Excerpt: When Renee Davis, a Black Indigenous Muckleshoot woman living on Muckleshoot land, which is located near Seattle, Washington, was shot and killed by police, she was not in the act of committing a crime, she was not being arrested, and she was not running away to avoid being arrested. In fact, the reason police […]

Abstract: Mukherjee demonstrates how we can apply postcolonial theory— which is more commonly used to consider film and liter a ture’s geopolitical, racial imaginaries, and power structures—to board games and their own icons of power, especially given the medium’s fondness for exploration and conquest.

Abstract: This article offers a corrective for how the concept of settler colonialism is often understood and used in research and commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For more than a decade, the term “settler colonialism” has become central to scholarly and activist discussions about Zionism, the Palestinians, and their ongoing conflict – especially after October […]

Description: Tracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, this book pinpoints a new environmental paradigm that the author calls Nature Remade. Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry has taken up the wilderness mythologies that shaped one strain of American environmentalism over the last century. Calling this twenty-first-century environmental imagination […]

Abstract: This article explores the ways that critical representations of injustice are suppressed in the adaptation of comic book content to television and film. This analysis focuses on how the mainstreaming of Marvel X-Men comic books and related titles has produced watered-down representations of the political and social conflicts depicted in the original works. Centering […]

Abstract: This paper explores the reconstruction process in Gaza, which I see as dialectical, emphasizing its impossibility, at least on organic Indigenous terms. I suggest that any organic reconstruction of the native sector under Zionist settler colonialism is highly unlikely, especially when Western powers support such a regime and its pursuit of native destruction. I […]

Abstract: Surveyors in colonial Virginia were among the wealthiest members of society, with a social status rivaling that of members of the House of Burgesses and plantation owners. Many received large land grants from the Governor’s Council, which directly led to their wealth. We argue that allowing surveyors to acquire extensive land holdings advanced the […]

Abstract: Background: Public opposition to COVID-19 public health measures in the United States is often understood as a product of misinformation, political polarization, or distrust. Such explanations, however, obscure how histories of race, governance, and moral authority shape resistance to pandemic mitigation, particularly in settler colonial contexts. Theoretical Rationale and Methodology: Drawing on scholarship on […]

Abstract: While the companies behind generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, DALL-E, and Midjourney (Big Data) have amassed a flood of enthusiastic users and advocates, they have also prompted a tidal wave of criticism and legal action. Most critics and litigants focus their arguments on the theft, misappropriation, and blurring of […]

Abstract: In the summer of 1766, a group of Wappinger and Mohican diplomats sailed to London. There, they petitioned the crown to support their land claims against some of New York’s wealthiest landlords, who had amassed vast estates on the basis of fraudulent Native titles. These Native diplomats crafted a powerful narrative about their place […]