters, even those sympathetic to the Wet’suwet’en, rushed to defend the idea of reconciliation. Such responses fail to take the contributions this movement offers to […]

Excerpt: In Lucernal’s game Little Ruin, players explore the ambivalent space of settler colonialism through the story of Isobel, a teenager entangled in a civil war.

Description: Agents of overseas empires considers overseas colonisation as a process initiated by myriad private, individual and institutional actors, whose relationships with governments varied. Instead of regarding colonisation as a phenomenon orchestrated from a governmental centre on to overseas territories or governed in accordance with the ‘centre–periphery’ model proffered by sociology, this collection demonstrates how […]

Abstract: The critically acclaimed film Minari (2021), directed by Lee Isaac Chung, has been recognized for its emotionally moving on-screen representation of a rural Asian American experience. Building on transpacific scholarship, the present essay examines Minari as a narrative of “minor settler grief,” an expression of grief by minor settlers that is closely tied to colonial and militarized aesthetics […]

Abstract: In Palestine, the eradication of the Indigenous population extends beyond physical displacement and destruction; it entails ecological transformations. Analogous to other settler-colonial contexts, nature is not merely annihilated; rather, it is molded to suit the colonizer’s intentions, resulting in modification. This article examines the eco-resistance by the Indigenous people of Masafer Yatta as an […]

Abstract: Monumental landscapes draw attention to the cultural politics of memory as well as the grammars of white supremacy and colonialism in their creation. In this paper, we extend this conversation, examining the entwined historical legacies of Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore. We highlight how critiques of the memorialization of white conquest can inform thinking […]

Abstract: This editorial critiques the existing literature on decolonizing global health, using the current assault on health in Gaza as a case in point. It argues that the failure to address the ongoing violence and blatant targeting of health facilities, personnel and innocent civilians demonstrates most clearly the limitations of an approach that is strong […]

Abstract: In this article, we first (re)trace the presence and absence of mining, metals and extractionary practices, what we call MMEs, from environmental and sustainability curricular frameworks United Nations’ Act Now Framework. Then, we critique the swelling markets, mentalities, and mastermindings used to develop and produce “clean” and “renewable” energy sources/solutions. As one of many […]

Abstract: It has been over 20 years since Donna R. Gabaccia’s seminal work Italy’s Many Diasporas was published (London & New York, 2000), an overview of the social, cultural and economic history of Italy’s various migrations. Much has changed since then, but this book remains a classic. In this roundtable, historians Lucy Riall, Pamela Ballinger […]