Abstract: This article examines how Russian-language press debate and official statistical reporting produced, disputed, and operationalized “surplus land” in the Kazakh Steppe and adjoining Turkestan territories. It analyzes 43 items reproduced in the Turkestanskii sbornik: 37 newspaper and publicistic texts and six Resettlement Administration studies published between 1885 and 1915. Rather than treating the archive […]

Abstract: ‘She is Eutopia, she is Hy-Brasil.’ It is a strange and luminous thing to say of Australia. Hy-Brasil was the phantom island of Irish legend, glimpsed intermittently through Atlantic mist and long associated with westward longing, prophecy, and imagined renewal. In Bernard O’Dowd’s long Federation poem ‘The Bush,’ however, this drifting Irish island is […]

Description: A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel’s destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and investigator. Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers […]

Abstract: In its 2024 Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice found that Israel’s ongoing presence as an occupying power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) is unlawful. The Court scrutinized the existence of illegal Israeli settlements in the OPT and found, among other things, that Israel prioritizes its settlers in the allocation of water […]

Excerpt: And we are in such a moment, at least in what is currently called the United States, in which there is not only no attempt to obscure settler capitalism’s fascist underpinnings, there is an aggressive effort to flaunt them. What we are seeing from the United States government and military right now is not […]

Abstract: Through the thread of a small pouch, this hybrid creative nonfiction essay weaves connections between memory, place, and political accountability. Moving between a harm reduction workshop on Treaty 1 and 3 territories, a childhood sewing lesson, a university classroom, a family DNA revelation, and a field course in Palestine and Israel, this essay explores […]

Description: Incisive, engaging writing on race and racism. ‘Where once I saw a view as I drove around the Taranaki coast along State Highway 45, I now see confiscated land from an invasion road. The creation story I used to subscribe to, the one in which hard-working people came here and settled the land, now […]

Abstract: On the thirtieth anniversary of the late historian Heather Goodall’s seminal and most cited work, Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770–1972, this essay canvases the central thesis and how this ran counter to dominant narratives about Aboriginal activism in south-eastern Australia. It asks how recognition of land rights, […]

Abstract: Consideration of the social positions and experiences of Indigenous people within settler colonial societies poses challenges to conventional understandings of race and class. Indigenous peoples, displaced and marginalized through the development of colonial structures, have also demonstrated remarkable resiliency, contributing in significant ways to the development of settler societies. While they often share similar […]

Description: This reader presents a carefully selected collection of primary texts, ranging from antiquity to the modern era, to explore the entangled histories of classical reception and settler colonialism. The “classics” here encompass texts and ideas from the ancient Mediterranean, the Roman Empire, and the Bible, which acquired canonical status in European literature. Settler colonialism, […]