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Abstract: This review concentrates on the fiscal practices of settler colonial states and societies such as Canada and the United States. Synthesizing critical interdisciplinary literature, I characterize how the fiscal forwards settler political goals of civilization, dispossession, and possession of Indigenous people, nations, and territory. Emphasizing the sociality and material power effects of fiscal colonialism […]

Abstract: This article argues that Indigenous people were visible and agential participants in the American Left long before the explosion of Native activism in the 1970s. By situating Indigenous people in the interwar Communist Party, the article makes two major contributions to the histories of Indigeneity and socialism in twentieth-century USA. First, the article argues […]

Abstract: This Urban Pulse entry examines Donald Trump’s campaign promise to build up to ten so-called Freedom Cities on federally owned land if re-elected. Similar to new cities being built around the world, Freedom Cities would be selected through a competitive bidding process and aim to overcome perceived crises in present-day urbanism. However, this essay […]

Abstract: In 1924, the Italian ship Regia Nave Italia visited twenty-eight ports in thirteen Latin American states. Initially conceived as a commercial venture, it became a tool of Mussolini’s foreign policy led by Giovanni Giurati, a cabinet minister appointed as extraordinary ambassador.This article uncovers the colonial agenda of this voyage, arguing that a racialised vision […]

Description: This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct forms: a settler-colonial type, practiced by the Israeli state, that consists of “lordship” over land and people, and a decolonial type, […]

Abstract: This thesis critically analyses the discourse of the Israeli housing block (“shikun”) through the lens of “whiteness”, employing the Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Drawing on cultural representations of the shikun during two national housing projects, the “Sharon Plan” (1951-1961), and the “Evacuation-Construction” Plan (1998-2022), it examines how do the cultural representations of […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the role of white, colonial women in Canada’s Indian Residential School System in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Though a vital pillar of the schools throughout their history, women have largely been overlooked as key players in the attempted cultural eradication of Indigenous people in Canada. I argue that these women […]

Abstract: Settler-colonial archives have historically functioned as instruments of state power, perpetuating narratives that erase or marginalize Indigenous peoples’ histories, knowledges, and sovereignties. This study investigated the growing phenomenon of contemporary Indigenous artistic interventions within these institutions, framing them as critical acts of “curating dissent” that challenge the archival claim to objective truth. This research […]

Abstract: In 1937 a group of elite Pākehā men from Auckland were caught fishing on Rotoaira, a remote highland lake in which trout fishing was, uniquely, reserved for Ngāti Tūwharetoa. These men used their arrest to have the law reserving the lake for Māori fishers neutralized in court. While by the end of the following […]