Abstract: In the ongoing occupation of Palestine by the State of Israel, the built environment is weaponised as a tool of expansion, control, and systemic oppression. This is visible in the West Bank, where illegal Israeli settlements encroach on Palestinian lands, with architecture operating as an instrument of colonial occupation. These settlements, initially temporal in […]

Excerpt: Aboriginal title has recently become the subject of intense national attention—and has attracted widespread misconceptions. Following the decisions in Cowichan Tribes v Canada and Wolastoqey Nation v New Brunswick, public commentary has frequently portrayed Aboriginal title as an immediate threat to private homeowners. In British Columbia, this misconception has included misinformation that has bordered […]

Abstract: In this thesis, I position the life histories and narratives of the Taiwanese (im)migrant diaspora in relationship to K’emk’emeláy, on unceded xʷməθkʷəy ̓əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ Lands. I draw on critical inter-disciplinary literature to position Taiwaneseness as a diasporic settler subjectivity which is produced and enacted upon as the urgent need to root […]

Abstract: Indigenous horror studies have highlighted the genre’s potential to foreground counternarratives to settler discourses. Close readings of Indigenous literary narratives may establish new imaginings of Indigenous cultures in our past, present, and future. They may therefore dismantle colonial hierarchies, and counter dominant settler-colonial narratives that continue to permeate contemporary American society. This thesis investigates […]

Abstract: The marked burial of the dead functions as a proprietary claim to land, and the law has legitimized this relationship since ancient times. Contributing to the literature in death studies and legal geography, this research provides a much-needed examination of this property relationship in a settler-colonial context and aims to understand how the law […]

Abstract: Migration has played a key role in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the founding, consolidation, and maintenance of the settler nation state of Canada. Immigrant acculturation and a history of the forced assimilation of Indigenous peoples continue to shape Canadian society, yet researchers only rarely consider these processes together (Bohaker & Iacovetta, 2009; […]

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Abstract: Nineteenth-century legal practitioners across the British Empire reasoned with ideas of premodern England, including feudalism, Anglo-Saxons and the Nor- man Conquest. This article analyses the practice of legal medievalism in colonial Australia in conversation with the work of Cambridge legal historian Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906). Along the way, it suggests a small typesetting error […]

Abstract: Marx’s theory of alienation posits that under capitalism, when labor is no longer directed to meet immediate needs but belongs to a master, then producers are estranged from their labor. Marx’s humanist theory is ever more relevant today when a new wave of subsistence producers, a majority of them Indigenous peoples, are being dispossessed […]

Abstract: In this article, we argue for the power of spite in building a BlackPalestinian antiracist collective driven by Indigenous sovereignty. Reflecting on key moments in our work together in Magandjin/Brisbane, we argue that spite generates sovereign action via its insistence on survival in spite of and to spite the colony. Because this form of […]