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 […]

Abstract: Organised under the aegis of New Zealand Premier Richard Seddon (1845–1906), the 19061907 New Zealand International Exhibition was held to demonstrate the colony’s progress to the world and its achievements as a ‘Better Britain’. There were many different facets to the Exhibition, however this thesis examines the British Art Section, an art exhibit arranged […]

Excerpt: White frontier heroism was defined through opposition to racial and cultural otherness throughout the process of settlement. Kyle T. Mays establishes that “the foundations of the United States, its current power and wealth, were built on enslaved African labor and the expropriation of Indigenous land” (19). This position raises the question of how to […]

Abstract: Does decolonisation in the contemporary liberal settler colony depend on the delegitimation of the prevailing political order? If, politically, decolonisation requires more than Indigenous autonomy within the context of a sovereign settler state, other associated rights and statuses, recognition of historical injustice, and programmes to address continuing inequality — which is to say, if […]