Abstract: This study examines how Darcie Little Badger portrays the aftermath of settler colonialism on the Lipan Apache people in Elatsoe, A Snake Falls to Earth, and Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe, and how these novels engage in the process of biskaabiiyang. Employing close reading textual analysis using settler colonial studies and Indigenous futurism, the study reveals […]

Excerpt: At the core of discussions of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructures are land and property ownership, the understandings of which are shaped by settler colonialism in the United States and administered by a constellation of global settler state formations. Settler colonialism names an orientation to the world and life; it is a way […]

Abstract: Locke has become a central figure in postcolonial theory in ways that at times overextend the context and content of his writing. This chapter seeks to explain this appeal by examining recurring metaphors, lacunas, and linguistic manoeuvres in Locke’s writing, arguing that they capture essential elements within colonial practices or imaginaries. Through such a […]

Abstract: This paper examines the governance of urban aesthetics by studying the curatorial and regulatory bodies behind public art productions in settler colonial cities. I demonstrate how public art regulations – through mural ordinances and city permits – (re)produce settler colonial agendas and perpetuate Indigenous invisibility. Drawing from in-depth interviews with artists, urban planners, city […]

Abstract: This essay explores how recipes for hasty pudding circulating in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world are part of the settler history of colonial extraction. Hasty pudding recipes informed not just Joel Barlow’s republican mock heroic poem “The Hasty-Pudding” (New York, 1796) but also the recipe culture of those who remained loyal to Britain. Recipes […]

Excerpt: Conversations across early American and early Indigenous studies—fields historically preoccupied with different questions, canons, and frameworks—have recently engaged in difficult methodological questions: How might we continue to reconceptualize the “archive” (or the “text”) to move beyond the codex, what Choctaw scholar Megan Peiser calls a “colonizing institution . . . predicated on written and […]

Abstract: This article explores the forms and functions of the ‘predatory imagination’ in nineteenth-century U.S. settler culture, a semiotic nexus where distinctions between ‘civilization’ and ‘savagery’ intertwined with ideas about (specific forms of) animality and human-animal difference in a way that reflected the concerns of an aggressively expanding settler nation attempting to resolve its ‘Indian […]

Abstract: This conceptual paper seeks to outline how hospitality discourses have been used to rationalize and justify policies of ethnic cleansing and displacement within the occupied and besieged Palestinian Territories, focusing particularly on the comments and social media activity of the president of the United States Donald Trump. Drawing on a post-qualitative inquiry approach, this […]

Abstract: Colonial settlement was a spatial strategy through which territory was claimed, governed, and made extractable. Conventional origin stories of planning in the Anglosphere emphasize social reform in nineteenth-century industrial cities, yet frontier town-making was also central to the development of planning instruments. This paper examines Queensland’s colonial frontier as a key site where subdivision […]

Abstract: This thesis examines the transformation of the Great Lakes borderlands in the 1860s and 1870s, a period in which overlapping claims to sovereignty gave way to the consolidation of centralized settler states in the North American West. In the western Great Lakes Borderlands–encompassing present-day Minnesota and Manitoba–Indigenous nations, the United States, and the British […]