Description: Ingeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world. In The Orchard in the Ruins, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of the great depression of the 1890s. Cloning promised control, […]

Description: Informed by field research in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota, this book discusses how hydraulic fracking impacts Christian congregations and Native American communities. Jan Pranger discusses Christian congregations’ responses to the social, economic, and environmental changes extractive industries impose on local Indigenous and settler communities. Revisiting the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota […]

Abstract: No one following the critical academic study of Palestine and Israel over the past decade and a half could fail to observe the dramatic proliferation of the category of settler colonialism. This article examines the intellectual historical conceit of one prominent strand, those studies taking after Patrick Wolfe’s influential theorization. Where many scholars observe […]

Abstract: Migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is known for its confrontation with racialized and gendered migration control. In line with this, this paper aims to analytically extend the migration control of that period to the biopolitics of settler colonialism. By patchworking transnational archives (in the […]

Abstract: This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department’s use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm. I examine how the language […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the history of graverobbing in the United States and influence of Race Science on the demand for Indigenous specimens. The original contribution of this research to the historiography modernizes language to redefine graverobbing as posthumous violence in an international necro – economy of trafficking Native cadavers. Through necro – capitalism white […]

Abstract: The present article examines comparisons made by Zionists between the Zionist colonization of Palestine and other cases of settler colonialism before 1948. Four main findings emerge from these comparisons: one, Zionist intellectuals often used comparison as a way to develop theories of colonization or to make sense of their relationship with Britain and the […]

Description: How the rhetoric of monogamy was weaponized against Indigenous and queer lives by colonial powers in the nineteenth century. While marital monogamy is often posited as inevitable and essential, it was in fact a negotiated practice inflicted onto occupied lands to enforce social control and white settler reproduction. Conjugal States makes an ambitious and […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples in Canada, Australia, the United States, and Aotearoa New Zealand experience persistent and preventable health inequities driven by colonisation, systemic power imbalances, and the imposition of Western biomedical frameworks that fail to reflect Indigenous understandings of health. A systematic literature review was conducted using the PRISMA-2020 protocols, identifying 644 records in Scopus […]

Abstract: Food systems, in terms of the processes, structures, and relationships that bring food to our plates, are deeply embedded in historical and ongoing processes of colonialism. In settler colonial countries, this reality is contributing to growing attention to and engagement with Indigenous peoples and communities in food systems scholarship and practice. This paper asks: […]