Description: This book examines Nazi Germany’s expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly debate on the relevance of colonialism for our understanding of […]

Abstract: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine raised anew the issue of colonial nature of this war and intensified debates on decolonization of Ukraine and its history. Nonetheless, little has been done to discuss the history of the Crimea as of a Russian settler colony.1 The history of Russian presence in Crimea cannot be comprehensive without […]

Description: The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Guided by […]

Abstract: sraeli settler colonialism, in time, became highly linked to the idea of a state, culminating in an institution that defends the past, present, and future practises maintaining the relations between the “native” and “settlers”. Settler colonial ideas and practises sustaining binary opposition between the “native” and the “settler” are reproduced not only by Israeli […]

Abstract: The Australian National University’s inaugural Coral Bell Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy introduced philosophical perspectives that could underpin Indigenous Australian diplomacy. This piece uses the lecture as a starting point to discuss the possibilities and tensions of using a relationist ethos to pursue an Indigenous Australian Diplomacy approach within a survivalist system, drawing on the […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism shapes the governance of public land in what is now called the United States, contributing to eco-social disruptions for Indigenous populations. The Bears Ears National Monument was established in December 2016 in an unprecedented collaboration between the federal government and an inter-tribal coalition. Less than a year later, in December 2017, the […]

Abstract: My very first encounter with the term “settler colonialism”—a particular form of colonization in which colonizers violently expropriate land that is indigenous to other nations in an attempt to permanently displace and replace Indigenous populations—was in my junior year at Toronto’s York University in my first-ever Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) course. It was […]

Abstract: The authors examine the implications of understanding Palestinian mental health from a White colonial lens and offer ways in which a decolonial and liberatory approach to mental health is essential to advance Palestinian well-being. They offer ways in which to situate an understanding of Palestinian mental health within the context of the ongoing settler […]

Abstract: In 2016, at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, 400 Indigenous Nations and non-indigenous allies gathered in solidarity against the Dakota Access Pipeline to protect Mni Sose, the Missouri River. They became known as the Water Protectors. Against these defenders stood a militarized line of “money protectors,” paramilitary groups and state police who were indistinguishable […]

Abstract: In Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice, Azmi Bishara offers a broad overview of the history and current situation in occupied Palestine. In this article, I focus on the political (theo)logic that has shaped much of that history and continues to shape the militarism and settler colonialism Bishara describes with analytical depth. We might call […]