Abstract: Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non-discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire. In this paper, we revisit what has […]

Description: This volume provides a historical context for the present escalation of hostilities between Palestinians and the State of Israel. It brings together interdisciplinary chapters written by international specialists in the field of interreligious engagement. It presents Jewish and Palestinian perspectives as well as the South African perspective regarding apartheid, international law, antisemitism, and the […]

* An Italianism: meaning the reinvention of the wheel Abstract: This chapter demonstrates that the CW-Condition shaped the dominant form of colonialism, namely “extraction colonialism” under a weak CW-Condition and “settlement colonialism” under a strong CW-Condition. A key conclusion is that the causal arrow in the association between the CW-Condition and colonialism runs from the […]

Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, following the conclusion of the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, settler society in Aotearoa undertook a political economic project aimed at intensifying and consolidating the local settler colonial project. In doing so, the 1870s were marked by metabolic explosion: the systematic, temporally compressed, and politically driven transformation of […]

Description: The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the ‘bourgeois Marx’ from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber’s early engagement with the standpoint of the rural worker — not his later study of […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the entanglements of colonialism, discourses of sexuality, and eroticism in the Southern Cone of Latin America through an interdisciplinary lens that includes historical anthropology of the borderlands, settler colonial studies, political theory, gender and sexuality studies, and psychoanalysis. It centers on the persistent colonial fantasies surrounding white women allegedly captured during […]

Abstract: In this paper, I explore how Indigenous women have historically been utilised within settler colonial frameworks, both ancient and modern. Interpreted through post-colonial theory and the lens of settler colonialism in colonial Canada, I examine how two ancient Indigenous Italian women—Camilla and Lavinia—are depicted and treated in Vergil’s Aeneid. Through their suitability and readiness […]

Abstract: This paper strives to illuminate the logics of Israel’s attacks on Palestinian higher education and historicises the ways in which Palestinian universities are significant sites of resistance to settler colonialism in the face of erasure. Since October 2023, the Israeli genocide in Gaza has taken the colonial logics of erasure to their most extreme […]

Abstract: This article focuses on two children’s novels: Little House on the Prairie (1932) by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and The Birchbark House (1999) by Louise Erdrich. Both works are set in the nineteenth century, specifically during the westward expansion, and during the forced displacement of Indigenous communities. This article aims to read the two novels […]

Abstract: This article conducts a microhistorical sociological analysis of land grab in the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn ‘Amer of northern Palestine during the British Mandate, examining purchase and coercion that functioned as mechanisms of settler colonization. Drawing on original archival research in local colony and national movement archives, it reconstructs how socialist Zionist settlers from the […]