Abstract: This article examines promotional material linked to Pocahontas, Child of the Forest (Edwin S. Porter, 1907) and Pocahontas (director unknown, 1910), placing them in the wider debates about colonialism, film exhibition, authenticity, and the role of film as an educational medium in the early 1900s. Since its emergence, cinema played a pivotal role in promulgating the ideas of […]

Abstract: This article contributes to the call for decolonial utopian work by examining one of the earliest utopian texts in the United States, Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Using a close reading drawing on colonial context, the author argues that Equality criticizes management of the Euro-American settler state. The story’s historical and philosophical content overwrites Indigenous bloodshed […]

Abstract: This body of cross-disciplinary scholarship illuminates the assertion that settler colonialism is not marked by a single historic moment of colonial conquest, but rather is structurally embedded. While settler colonialism is understood by many to centre on land specifically on territorial claims socio-legal analysis reveals that settler colonial power seeks to rework not only […]

Abstract: The growing interest in ‘During Conflict Justice’ (DCJ) in areas experiencing ongoing, sustained violent ‘conflict’ has further demonstrated the confluence between transitional justice and liberal peacebuilding approaches. Nowhere so is this more evident than in the case of Palestine-Israel where an ongoing process of Israeli settler-colonialism in historic Palestine continues, with the further spotlighting […]

Abstract: Thoughtful scholars have critiqued western yoga as a continuation of the process of colonization, upholding White supremacy and capitalism through a host of violent practices (Page). Yoga in the West has become synonymous with the predominantly White, cis-gendered, upper middle-class, able-bodied women who teach and practice asana in corporate studios in urban areas (Kaushik-Brown). […]

Excerpt: Eliza Hamilton Dunlop spiritedly identified her contribution “to the original literature of the colony”, when promoting her poem “The Star of the South” in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1842. Her new song was “an offering to the people of New South Wales”. She celebrated a newly formed society, populated by “sons and daughters of the […]

Abstract: This article examines the connection between Indigenous women’s bodies, their relationship to land and resistance to resource extraction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. First, I explore the processes and practices through which natural resource extraction is expanded into the Global South to demonstrate that Indigenous lands are produced as wastelands that only acquire […]

Abstract: This article explores the resurgence of Indigenous/Palestine solidarity during the Wet’suwet’en land sovereignty struggle in Canada that took place around the same time Donald Trump’s Middle East “peace plan” was released in early 2020. Historicizing this resurgence within a longer period of anti-colonial resistance, the article attends to the distinct historical, political-economic, and juridical […]

Abstract: This chapter brings the field of critical religion and Naomi Goldenberg’s vestigial state theory into conversation with critiques of settler colonialism and heteropatriarchy. The central question investigates how discourses on religion, race and gender that enable the liberal democratic nation-state to appear progressive can also function to occlude ongoing settler colonialism. To address this […]

Abstract: Canada has a foundational myth of a peaceful frontier, settled according to the rule of law. In this view Native people were protected by the Crown and the legal system and were peacefully incorporated into a now-thriving, multicultural society. This is in contrast to the many violent Indian wars of the neighbouring United States. […]