Abstract: Despite Chile’s recent failed attempts at constitutional reform, Indigenous land rights are (still) governed by the much-contested Indigenous Law of 1993 (Law No. 19,253). The land restitution program foreseen in this law is extremely slow and controversial, and the establishment of Indigenous territories (by ordinary law) appears far from reality. At the same time, […]

Abstract: The most prominent philosophical defenders of indigenous rights have been egalitarian liberals such as Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten. Libertarians, on the other hand, are often critical of such arrangements. Given the prevalence of this view, it is natural to think that no form of libertarianism is compatible with a distinct set of legal […]

Abstract: This chapter highlights the intensified impacts of settler colonialism and human-induced environmental crises on Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, with a focus on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), coastal regions, and wetland areas. It examines the multifaceted challenges these communities face, including land disputes, deforestation, large-scale development projects, and biodiversity loss, all of which are […]

Abstract: This manuscript provides a viewpoint on issues of settler colonialism in relation to natural playground contexts. Reflections emerged while conducting a multi‐site study on natural playground development and usage in Calgary, Canada. One site was situated in a large urban green space, Confederation Park, and illustrated the materialization of green spaces as a settler‐colonial […]

Abstract: Jennifer Lackey has recently argued that victims of gross injustices and epistemic harms not only have a right to know, but also a right to be known, i.e., to share and have their experiences heard. This right is associated with a duty to provide epistemic reparations, notably in bearing witness to victims. The epistemic […]

Abstract: Undermining the ability of Palestinians to feed themselves is central to the genocide underway in the Gaza Strip, resulting in mass famine and forced starvation. Israel is achieving this aim through territory grabbing across Gaza’s farmlands and fisheries on one side, and through control and weaponization of humanitarian aid on the other. Food sovereignty […]

Abstract: As a debt of remembrance, I begin by extracting seven versions of Ross Gibson (1956–2023) from my heavily annotated copy of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland. I then draw on Seven Versions to illuminate a no-go zone film, Jindabyne and a badland film, The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson. Both films […]

Excerpt: For those unfamiliar with the series (or the film it is loosely adapted from), it features seven gunslingers from various backgrounds who are, in the pilot episode, hired by an Indigenous village to protect them against former Confederate soldiers who are threatening them. They eventually settle in a local town, employed as law enforcement officials […]

Abstract: This dissertation highlights the role of early Black American women settlers in creating a distinct Americo-Liberian identity that served as the centerpiece of Liberian independence. Most histories of colonization focus on male settlers and consider settlement a transplanting of American culture in Liberia. The women of the Waring, Lewis, and Roberts family established new […]

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