Excerpt: Due in part to the rise of settler colonial studies as a field, theoretical and empirical understanding of the dynamics of capitalism incorporates racial capitalism, defined as a totalising, global historical process that has forged (and continues to shape) political, social and institutional relations. Together the four histories here under review demonstrate how far […]

Abstract: Drawing on insights from critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and critical whiteness studies, the authors examine how settler colonial and white supremacist ideologies may continue to structure their own family therapy theorizing andpractice, with particular attention to the concept and practice of sociocultural attunement (SCA) as applied to Socio-EmotionalRelationship Therapy (SERT). SCA was […]

Abstract: Rigid legal frameworks of genocide have threatened the concept’s applicability to protracted forms of violence. This had led many historians and sociologists to avoid scholarly discussions regarding the nuances of the definition (intent, consequences, types of violence) that would allow more states to be held culpable for genocide. However, historical and sociological approaches into […]

Abstract: This article examines the colonial genealogies of anti-immigrant discourse in France through the case of Éric Zemmour, one of France’s most influential nativist politicians. It tracks the permutations of nativist discourse in Zemmour’s writings, from his little-known 2008 novel Petit frère (Little Brother) to his best-selling essay La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot (France Has Not […]

Abstract: This chapter critically examines the complexities settlers of color face in Canada as they navigate settler colonial society, emphasizing that assimilation into ‘whiteness’ remains unattainable and problematic. The author argues that genuine Reconciliation is not a comfortable task to be checked off, but a challenging, ongoing process requiring accountability, relationship-building, and a decentering of […]

Abstract: This article builds on Juliet Nebolon’s conceptualisation of settler militarism (2024) to argue that settler militarism operates through the process of technification that emerges as a specific mechanism through which settler colonialism and militarisation seek to mutually constitute, legitimise, and conceal each other. By examining the Navajo Code Talkers program during the Second World […]

Abstract: In the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever‐present threat of racial difference. […]

Abstract: Drawing from the work of Robert Meister, this chapter begins with an analysis of the sources of the fictional basis of modern political community in the temporal imaginary of settler colonialism. The bulk of the chapter turns to Dirk Moses’s pioneering attempt to replace the concept of genocide with that of permanent security. In […]

Abstract: This study analyses Israel’s settlement policies in the Palestinian territories — which gained momentum in the late nineteenth century and were institutionalised with the establishment of the state in 1948 — as a long-term sovereignty project and a practice of demographic engineering. Whilst the existing literature predominantly addresses the settlement issue from the perspectives […]

Abstract: This article focuses on two children’s novels: Little House on the Prairie (1932) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and The Birchbark House (1999) by Louise Erdrich. Both works are set in the nineteenth century, specifically during the westward expansion, and during the forced displacement of Indigenous communities. This article aims to read the two novels […]