Abstract: We argue that Canadian immigration law, policy, and practice have historically excluded, race and disability, on a number of grounds, and that there is a common link between them, which is the perception of immigrants’ inability to adapt and integrate into a Canadian identity. The paper conducts a historical analysis of the Canadian immigration framework […]

Description: This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature. Examining the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Arctic Council, the authors demonstrate how seemingly benevolent […]

Abstract: Historians of the American West are faced with a periodization problem when they want to understand the specificities of the 19th century. Studying horses and buffaloes can shed light on new ways of analyzing the United States both as a decolonized and colonizing nation. The history of the American West is at its heart colonial […]

Deascription: This volume explores the history of eugenics in four Dominions of the British Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. These self-governing colonies reshaped ideas absorbed from the metropole in accord with local conditions and ideals. Compared to Britain (and the US, Germany, and Scandinavia), their orientation was generally less hereditarian and more populist […]

Abstract: During the 1820s, Colombia’s diplomats in London, Washington and Philadelphia worked hard to obtain diplomatic recognition for their nascent republic. Their efforts were also geared towards making Colombia attractive to European and North American settlers whose industry and work ethic would, they hoped, turn it into a civilised and modern Euro-Atlantic nation. The immigration schemes […]

Excerpt: If you meander through the center of Concord, Massachusetts, perhaps touring the habitations of celebrated local resident Ralph Waldo Emerson or retracing the perambulations of “Walking” enthusiast Henry David Thoreau, you will encounter a sign commemorating the location of an “Indian fishing weir” (figure 1). The weir itself is no longer extant, you are given […]

Abstract: This essay loiters among conversations on self-determination emerging out of Black radical and critical Indigenous intellectual and political traditions, conversations that raise fundamental questions about radical imaginations beyond the settler state, radical imaginations based on practices of survival grounded in relationship to place. My method is a contrapuntal genealogy of histories and ideas about self-determination […]

Abstract: Even as Indigenous authority over land remains under attack through ongoing settler-colonial processes, Native nations continue to pursue their own agendas. Like the negotiations around sovereignty across the globe, the result is a web of interconnected authorities. Native nations, US counties and states, the federal government, and various corporations constantly deploy creative tactics, calculated disruptions, […]

Abstract: Garrett W. Nichols calls for a rethinking of the classroom as space for disrupting heteronormative discourses—discourses that Nichols links to settler colonialism—to open a space where we can hear, or sometimes re-hear, queer voices. Settler colonialism is a heteronormative project that relies on rhetorics of reproductive “inheritance” to naturalize the erasure of indigenous cultures. Pedagogies […]

Abstract: Biocultura is an anticolonial theory, praxis and pedagogical framework that brings settler colonialism ‘home’ through the interrogation of biocultural Humxn relationships to Nature – Self, Land, and one another – as Living. EuroWestern Lifeviews (biology, science, philosophy, and politics) that produce colonial biopower are imposed in schooling and society at large, making the biological-cultural complex […]