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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Abstract: This research provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of the transition toward a multiplanet civilization, with a special focus on Mars as humanity’s first major step beyond Earth. By addressing technological, political, economic, and ethical dimensions, it aims to inform policymakers, scientists, and the public about the feasibility, challenges, and philosophical implications of interplanetary […]

Abstract: This study critically examines transportation planning in the West Bank, revealing how it serves as a colonial mechanism of control and segregation, rather than a facilitator of urban growth and connectivity. Unlike cities that thrive as “living organisms” through integrated networks of roads and services, Palestinian territories are subjected to a meticulously crafted spatiotemporal […]

Abstract: The ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza has resulted in the widespread killing of innocent civilians, along with the destruction of homes, universities, and critical infrastructure—deepening a humanitarian catastrophe that reflects a broader settler colonial agenda. This study investigates the deliberate strategies of forced displacement engineered by Israel in Gaza, and the corresponding practices of […]

Abstract: This research examines how white hereditary organizations use historical markers in the Midwest—specifically Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri—to shape cultural memory and assert territorial control. Since the early 1900s, lineage organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution have influenced public memory by promoting the Lost Cause […]

Abstract: In 1981 the South African Springbok rugby team toured Aotearoa New Zealand, bringing the nation head-to-head with apartheid sport and providing a catalyst for mass protests to break out. While the tour is remembered as having divided the nation and holds an important place in national memory, the anti-tour protests were far from homogenous […]

Abstract: This research proposes using representative bureaucracy theory, in conjunction with settler-colonial theory, to better understand how a lack of meaningful representation within government may help us to understand why and how Native American’s have struggled to move from passive representation to active representation, even within organizations and structures that are ostensibly for the purpose […]