Abstract: Placing Lauren Berlant’s concept of “cruel optimism,” in conversation with Tuck and Yang’s work, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” this paper examines affective attachments to mass tree-planting efforts, which encourage unquestioned faith in these initiatives, serving to enable their persistence despite their consistent failures. This paper questions how affective attachments to mass tree-plantings teach […]

Description: There are approximately 370 million Indigenous people in the world, belonging to 5,000 different groups, in 90 countries worldwide. Indigenous people live in every region of the world. As ‘being Indigenous’ is increasingly acquiring a more globalised focus, terms such as ‘Indigeneity’ are useful to refer to our membership of the global community. As […]

Abstract: Starting in the 1890s, expansion-minded Polish nationalists advocated the settlement of the Brazilian state of Paraná, hoping to create a bridgehead for a ‘New Poland’ in South America. This article examines why, around 1900, colonialists began framing the Polishspeaking settlements of Paraná as another front in the ‘culture wars’ that pitted German and Polish […]

Abstract: Australia led the world in passing legislation to establish free, secular and compulsory school systems. While school systems were not designed for the education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, Aboriginal families participated in state school systems, nonetheless. In the early 1900s, as new land acts drove closer settlement, the dynamics in some […]

Abstract: Background: People in recovery from substance use face unique challenges that can threaten the sustainability of their progress. These issues are often compounded in rural areas, where economic and geographic barriers limit access to recovery services. Indigenous Peoples face ongoing structural inequities that further challenge sustained recovery. More information about experiences in recovery in […]

Abstract: How should non-Indigenous teachers represent Indigenous culture and experience to their students? As a growing number of schools in North America require this content, non-Indigenous educators often struggle with how to present it accurately and respectfully, in ways that honor Indigenous sovereignty and cultural revitalization. In order to support their efforts, this chapter offers […]

Abstract: This chapter urges scholars who work at the intersection of environmental, multispecies, and racial justice to reflect more closely on the entanglements of human and other-than-human lives and the legal regimes that shape those entanglements in various settler colonial contexts. The chapter draws on and further develops the term “settler ecologies,” defining it as […]

Abstract: This chapter presents a critical autoethnographic inquiry into the author’s felt experiences as Hokkien/Hohlo, Han, and a Taiwanese international graduate student in the United States. In the ongoing realities of global racialization, racism, colonialism, and imperialism, studies have emphasized how self-examination and disclosure can contribute to anti-oppression and resist harmful narratives in academia. I […]

Abstract: Pastoral outposts are an effective and rapid tool of settler colonialism in the occupied West Bank. The paper provides a thorough analysis of these seemingly innocuous livestock farms, revealing them as a strategic instrument for expropriation of vast grazing areas, the fragmentation of Palestinian territories, and the displacement of local communities. The main limitation […]

Description: From the earliest days of its founding, the United States set its sights on Native territory. Amid better-known “Indian wars,” the federal government quietly built an empire by treaty, offering payments to Native peoples for their land. Routinely inadequate, these payments were nonetheless pivotal because federal officials chose not to deliver them as a […]