Abstract: This article examines the political, social, and relational consequences of artificial intelligence through an anti-colonial and Indigenous lens. Challenging claims that AI is neutral or inevitable, we show that it is embedded in settler-colonial, racialised, and gendered power structures. Across predictive policing, facial recognition, automated welfare, deepfake sexual violence, and embodied robotics, AI does […]

Abstract: This article seeks to reconcile two often-fractured understandings of Israeli settler colonialism: its intrinsic drive for elimination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and its ongoing expansionist strategy, which fosters dependency and ultimately ensures its gradual integration within the broader region. Using the water-energy infrastructural nexus in Jordan as a focal point, the article introduces […]

Abstract: This thesis is an inquiry into turquoise, a mineral primarily used as a gemstone in jewelry, and one of many different significant materials used in Southwestern Native American cultures and traditions. Despite the diversity of Native jewelry form and materials, jewelry set with turquoise generally overshadows other types of Native-made jewelry as a coveted […]

Excerpt: […] we propose that games are elemental. They embody the interplay of community, engagement, place, and relationality, serving as microcosms of the broader human experience. Games and storytelling are meaning-making processes that define our existence within natural and cultural environments. Role-playing games, like Dog Eat Dog, exemplify the elemental by immersing players in an existential […]

Abstract: Settler ecologies are the processes by which settler administrations imagine, construct, govern, discipline, and police nature, nonhuman animals, and Indigenous or otherwise marginalized communities. This article focuses on the role of law in constituting and advancing settler ecologies. It examines how legal regimes animate the colonial administration of nature across multiple geopolitical settings, including […]

Abstract: Palestinians have endured decades of Israeli settler-colonial violence and, since October 2023, genocidal violence in Gaza. This article develops reprocide as a broader analytic framework for understanding the full range of reproductive violence and reproductive destruction enacted within settler-colonial and genocidal projects of elimination. Reprocide encompasses direct and indirect attacks on reproductive capacities, reproductive […]

Abstract: The modern history of incarceration in the United States has often been told as a story about the state exercising carceral control over populations—often, male—deemed “criminal” and confined in brick-and-mortar penal institutions. Yet Indigenous women’s divergent experiences of incarceration expand dominant historiographical renderings of “human caging” and illustrate the longevity of this settler structure, […]

Abstract: This article highlights the history of the Madeiran diaspora in Southern Angola between 18 84 and 1974. More precisely, it seeks to reflect on the historical evolution of the settlement created by settlers from Madeira Island in the Huila Highlands, taking into account economic, social and political aspects, embodied in the formation of a […]

Abstract: With this paper we present an analysis of a group of white settlers almost completely neglected by historiography, the Catalans that migrated to Spanish Guinea (present-day Guinea Ecuatorial). We highlight how in spite of being rarely involved directly in the administration of the territory, Catalans were determinant to its economic evolution. Through a constant […]

Abstract: The Fairfax Resolves, invoking “the Laws of Nature and Nations,” are often portrayed as among the first statements of the colonists’ natural rights. The idea that civil law should be founded on natural law, however, dated back to Cicero and had long been invoked by colonial writers. Yet the Resolves played a pioneering role […]