Abstract: Australia led the world in passing legislation to establish free, secular and compulsory school systems. While school systems were not designed for the education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, Aboriginal families participated in state school systems, nonetheless. In the early 1900s, as new land acts drove closer settlement, the dynamics in some […]

Abstract: Background: People in recovery from substance use face unique challenges that can threaten the sustainability of their progress. These issues are often compounded in rural areas, where economic and geographic barriers limit access to recovery services. Indigenous Peoples face ongoing structural inequities that further challenge sustained recovery. More information about experiences in recovery in […]

Abstract: How should non-Indigenous teachers represent Indigenous culture and experience to their students? As a growing number of schools in North America require this content, non-Indigenous educators often struggle with how to present it accurately and respectfully, in ways that honor Indigenous sovereignty and cultural revitalization. In order to support their efforts, this chapter offers […]

Abstract: This chapter urges scholars who work at the intersection of environmental, multispecies, and racial justice to reflect more closely on the entanglements of human and other-than-human lives and the legal regimes that shape those entanglements in various settler colonial contexts. The chapter draws on and further develops the term “settler ecologies,” defining it as […]

Abstract: This chapter presents a critical autoethnographic inquiry into the author’s felt experiences as Hokkien/Hohlo, Han, and a Taiwanese international graduate student in the United States. In the ongoing realities of global racialization, racism, colonialism, and imperialism, studies have emphasized how self-examination and disclosure can contribute to anti-oppression and resist harmful narratives in academia. I […]

Abstract: Pastoral outposts are an effective and rapid tool of settler colonialism in the occupied West Bank. The paper provides a thorough analysis of these seemingly innocuous livestock farms, revealing them as a strategic instrument for expropriation of vast grazing areas, the fragmentation of Palestinian territories, and the displacement of local communities. The main limitation […]

Description: From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known “Indian wars,” the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to Native peoples for their land. Routinely inadequate, these payments were nonetheless pivotal because federal officials chose not to deliver them as a […]

Abstract: While concepts of remoteness have long conditioned the fabulation of alterity, remoteness is not a quality ascribable to distant places and strange peoples “out there”. No one is by nature “remote”. Building from this proposition, this article argues that a heritage of European aestheticization of the “far” north grew out of European ways of […]

Abstract: The core meaning of constituent power resonates with many historical traditions of Indigenous political thought and practice. Indigenous peoples continue to exercise constituent power through the (re-)constitution of political orders at multiple scales of governance, from the local to the global. These juris-generative practices are often grounded in Indigenous spirituality and treaty-making, affirming relations […]

Abstract: This article argues for the utility of a category I call ‘settler socialism.’ It traces the history of a series of intersecting nineteenth-century socialist projects that variously emerged in conversation with agrarian Republicanism and predicated the reorganization of gender and class relations on the eradication of indigenous people. This category allows us to see […]