Abstract: This article explores the potential of TikTok videos as a method of relational engagement for Indigenous artists. The concept of relationality is the foundation of Indigenous artistic practices, through which Indigenous art is representative of an ongoing process of knowledge sharing and connection rather than a final product. Within this process, art is given […]

Abstract: Thirty years apart, Justices Brennan and Kiefel in the Australian High Court made deeply anxious remarks to define Indigenous identity and assert the power of the Court over Indigenous subjects and subjecthood in the Mabo and Love judgments. The notion that the breadth and depth of the Colonial legal system in Australia in 1992 […]

Excerpt: Canada’s settler-colonial history haunts the cities, towns, and rural areas of Saskatchewan as nowhere else. Here, where Métis leader Louis Riel was hanged, Idle No More was birthed, and the statue of John A. Macdonald drips (symbolically) with blood, the past is ever present. The largely rural province straddles the Great Plains to the […]

Excerpt: Edward Said responded emphatically to Michael Walzer’s Exodus and Revolution. Walzer had presented an argument that is part of a long-lasting political tradition I have called “the world turned inside out”: the attempt to constitute political regimes elsewhere as an alternative to embracing emplaced change. Walzer had deliberately or unwillingly mis-understood Exodus and its […]

Abstract: “What would we not have eaten?” Jean de Léry posited, remembering the undesirable animals and foodstuffs he consumed while starving on a ship in the Atlantic in 1558. This was a question rhetorically present in nearly all the starvation accounts in sixteenth century colonization narratives. When colonizers starved in the Americas during their attempts […]

Excerpt: The founding father of Midwestern history, Frederick Jackson Turner, is popularly remembered for his essay about the influence of the frontier in American history, but his deeper interest was in the regions which developed after the frontier era passed. Writing a century ago, Turner opined that regional “self-consciousness and sensitiveness is likely to be […]

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 […]