Abstract: Settler-colonial theory has become an influential framework in sociology. Yet its central claim—that settler-colonialism is an enduring structure organized by a “logic of elimination”—generates a theoretical paradox. If settler-colonialism is total, how can Indigenous agency be theorized without reproducing the structure it seeks to transcend? I address this tension by bringing sociological theories of […]

Abstract: This article explores the enduring presence of Russian speakers in Estonia through the lens of a novel theoretical framework: contiguous settler colonialism. It highlights the settler colonial nature of the Soviet regime and posits that geographical contiguity between a metropole and its colony discourages settler self-determination and lessens the likelihood of mass exodus post-decolonisation. […]

Abstract: The rise of omvolking as a political concept in the Low Countries raises questions about its history, and notably its genealogical connection to Umvolkung. This article traces the genealogy of Umvolkung, thus connecting contemporary population ‘replacement’ discourse to a larger German intellectual and political history. Through conceptual and archival analysis, we distinguish three interrelated strands in the conceptual […]

Abstract: This article examines how long-term prisoners in Western Canada narrate their anticipated re-entry to a settler-colonial society using a narrative approach to analyze 147 interviews with federally incarcerated people. The great majority of our participants describe experiencing child welfare and other types of state intervention when growing up; many are Indigenous. Instead of treating […]

Abstract: Movements across the Global South increasingly mobilise Palestinian political vocabulary – apartheid, occupation, settler colonialism, Nakba – not merely as expressions of distant solidarity, but as analytical tools for interpreting their own conditions of domination. This article proposes the concept of Palestine as political grammar to analyse this phenomenon: the process through which categories elaborated through […]

Excerpt: Unthinkable numbers emerged from a recent agricultural consortium report—seventy-two hours separates metropolitan abundance from absolute scarcity. Not a season. Not a month. Three days of illusion before grocery stores transform from cornucopias into stripped metal skeletons. Analysts who’ve spent careers mapping supply chain fragility now whisper about older methods, buried beneath fluorescent hum and […]

Abstract: This essay complicates the distinction between of “North” and “South” as spaces of knowledge production—which usually entails the privileging of the South as an emancipatory space—by directing attention to Southern actors’ imbrication with forms of colonialism. It calls for situating both Northern and Southern actors within networks of global knowledge exchanges by critically examining […]

Abstract: The Canadian context is one in which settler colonialism used legal lies like the Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius to lay claim to land already occupied, used, and cared for by Indigenous Peoples1 since time immemorial. After arrival, settlers “began to act less and less like guests and more and more as lords” […]

Abstract: Existentialist philosophy, in particular the work of Franz Fanon and Jean-Paul Sartre, was crucial to early postcolonial theorising and, as demonstrated in the work of Brendan Hokowhitu, continues to be an important perspective for understanding Indigenous postcolonial experience. Existentialism is a valuable tool in the on-going attempt to gain clarity about the nature of […]

Abstract: This paper studies how contemporary Chinese diasporic settlers represent their experiences of Australia on Rednote (Xiaohongshu), a visually oriented social media platform with a predominantly young, female user base. Analysis of 248 Rednote posts by Chinese migrants in Australia reveals recurring portrayals of Australia as an empty land of leisure, a site of Chinese […]