Abstract: In this article, I problematize sexual violence as a gendered and raced tool of colonial dominance. Though the theoretical framework of settler colonialism, I demonstrate how colonialism in the United States influences current discourse and policy around sexual violence. First, I explore the ways that colonialism positions women as victims and chattel of men. […]

Abstract: In this article, based on a keynote address delivered in 2019 at the conference on “Currents, Perspectives, and Ethnographic Methodologies for World Christianity” held at Princeton Theological Seminary, I discuss studying up and how scholars of World Christianity need to grapple with the ways Christianity has facilitated the work of and supported state policies […]

Abstract: This essay examines the significance of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory of ‘systematic colonisation’ within the transition from Caribbean slavery to settler colonisation to reveal the sequential relationship of these two imperial systems. In the context of industrialisation and social unrest, the anti-slavery movement performed an important purpose for Britain’s ruling classes by simultaneously accruing […]

Abstract: This thesis is an inexhaustive study of the creation of an economy of knowledge surrounding Hawaiʻi. Through settler imaginings a new psychic place coalesced around the fantasies of colonists. This place Hawaii is distinguishable from Hawaiʻi by the absence of the okina. The analysis begins at the end of the Nineteenth Century when settlers […]

Abstract: In surveys conducted between 2016 and 2018, First Nations found that only 36% of Americans “almost certainly” believe that the “United States is guilty of committing genocide against Native Americans.” In the United States, Indigenous genocide is largely denied, erased, set in the past, or framed as inevitable. This chapter builds upon Indigenous research […]

Excerpt: Northern Alberta is infamous for its oil sands extraction, a process that is accompanied by large-scale deforestation, habitat destruction, toxic wastewater productionand greenhouse gas emissions.

Abstract: Utilizing Fanon’s theories of psychic, social and embodied processes of racialization and racism, this article examines Toronto’s gay village as a site of queer settler multiculturalism and its impacts on Black and Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Two-Spirit and additional (LGBTQ2+) youth experiencing homelessness. I build on Fanon’s arguments of cultural alienation, the […]

Abstract: This paper argues that state-sponsored memorialisation is a critical enterprise in creating and maintaining a national cultural identity that softens or erases the ongoing process of death-making and dispossession wrought by settlers on the land and Indigenous peoples. Drawing on the work of Toronto-based Cree scholar Karyn Recollet, I further argue that this death-making […]

Abstract: This paper investigates urban life through the contested formation of settler colonial infrastructure. Trespassing nationalist narratives, it ‘follows the infrastructure’ across imperial space, time and struggle, illuminating the extraordinary power of cities both in and as infrastructural systems. It tracks a set of circulations through cities across Canada and beyond, to explore how the making of […]

Abstract: The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and cultural barriers—administrative and often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects borderline area inhabitants turning them into hostages of border management regimes and outside projections concerning their cultural and civilizational status, and the authenticity of forms of their culture representation. In the […]