Abstract: Lucy Ellmann’s 2019 novel Ducks, Newburyport, which presents the internal monologue of an anxious mother of four, is a snapshot of American life in the Anthropocene, as the protagonist worries about her complicity in environmental degradation. The novel illustrates that the Anthropocene is a settler move to innocence that disguises both the role of settler […]

Excerpt: In 1929, 7,442,000 head of cattle were spread across the vast territory of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. By 1931, the number had dropped to 2,800,000 animals.1 By 1935, only 1,830,000 animals remained, nearly an 80% reduction.2 Over the course of the First Five-Year Plan, Kazakh livestock herds—once the wealth of nomadic pastoralists and […]

Abstract: This article focuses on a case study of one Japanese prefectural association and its monthly magazine to reassess the importance of prefectural associations (kenjinkai) beyond the diaspora communities in North America on which Anglophone scholarly focus has remained until now. It also returns an overlooked imperial dimension to Japanese language histories of domestic prefectural […]

Abstract: In March 2018, and again in January 2025, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) censured the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) for its failure to adhere to the profession’s ethical principles. IUSW members have been combat active during the ongoing Gaza genocide and the Israeli union has been stridently unwilling to ‘make […]

Abstract: Australia, Canada and the United States are settler-colonial federations comprising two types of federal units. The first are states/provinces: full, permanent federal partners, securely settler controlled. The second are territories. Historically, territories were “partners in waiting,” slated for federal incorporation once settlers achieved control of the jurisdiction, outnumbering and disempowering Indigenous peoples. The “rights […]

Abstract: Prevalent policy responses to food systems in protracted crises adopt a dichotomous lens of either humanitarian aid or economic underdevelopment, while ignoring the key role of colonialism and/or settler colonialism. Here we propose a framework to enable us to better comprehend food systems in protracted crises by paying attention to the role of colonial […]

Excerpt: Architecture in Hebron, West Bank, presents such a complex array of colonial strategies that the following analysis covers only partially. Since the establishment of Israeli settlements, military presence has gradually intensified to protect the latter from the alleged threat that Palestinian communities represent. Palestinian individuals are therefore subjected to a violent military regime that […]

Abstract: Municipalities in settler colonial states are currently engaged in seemingly conflicting projects of urban redevelopment and Indigenous-settler reconciliation, given the role the former plays in reproducing colonial dispossession. However, state-led reconciliation itself can also reinforce the settler colonial relationship through its selective recognition of colonial violence, Indigenous presence, and new pathways forward. In response […]

Abstract: This article examines homemaking as an important, yet understudied, response to settler colonialism. While there is growing interest in settler colonialism, defined by the colonial settlers’ drive to replace the Indigenous population, existing literature does not adequately address the response of its victims. This article highlights the resistance patterns of an Indigenous society facing […]

Abstract: This essay addresses the objectification facing the Central Valley region of California in the context of settler colonialism and of native ways of life which characterized it prior to settlement. The region was once famous for its wetland ecosystem and has since seen the entirety of its water rerouted for agricultural use. Environmental and […]