Excerpt: ‘One of the more intriguing elements of the research, to me at least,was the imperial frame within which many Australians located themselvesin the first half of the twentieth century. In some ways this research projectbegan with my puzzling over a proposal, made in the late 1920s by theAdelaide-based Aborigines’ Protection League, for a model […]

Abstract: Few American law classes actually teach the Insular Cases. This Essay argues that this is due to a profound lacuna in mainstream constitutional study—the failure to adequately confront the extent to which the United States from its founding has been a project of empire. In part, for this reason, the field tends to have little […]

Excerpt: Following the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the eponymous first-person narrator in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) is processed in a refugee camp on the US unincorporated territory of Guam before resettling in Southern California. There, he is invited by a famous Hollywood director, modeled after Francis Ford Coppola but identified only as “the Auteur” […]

Abstract: This paper investigates the similarities between the British experiences with settlers in other instances of colonisation, and mandatory Palestine. It addresses the extent to which British officials were aware of, and understood the aims, intentions, and methods of the Zionist movement, as well as the consequences for the indigenous population. Utilising primarily British documents […]

Abstract: This paper considers the processes of assemblage as an important aspect in studies of contemporary Australian settler colonialism. I explore how, what I am calling the Indigenous development assemblage, is made up of various government policies, actors, discourse, knowledge, legal frameworks and institutions, intersect and cohere with each other. I also explore how this […]

Abstract: Against the background of recent developments in Israel’s racial rule over the Palestinians, the Black Lives Matter protests, and in view of Israel’s declared intention to annex occupied Palestinian territories, this article theorises Israel’s permanent war against the Palestinians as first, state of exception, second, racial state, and third, settler-colony. The paper critiques the […]

Description: The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does […]

Abstract: This paper considers the emergence of white nationalist movements in Canada and their relationship to settler colonialism. How do ideas of Canada as a white nation, and fear mongering about white Canadians being “replaced” come to be so effective in a context in which white people have typically been the replacers themselves? While the […]

Abstract: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada helped to expose the trauma experienced by Indigenous peoples in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS), which were governed and run by government and church officials. In 2008, the Canadian government formally apologized for these residential schools. This apology was undermined, however, by a denial of colonial […]

Description: As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But beauty pageants were more than just frivolous spectacles. Queen of the Maple Leaf deftly uncovers how colonial power operated within the pageant circuit. In this astute critical investigation, Patrizia Gentile examines the interplay between local or community-based pageants and […]