Abstract: At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Sierra Club, one of the most prominent environmental organisations in the united States, faced a polarising internal battle over whether to endorse immigration restrictions. Two dominant explanations have emerged to account for why immigration became such a flashpoint in an environmental organisation. one, advanced by watchdog […]

Description: Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that […]

Abstract: This article discusses Indigenous pedagogies and deep relationally Mohican playwright and educator Madeline Sayet’s Where We Belong. The play challenges the idea that Shakespeare is settler property, and it frames Sayet’s quitting her doctoral program and returning to her community as heroic. This paper argues that an Indigenous pedagogy should be based on love, […]

Excerpt: When Major General Giora Eiland penned his now infamous op-ed in Haaretz, referenced above, he sought to justify what has become known as Israel’s “surrender or starve plan,” or the plan to “ethnically cleanse” northern Gaza of its Palestinian population by invoking US military logic and doctrine on the practice of modern siege warfare. […]

Abstract: Aotearoa New Zealand is an increasingly diverse country that relies on social cohesion between Indigenous, settler, and migrant groups. As a result, migrant groups have called for the adoption of multiculturalism by the government, but this concept has not been examined from Indigenous perspectives. This dissertation examines the perspectives of Māori, the Indigenous peoples […]

Excerpt: ‘You know’, the studendt responded, ‘where we dress up like pioneers and line up at a park to run and stake our claim. Just like the 89ers’. Prior to my teaching in Oklahoma, I was vaguely familiar with the history of the Oklahoma Land Runs in the late 1880s and 1890s. The federal government […]

Abstract: In a settler colonial logic, where land constitutes a key resource for domination, the expropriation of tribes was often followed by their cantonnement. This strategy aimed to control them while freeing up space for French and European settlers. This article examines the implementation of this policy and its relationship with the establishment of the communal […]

Abstract: Story collection—the practice of generating art or research by gathering participant narratives and combining them into a single product—is a popular method used by socially engaged artists and art education researchers. This ethnographic case study germinated with the examination of a story collection artwork executed at a gallery in a co-governed Indigenous–settler community in […]

Abstract: In her response to my article, “Authenticity and Decolonization: On the Subversive Authenticity of Indigenous Resurgence,” Jordan Mullard invites me to regard subversive authenticity as a way of reckoning with the trauma of settler colonialism through a process of “becoming.” Conversely, Kurzwelly doubts the political and analytical efficacy of the concept, offering an anti-realist […]

Description: In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security began condemnation proceedings on the property of Dr. Eloisa Tamez, a Lipan Apache (Ndé) professor, veteran, and title holder to land in South Texas deeded to her ancestors under the colonial occupation and rule of King Charles III of Spain in 1761, during a time when Indigenous […]