Abstract: Refugee resettlement in Canada does not occur in a vacuum rather through processes shaped by global relations of power such as imperial intervention, various colonialisms, extractive economies, racialized citizenship, hegemonic border controls, and neoliberal governance. When refugee children are forced out of their homelands, they are already enmeshed in some of the interlocking geo-political […]

Excerpt: From the moment we first started generating images with Midjourney in the context of the AIAI project, we noticed that the images evidenced a great many preconceived ideas about Indigenous Peoples, representing them in ways that are over-simplified and that do not draw on the cultural specificity of the communities in question. This bias […]

Abstract: This dissertation investigates how advancing media⎯print, radio, and television⎯became an integral part of Indigenous political resistance and cultural revitalization in the decades following 1960. This period witnessed an increase in global communications technology. As technologies developed and contributed to globalization, they were utilized, adapted, and re-worked by Indigenous peoples and other colonized peoples to […]

Abstract: This dissertation is a literature-based, interdisciplinary philosophical inquiry that examines whether, in light of Canada’s human rights obligations and ongoing cultural genocide identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, creating meaningful spaces for Indigenous musics and worldviews within Canadian society […]

Abstract: This article examines how food and waste function as central markers of settler colonial power in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Through an analysis of alimentary-excretory practices, the article argues that embodied distinctions surrounding eating, waste, and bodily management are crucial to the imposition and legitimization of settler colonial authority in […]

Abstract: To explore the frictions of decolonising Memory Studies, a field which originated in Europe and has been driven, in part, by the study of Holocaust memory, I turn to Documenta, a prestigious German art festival. Held in Kassel in 2022, documenta fifteen marked a transition in the festival’s history, for the first time curated […]

Abstract: Memory is essential to Indigenous knowledge sharing, as it shapes how history, culture, and traditions are understood and maintained. Yet, the history of Settler Canada has been in contention with Indigenous understandings of the past as settler-colonialism has worked to minimize historical truths and create alternative and often blind histories. The Truth and Reconciliation […]

Abstract: The article examines the profound and multifaceted consequences of the relationship between Palestinian identity and the expansion of Israeli settlements through a qualitative case study of Deir Nidham Village in the central West Bank. Often described by its residents as “the village that does not breathe,” Deir Nidham has experienced a history of dispossession, […]

Abstract: The Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawà:ke have been subjected to the Indian Act since 1889. Its forceful imposition has eroded ancestral governance systems and severed vital threads of cultural and social life. In 2024, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke—the Indian Act band council—declared its intent to restore traditional governance and unilaterally end the Indian Act’s reach […]

Abstract: The expansion of Universalist Christianity in the United States was closely linked to the broader process of westward migration that transformed the American religious landscape during the nineteenth century. Emerging from the theological developments associated with James Relly, John Murray, and Elhanan Winchester, Universalism evolved from a predominantly New England movement into a frontier […]