Abstract: In this article, we question how Canada, so adamantly in favour of human rights and a rules-based order, can shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. We give examples of everyday Canadian institutions built on the genocide of First Nations and invested in genocide through contemporary weapons companies and […]

Abstract: This paper offers a novel take on settler colonisation as a process of appropriating space through pollution. In the context of Palestine and Israel, it illustrates how colonial pollution operates through various material forms that bind air to surfaces– stench, noise, darkness, smoke, fire, ash, and debris– hence constituting what is called ‘malevolent weathering’. […]

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Description: How the Indigenous People of Crimea Remade Themselves after Russian Occupation.

Excerpt: A defining hallmark of the second trump administration has been the extremity of the violence and threats it has directed at immigrants, especially those that are brown and Black. Masked agents in unmarked cars grab work-ers, parents, and students off the streets. Noncitizens languish in detention for purely political speech, while others are forcibly […]

Abstract: One hundred and seventeen days into Israel’s war on Gaza, the country’s minister of interior, rightwing settler Itamar Ben Gvir, delivered a speech over the podium of Israel’s Knesset. The main theme of this speech was the goat. This was dubbed by the media as the Goat Speech. While the media focused on the […]

Abstract: This article examines the idea of ‘citizen-subjects’ to highlight the contradictions between the modern state’s view of citizenship and the realities within an ethnocratic regime and settler-colonial context. By focusing on Palestinians in Israel, it explores how their citizenship status is systematically diminished to prioritize a Jewish national identity. The citizen-subjects framework shows how […]

Description: The volume Global Indigenous Horror is meant to elicit discussion. Contributions herein are an exploration of what Indigenous Horror is and to whom. Beginning with a preface by Cheyenne and Arapaho Horror writer Shane Hawk, the book is structured into four parts, and grounded in an Indigenous journey/ing approach to knowledge acquisition, as advocated by various […]

Abstract: This thesis resists the grand narrative of Canadian music history by examining Canadian choral works through a settler colonial theoretical framework. I specifically focus on the politics of translation and the relationship between text and music. I exemplify my methodology in this thesis with a brief discussion of R. Murray Schafer’s Miniwanka: Moments of […]

Abstract: This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick 1807–1845). When Grey became Under- Secretary for the Colonies in his father’s administration in late 1830, he turned his attention to emigration, colonial land administration, and slavery. […]