Abstract: My thesis takes as its central question ongoing colonialism in white queer settler affective and discursive relationships to the prairies and to “home.” I engage with the works of queer and feminist Indigenous theorists, poets, and arts by the likes of Gregory Scofield, Adrian Stimson, Erica Violet Lee, Zoe Todd, Billy-Ray Belcourt in order to […]

Abstract: The theatrical depiction of emotion can be a powerful vehicle for the representation of cultural identity.Examining the theatrical use of emotion in Gary Henderson’s play Home Land and Stuart Hoar and Chris Blake’s opera Bitter Calm, this article considers how performed emotions may represent Pākehā cultural identity on the stage. The cultural memories underlying theatrical […]

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Abstract: Ever since the arrival of the European colonisers, theories of international law have been used to justify the process of dispossession of indigenous lands. Even though the adoption of human rights have led to some amelioration, the author claims that this has proved unsatisfactory to address indigenous concerns for one reason: international law remains deeply rooted in colonial […]

Abstract: Descriptions of loneliness and worry fill settler women’s memoirs from British Africa. Despite this prevalence, scholars rarely discuss such emotions at length. This paper explores the themes of loneliness and worry in the memoirs of female settlers from British East and South-Central Africa, 1890-1939. The majority are drawn from Kenya and Rhodesia, and include authors […]

Excerpt: […] But what I want to dwell on here is what I learned from him in the process of our collaboration, in terms of the analysis that his work had suggested and which, in the final pages of Traces of History, he offers to us in the hope that it might be useful to the […]

Excerpt: One of the great virtues of Patrick Wolfe’s Traces of History is that it locates different settler colonial situations in a comparative framework, thereby allowing us to see both how each situation relates to or draws on the others—but also what renders each distinctive in its own right. The Zionist project in Palestine stands out […]

Excerpt: In Patrick Wolfe we lost an intellectual giant. More than any other scholar, he has emerged as the leading figure in the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies and has done so much to advance its generative theoretical paradigm. We also lost another intellectual giant in 2016: Cedric J. Robinson, whose work challenged liberal and […]

Excerpt: I want to take up [Wolfe’s] work to examine Afro-Pessimism […].

Excerpt: No concept has reoriented the field of Indigenous studies recently more than the theoretical framework of settler colonialism. And although Patrick Wolfe would be the first to insist that he did not invent it, his 2006 article, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” offered a language for settler colonial studies that has been […]