Description: A study of the role of the Western film genre in Australia’s changing political and cultural landscape. Focusing on the influence of the cinematic Western in Australian cinema history, Outback explores how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social, political, and cultural contexts of their production, including the shifting emphases in the […]

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Excerpt: While film and photography have traditionally played a part in the extermination of Indigenous peoples and in their misleading representations, Indigenous filmmaking (also known as Fourth Cinema) activates a gaze that centers on Native perspectives, brings awareness to imbalanced filmic practices, and contributes to projects of sovereignty.

Abstract: Environmental devastation in occupied Palestine is a direct outcome of settler colonialism, which systematically dispossesses Indigenous Palestinians of land, resources, and sovereignty. Land confiscation, water diversion, and the deliberate destruction of native species constitute forms of ecocide that exacerbates economic inequality and worsen public health crises, including food and water insecurity, toxic exposure, disease, […]

Abstract: Geographical imaginaries are always in a state of struggle, rooted in logics of exception, dispossession, and radical possibility. This article connects the theoretical, methodological, and political uses of geographical imaginaries to geomedia, connecting their coconstituted entanglements in settler-colonialism and role in maintaining settler-colonial hegemony. In doing so, the author traces the ideological roots of […]

Abstract: This article examines the ongoing genocide in Gaza as a culmination of long-standing Zionist settler-colonial practices, arguing that the apparent internal divisions within Israeli society obscure a deeper structural unity. It contends that these dynamics are better understood as generative tensions within a unified colonial project. Drawing on genocide studies, settler-colonial theory and political […]

Abstract: In May 2020, global mining corporation Rio Tinto destroyed the historic Juukan Gorge rock shelters, promptinga public outcry, a government inquiry, and financial and personal sanctions for the company’s senior management,suggesting that the company’s actions were both surprising and shocking. We challenge Rio Tinto’s interpretationand reasoning of the rock destruction by drawing on theories […]

Abstract: This article examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. As Russian scientists and administrators encountered Central Asia’s continental climate, with its extremes of heat and cold, they developed theories that recast the steppe’s aridity from an immutable […]

Abstract: The decades of political unrest that erupted in widespread violence in Canada in 1837–38 were followed by efforts to implement responsible self-government, culminating with the federal union of the British North American colonies in 1867. This evolution of liberal imperial rule consolidated white male authority and legitimized England’s settler-colonial projects across northern North America. Many early […]

Abstract: This chapter discusses the exercise of the right to protest by Indigenous peoples. Specifically, it seeks to address the legacy of colonialism and the way in which it has shaped the act of protest by Indigenous peoples. The chapter focuses on historical examples from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Norway. Protests […]