Abstract: Kenneth Cook is perhaps a lesser-known name in Australian literature. While Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film adaptation of Cook’s debut novel Wake in Fright (1961), picturing the descent of a Sydney teacher into madness in a remote outback town, has achieved cult status among cineastes, the book itself has received relatively little attention. Apart from […]

Abstract: Under what conditions do the distributional legacies of settler colonialism persist? Much of past research has operated under the assumption that differing colonial experiences constituted critical junctures whose effects have more often than not endured. Analysts have pointed to settler colonialism as a crucial determinant of present levels of income inequality in former settler […]

Abstract: How can researchers in settler colonial states align their research and partnership practices to demonstrate reciprocity and solidarity with Indigenous communities and nations—especially researchers with dominant identities and training? This self-study investigates a recent research-practice partnership focused on Native curriculum implementation in schools on Coast Salish Lands (Washington State, USA). Using research memos, journals, […]

Abstract: My dissertation, “Territorial Conflicts, Bureaucracy, and State Formation in Chile’s Southern Frontera 1866-1912″ is an agrarian and social history of settler colonialism in the Araucanía region of Southern Chile beginning in 1866 when Chile established its first colonization laws and concluding in 1912. Using national, regional, and local archival sources as its foundation, it […]

Abstract: In Part I of this essay, I surveyed the global phenomenon of settler colonization through time, paying attention to its nature, ideology, processes, and praxis. Flowing from that, I applied the knowledge gained from the study of settler colonization to the settler colonial experience of Nigeria as initiated by British colonialism, particularly the British […]

Excerpt: Though the indigenous were thus intended to be useful, they were also subject to a logic of elimination, intensified by further Portuguese settlement over time (especially after Brazil’s independence). This might feel like a paradox or a flaw in the colonisers’ plan, as Barickman suggests. Nevertheless, Wolfe’s explanation of “(structural) genocide” helps reconcile these […]

Abstract: This chapter considers the ways in which mid-century modernism configured Southern California’s leisurescape by implicitly articulating and reproducing terra nullius as a colonial mode of territorial management. The relation between the Reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the modern development of Palm Springs, California is historicized in connection with the […]

Abstract: In the US–Mexico borderlands, coalitions have formed to successfully thwart attempted amplification of militarisation in the region. However, in the borderlands, where migrants are criminalised and the colonisation of Indigenous lands and life is ongoing, coalition building is complicated due to the distinct positionalities of anti-militarisation activists. This paper analyses solidarity from the perspective […]

Abstract: Drawing on Black and Indigenous intellectual traditions, this article applies racial capitalism and settler colonialism as twin frameworks essential for understanding gentrification in a city whose growth is predicated on historical storytelling. Challenging the hegemony of neoliberal and colorblind urbanisms, it is argued that the longue durée world system of racism is always already structuring capitalism […]

Abstract: The ‘archival turn’ has prompted historical scholarship to reevaluate the positivist sourcing of knowledge, especially in contentious contexts. The archive’s configuration, and attendant mechanisms of classification, apprehension, and attribution indicate colonial governance just as much as inscribed histories and discourses. Scholarship on the Zionist movement in early-20th century Palestine has been slow to adopt […]