Abstract: The Russian Empire’s conquest of Southern Ukraine in the 1780s inaugurated an era characterised by the convergence of internal and external colonisation. This southward expansion granted Russia access to lucrative maritime trade routes and established a fertile agricultural frontier on Ukrainian lands. Contemporary observers likened the colonisation of the Black Sea steppes to overseas […]

Abstract: This paper compares Kant’s cosmopolitan right with the Kantian-rooted cosmopolitan proposals of Seyla Benhabib and Jacques Derrida, assessing their ability to support South American isolated indigenous groups’ claims to reject external intrusion in their lands, as a way of counteracting damaging settler-colonialist dynamics. It argues that despite Kant’s cosmopolitan right, which includes a problematic […]

Abstract: This paper interrogates the complex negotiation of anthropocentrism within the literary imagination of Patrick White. While his oeuvre is celebrated for its profound engagement with the Australian landscape, this analysis argues that White simultaneously employs and subverts the settler-colonial gaze, exposing the inherent violence of an anthropocentric worldview. Through an ecocritical and postcolonial lens, […]

A settler, who thinks like a settler and responds like a settler in the face of a settler crisis: access the Substack post here.

Abstract: This article examines the failure of the Bal-Gharbieh factory in the late 1950s, an industrial venture proposed under Israeli military rule, to show how ‘economic development’ operated as a tool of elimination through dependency. It argues that understanding the Palestinian economy in Israel requires integrating two frameworks: dependency theory, rooted in Marxist critiques of […]

Abstract: This article examines how different federal configurations can shape Indigenous autonomy across three cases: The United States, Canada, and Australia. While federations might seem better equipped than unitary states to share sovereignty with Indigenous peoples, they often entrench settler authority by internalizing Indigenous affairs, thereby limiting Indigenous self-government. Through a comparative historical analysis, this […]

Description: Enduring social inequalities in settler colonial societies are not an accident. They are produced and maintained by the self-repairing structural features and dynastic character of systemic racism and its intersecting oppressions. Using methods from diverse anticolonial liberation movements and systems theory, Structural Violence theorizes the existence of adaptive and self-replicating historical formations that underwrite cultures of […]

Description: On Our Own Terms contextualizes recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and an equally long and persistent tradition of Indigenous peoples engaging schools, funding, and policy on their own […]

Description: In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. Outing removed Native people from their communities and transferred them to white homes, farms, and businesses to work as menial […]

Description: “The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States,” Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the Garrison Dam as part of the New Deal–era Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program meant the […]