Abstract: Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler-colonial Taiwan amid China’s colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance to Chinese irredentism across three cumulative stages: early-2000s symbolic […]

Abstract: The Riviera model mimics a densifying settlement along the coastline. In the lattice version, houses are built sequentially in empty sites with the constraint that every newly built house has at least one empty neighboring site. The distribution of clusters of adjacent houses does not obey a closed set of evolutionary equations, but the […]

Abstract: This chapter examines Wet’suwet’en resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline at Unist’ot’en Camp as a struggle against ongoing settler colonialism rather than a narrowly “environmental” conflict. Using Patrick Wolfe’s conception of settler colonialism as a structure and Gerald Vizenor’s “survivance,” we analyze how dual governance frameworks enable the Canadian state and industry to bypass […]

Abstract: Settler colonial praxis and the racecraft it engendered profoundly shaped the Carthaginian state, its society, and imperial trajectory. Perched against the geographic span of the Maghreb and the demographic heft of native Libyan and Numidian populations, Carthage exerted a tenuous dominance over its African hinterland. Peculiar aspects of Carthage’s mythic self-definition and constitutional system […]

Abstract: Scholarly research on frontiers has exploded over the last two or three decades. ‘Frontier’ is a word with a long history, and shifting meanings with complex relations to settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. As a geographical keyword, the frontier has been put to work to understand a variety of colonial and postcolonial settings in […]

Abstract: This paper attempts to contribute to thinking about the ethical responsibilities of the psychoanalytic profession in the context of the Gaza genocide. In a world inured to mass suffering, and paralyzed by a sense of impotence, the crisis in Palestine has had a unique impact on the collective consciousness and conscience, engendering unprecedented mobilizations […]

Abstract: This essay investigates the reception history of Joshua to determine whether the book has generated violence. After noting how recent scholarship has minimized the influence of Joshua on the medieval Christian Crusades, three uses of Joshua from the early modern period are explored: in the sixteenth-century Spanish Conquest of the Americas, the seventeenth-century Jamestown […]

Abstract: Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 posits that the nineteenth-century settler novel, far from being a generic and belated version of metropolitan fiction, can assist us in understanding complex, transitionary modes of settler and migrant cultural identification across and between multiple settler colonial spaces. It therefore seeks to disrupt linear understandings of Angloworld migration […]

Abstract: In the early twentieth century in North America, as Philip J. Deloria (Dakota) has observed, non-Indigenous women began to join the men who had been ‘playing Indian’ since the late eighteenth century. This paper considers the Wauneita Society, formed in 1910 as the women students’ organization at the University of Alberta in western Canada. […]

Abstract: Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” (1982) tells a story about the history of genocide that is often erased from settler histories about westward expansion and, because of its frank depiction of settler violence against Indigenous communities, the song has been cited as an influence by Indigenous bands like Testify and Testament and by […]