Abstract: This commentary explores how settler colonial cities have been built upon the erasure and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on Chomsky’s observation that Indigenous communities lead global environmental protection efforts despite being dismissed as ‘backward,’ I argue that colonial urban planning has systematically ignored Indigenous spatial knowledge and relationships with land. Existing city […]

Abstract: “Epistemophilia”—a love of knowledge—is key feature of colonialism. It includes the belief that knowing more is better, that knowledge should be shared, and that knowledge is separable from context. Settler-colonial education systems are in part systems of epistemic extraction and theft that buttress material and relational extractivism, attempting to steal land, relations, and practices. […]

Abstract: This paper focuses on the internal tensions of Whiteness in the dual settler colonial contexts of Quebec and Canada through the relationship between the province as a White, francophone minority/majority and White anglophone Canada. Whiteness in Quebec is mediated through its settler colonial history, language and complexity of its minority/majority position to create an […]

Abstract: Municipalities in settler-colonial countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are placing new emphasis on improving Indigenous-settler relations and addressing colonial injustices in the city, in discourse if not in practice. In Canada, municipalities increasingly identify comprehensive planning projects that define future change and (re)development in the city as a space through which […]

Abstract: Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical short story collection American Indian Stories presents the coming of age of an Indian girl. The protagonist finds herself in a cruel Indian-hating boarding school system that continuously ‘disciplines’ her Indian self. However, going back to her mother in the reservation land, she regains a sense of belonging leading her to be […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines how tribal–state policing agreements operate as technologies of settler-colonial governance on the Green Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. Although these agreements are publicly framed as pragmatic solutions to jurisdictional complexity and as exercises of tribal sovereignty, I argue that they simultaneously extend state authority, constrain Indigenous autonomy, and reproduce racialized spatial […]

Abstract: This article examines how three nineteenth- and twentieth-century philanthropic organizations– the British Aborigines’ Protection Society (APS), the American Indian Rights Association (IRA), and the Australian Association for the Protection of Native Races (APNR)functioned simultaneously as opponents of colonial violence as well as instruments of colonial governance. These groups were vociferous advocates for Indigenous rights […]

Abstract: We develop a theoretical foundation for understanding the social drivers of biodiversity loss through an analysis of the pollination crisis. Together, settler colonialism and capitalism have disrupted the relationship between insect pollinators and the flowering plants that they pollinate on a global scale, what we call the ‘Anthophilic rift.’ Settler colonialism reshapes ecologies while […]

Descriptoion: Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony where efforts to foster well-being can simultaneously undermine distinct Indigenous societies. This book examines the prominence of “Indigenous healing” in Canadian public discourse through a historical and ethnographic lens. It focuses on late twentieth-century Indigenous social histories in Treaty 3 territory and cities in […]

Description: Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, this rocky section of Ontario underwent a profound transition from Indigenous homelands to a settler community and a part-time playground for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers. But what were the consequences for those who lived there year-round? As the late […]