Excerpt: Over the course of the 1990s, the reception of Almanac of The Dead’s (1991) strident decolonial allegory propelled Leslie Marmon Silko to the center of debates about the future of both liberal democracy and Indigenous sovereignty struggles. This article revisits how and why Silko was cast as a representative of liberal multiculturalism by scholars who […]

Abstract: This chapter examines responses in the Australian colonies to France’s penal colony (bagne) in New Caledonia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Situating the concern in Australia about the presence and proximity of French convicts in New Caledonia within both the history of the Australian colonies’ own origins as settlements of transported British […]

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Abstract: Of the various forms that Western imperialism has taken over the last six centuries, settler colonialism has been the most destructive and prone to the genocide of indigenous peoples. Although in most settler colonies the initial impetus for conflict came from colonial and metropolitan states, in several notable instances exterminatory violence was driven by […]

Abstract: The Iron Ore Company of Canada announced the closure of its mine in Schefferville, Quebec, on 2 November 1982, throwing the town’s future in doubt. Its slow agony made headlines across Canada for weeks, months, and even years. This article considers how the politics of deindustrialization got bound up in the national project of […]

Abstract: This article examines the work of Alma Whitaker—feminist, reporter, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 1910 to 1944. Widely known in her time but almost totally forgotten today, Whitaker’s work illustrates the formative role of newspaperwomen in the expansion of Los Angeles in the early twentieth century, and specifically in promoting a settler fantasy […]

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this thesis is to explore what thematic frames national, regional, local, and Indigenous newspapers have used when reporting on the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States. Specifically, by analyzing the newspaper articles which were published in six different newspapers, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles […]

Abstract: Racialized narratives of academic ability, perpetuated by ahistorical interpretations of student performance data, have led to educational policies focusing on short-term solutions, instead of the ongoing legacies of racism and settler colonialism. The aim of this paper is to show how the racially defined achievement gap operates within the structure of settler colonialism. Informed […]

Abstract: Violence risk assessment tools are used around the world with people who have committed crimes to determine the risk factors that may have contributed to their offending. These tools can carry great consequences for people’s liberty. Violence risk assessment tools are also used with Indigenous people who are overrepresented in the Canadian justice system. […]

Abstract: This article engages a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of the process of subjectification that produces the settler as a social subject. The analysis is rooted in a reading of Lacan through Deleuze and Guattari, which the article argues may offer an alternative nonessentialist and more historically grounded analysis. Specifically, this article attends to the role […]