Description: Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government’s practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to […]

Description: Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious new evidence and an enticing narrative, describing a process of settlement in the American West that depended on the nurturing connections of reproductive caregivers and the authority of mothers over birth. Economic and cultural […]

Description: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I’ve Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this […]

Abstract: In 2015, The Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRC) was released in Canada, outlining 94 Calls to Action which, include pushing Canadian post-secondary institutions to ethically engage Indigenous communities and knowledge systems.1 This paper seeks to respond to the TRC by offering a spatial analysis of the differences, broadly conceived, between Indigenous and western ontological structures. We consider these differences […]

Abstract: The removal of monuments and the renaming of places have become major flashpoints of social and political contestation over the past decade. In the United States, there has been a surge in the removal of neo-Confederate statues, monuments and place names as well as a dethroning of statues of Christopher Columbus and other prominent […]

Abstract: In this chapter, we draw on the Deathscapes: Mapping Race and Violence in Settler States project to disclose the bloody foundations that underpin colonial statues and monuments. As the Deathscapes project evidences, these bloody foundations are, in the context of settler states, daily exposed to view through the embodied racialised deaths of Indigenous people. In its […]

Abstract: This chapter is based on a post-colonial reading of contemporary politics and an appreciation of the long struggle against colonialism that can be traced back centuries. It contextualises the current ‘colonial memorialisation’ struggle as a component of that larger struggle, which is evident to me will continue for as long as the colonial political, […]

Abstract: Settler-colonies are places of tremendous inequality and violence. Yet, at the same time, settlercolonies are also places where elected institutions flourish. What explains the origin of institutionsseemingly founded on ideals of equality and liberty amidst systemic violence and hierarchy? Thisdissertation examines the process of elected representative institutional formation in settlercolonies through comparative-historical analysis drawing […]

Abstract: The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) is highly invested in maintaining a façade of adherence to International Law (IL) in Israel’s continuous occupation of the West Bank, and in mitigating the contradictions and complexities in Israel’s implementation of this law. Our paper proposes a unique legal-geographical perspective to the analysis of this dynamic, […]

Excerpt: In colonial regimes, dominant conceptions of private property developed alongside racial hierarchies.