Description: Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many […]

Excerpt: Although COVID-19 affects everyone, its impact on the Navajo Nation, which calls COVID-19  Dikos Nitsaaigii Ndhast’eits’aadah, or “Big Cough 19,” is more profound. Efforts to contain and stop the virus include the three W’s: wear (masks), wait (social distancing), and wash (handwashing). These three actions become onerous for people without the financial resources to purchase […]

Abstract: After the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlement and intensifying with the 2008–2009 Israeli War on Gaza, the border town of Sderot and its surrounding landscape became, for American Christian Zionists, a pilgrimage landscape and therefore a sacred space as it was performed as an event site portending the apocalypse. Christian Zionists interpreted the […]

Abstract: This article explores how settler colonialism intersected with the UN’s training centre at UBC, which is built on the territory of the Musqueam people. It uncovers what the Centre’s origins and activities say about understandings of development after 1945, especially the Canadian dimension of this global history. Specifically, it interrogates development’s pedagogical dimension. Situating […]

Abstract: This article analyses the recent closure of the Uluru climb in the settler colonial context of Australia and reflects on (im)possibilities for doing tourism otherwise to practices and logics of coloniality. Tourism at Uluru is embedded within settler colonial map-making, privileging supply side models of consumption at the expense of the Anangu Traditional Custodians. […]

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Abstract: This essay examines two monuments: the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa and the American This is the Place Monument in Utah. Similar in terms of construction and historical purpose, both employ gender as an important tool to legitimize the settler society each commemorates. Each was part of a similar project of cultural recuperation in […]

Abstract: This dialogic autoethnography, in which the authors reflect on their experiences as settlers who have researched with Indigenous communities, maps four paradoxes settler researchers need to negotiate in decolonizing research. The termsettler fragility signals a settler positioning of innocence in colonization, which simultaneously recenters colonial power to secure settler futures. In research, settler fragility […]

Abstract: Teaching students to think about white settlers’ and racialized non-black people’s complicity in settler colonial violence can still be an instance of settler-centric pedagogy underlined by the trope of the ‘dying Indian’. Through reflecting on my teaching of a well-circulated article by a racialized scholar, I discuss how, despite my intentions, my orientation toward […]

Description: Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested […]