Description: This volume offers examinations that help better understand how Israel’s genocide in Gaza was perpetrated, the role of global and regional orders in enabling the destruction, and ways to challenge erasure. Drawing on a range of perspectives—such as international law, anthropology, politics and international relations, media studies, feminist approaches, Indigenous and settler colonial studies—the […]

Abstract: Colonial misappropriation refers to the ways that settler colonial government agencies and institutions misappropriate Indigenous land, water, knowledge and bodies to defy national and tribal laws, extending settlement and solidifying ideologies that sustain difference. This paper examines one specific project – the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) – to show how O’odham relationships and […]

Abstract: This paper expands upon Patrick Wolfe’s ‘logic of elimination’ to propose a broader conceptual framework to understand the logics which underpinned European settler colonialism at large. Using the three Pacific voyages of British navigator James Cook between 1768 and 1779 as a case study, the geographic and ideological expansion of empire is positioned as […]

Abstract: This article untangles a set of early nineteenth-century histories of military expansion by the British East India Company into the Himalayas. It uses shifting approaches in graphical representation to address the curiously slow development of hill stations in these landscapes, alongside medical experiments by Europeans in a radical testing of altitude, bodily effects and […]

Abstract: This paper explores the foundational role of linguistic weaponisation in the establishment of settler colonial states. Through an interdisciplinary lens that synthesises socio-linguistic and settler colonialism theories, this paper reveals a theoretical development of the existing two-step process of settler state establishment. An extensive literature review of both socio-linguistic and settler-colonial theories explores four […]

Abstract: This article asks what kind of political subject is capable of confronting the ecological crisis. I argue that answering this question requires more than a new environmental politics. It demands a rethinking of hegemony. Engaging Latour and Schultz’s call for an “ecological class,” I show that their proposal fails to explain who can lead […]

Abstract: Erosion explores the operations of the white settler-colonial imagination on the physical soils and landscapes of American literature. While Caison’s archive is capacious and rejects strict periodization, her reevaluation of canonical early-twentieth-century texts from an Indigenous Studies perspective will be of interest to scholars working within ecocritical and regional studies frameworks, particularly those whose […]

Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to critical studies of rurality, coloniality, and gender by analysing a media narrative of an initiative for “saving the dying countryside.” The initiative we are focusing on is aimed at making families with children move to a rural village in the north of Sweden. We problematize how the media […]

Abstract: The 1878 arrival of the Argentine settler state as conqueror in northern Patagonia produced a singular problem for the state: the desert. A colonial imaginary of the absolute outside was now incorporated into Argentina, sparking a long-running territorial conflict that endures to this day. This thesis examines how enduring settler colonial processes shape territorial […]

Decsription: In Inland Empire, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió examines how modernist architecture and urban design structured US settler colonialism and capitalist hegemony in the twentieth century. Focusing on Palm Springs’s settlement upon the Agua Caliente Reservation and other reservations in inland Southern California, he shows how architecture became a key technology for governing empire at the […]