Abstract: Decoloniality and decolonization are epistemic and active processes that disrupt the coloniality of power. This article centers the voices of a Palestinian father, and his son, Hassan, in their opposition to settler-colonial dehumanization. The defacing of 15-year-old Hassan occurred when he was shot and killed by the state apparatus, taken from his family and […]

Abstract: This essay focuses on the problem of the decolonization of Crimea within the context of the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war. Both authors agree that the decolonization of Crimea involves a complex intellectual challenge for Ukrainian society and for the rest of the world. For centuries Crimea was a settler colony of the Russian Empire and […]

Abstract: In settler colonial states like Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, water for the environment and the water rights of Indigenous Peoples often share the common experience of being too little and too late. Water pathways have been constrained and defined by settler colonialism, and as a result, settler state water law has both a legitimacy problem, […]

Excerpt: This conflates the history of perceived mutual agreement of US imperialism, along with other colonial actors, in the Pacific, and explicitly contrasts the US’s stance on protection and defense against China. Harris imagines a mutual relationship between US empire dependent on what Jodi Kim discusses in Settler Garrison as the “China threat discourse,” which “can be […]

Abstract: This article presents the Hudson Valley of New York State as a broadly relevant case study to explore how the introduction of non-native species has historically served as a crucial facet of US (and pre-US) settler colonialism, undermining the more-than-human worlds tended by Native peoples and replacing them with assemblages of species conducive to […]

Abstract: The Menominee have long tapped into and cocreated energy flows within ecosystems, particularly with maple trees. The United States, however, seized nearly all Menominee land, transforming ecosystems into industrial systems, including for maple sugar. Moreover, thermodynamic ideas of energy rendered more-than-human beings into “the ability to do work.” Many Menominees, however, have understood “energy” […]

Abstract: This dissertation argues that settler colonialism unfolded in various North American Wests through a clash of prophetic visions, each of which expressed fundamentally different modes of relationality. Through two case studies—the “Old Northwest” of the early nineteenth century Ohio Valley, and the “new” Northwest of the Columbia Plateau region later in the century—I explore […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism has been described as a structure, not an event, meaning it is sustained over time through discursive and material means. As settlers began to monopolize lands, new ecologies were built from Indigenous ones, transforming the landscape but also human relations with lands. I expand on Kyle Whyte’s concept of settler ecologies to […]

Abstract: In this paper, I analyse Shaheer Tarar’s artwork Jack Pine (2019) to question how settler colonialism is produced and reproduced through surveillant visualisations of the land. Specifically, I explore how Tarar’s representations of surveillant images of the land critically engages with historical and ongoing narratives of white settlement in the Canadian territory. As such, I ask: […]

Abstract: This article examines Canadian cultural nationalism since Confederation through the lens of settler colonial theory, engaging with questions arising from this exercise. Along the way it discusses how settler colonial theory meshes with other theoretical perspectives, particularly nationalism theory. The main body of the paper is a historical overview of how settler cultural production […]