Abstract: The acquisition of Algerian lands constituted one of the foremost objectives of French colonial policy in Algeria. The colonial authorities did not confine themselves to employing various forms of coercion and violence to establish control over both the land and its inhabitants; they also resorted to expropriation and confiscation in order to deprive Algerians […]

Abstract: This paper critically examines production of knowledge about intracommunal violence and crime within Palestinian society in Israel, highlighting the relationship between power structures and epistemological frameworks. It centers the ontological relationship of power to settler colonial structures, interrogating how knowledge is shaped within domination and resistance. The paper identifies two paradigms: the first, a […]

Abstract: The analysis of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination and a focus on class are not mutually exclusive. This article outlines a protracted tradition of Marxian, Marxist, communist, and Indigenous reflection on colonisation and settler colonialism. It argues that this tradition is indigenous to Marxism.

Abstract: This paper examines American public land policy from the colonial period through the antebellum era, emphasizing the gap between formal policy and settlement on the ground. Early national policymakers faced competing objectives: generating revenue from western lands, promoting orderly territorial expansion and facilitating landownership among independent farmers. Federalists, and later Whigs, generally favored revenue-oriented […]

Abstract: This article offers a reading of Waubgeshig Rice’s speculative novel Moon of the Turning Leaves (2023) that explores its commitment to representing resurgent Indigenous futures and ecologies in the face of environmental catastrophe. Written within the convention of Indigenous futurism, the novel depicts Anishinaabe futurity amid anthropogenic environmental change, inherently linked to colonialism. Drawing […]

Excerpt from the introduction: For decades, scholarship in Indigenous Studies has grappled with using and interpreting newspapers, journals, and other forms of printed media. Questions of voice, authority, and purpose interweave with the instruments and articulations of colonialism. They also speak to misplaced and misleading binaries that situate Indigenous peoples at odds with modernity, in […]

Abstract: This chapter argues that violence against Indigenous women extends beyond interpersonal or physical harm to encompass institutional and epistemic forms of violence embedded within settler-colonial systems. Through empirical insights from the Stay in Your Lane and Make Us Count projects, we reveal how universities, funding bodies, and workplaces reproduce colonial hierarchies under the guise […]

Abstract: This article mobilises generation as a lens for theorising and examining the contingent and permuting character of settler colonial formations, with a specific focus on Gaza. Generation, we argue, calls attention to settler colonial rule as situated and embodied, and temporalities of survival and resistance as layered and heterogenous. We draw on 20 interviews […]

Description: A unique record of the Hawkesbury’s Frontier War and a powerful contemplation on memory and atonement. In this groundbreaking history of colonisation and frontier conflict in the Hawkesbury region, historian Barry Corr navigates the gaps and silences in the primary records to reveal settler amnesia, the cataclysmic nature of colonisation and the way history […]

Description: The field of genocide studies has experienced extraordinary growth during the past two decades. It stands today as one of the most diverse and interdisciplinary in the social sciences and humanities. Likewise, the field’s anchoring case studies have proliferated, from an initial focus on the Jewish Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and the genocide of Tutsi in […]