Abstract: This paper explores Indigenous resistance to corporate dispossession in both a historical and contemporary context. Using two case studies of corporate dispossession of Ngāi Tahu land and resources in Aotearoa New Zealand, we advance understanding of dispossession and resistance through Indigenous critique. Although over 170 years apart, these cases are linked together by a […]

Abstract: Based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines Palestinian political graffiti in Berlin as a visible form of resistance against state repression. It conceptualises this repression as a transnational extension of settler-colonial mechanisms – understood as settler coloniality, following AnnaEsther Younes – and deeply entangled with Germany’s antiPalestinian racism and institutionalised memory […]

Abstract: This thesis asks what kinds of themes and ignorances arise in the Finnish Parliament, when Members of the Finnish Parliament (MPs) legislate on Sámi, and what kind of implications Parliamentary discussions have, regarding Finnish policy toward Sámi, and the relations between the Finnish state and Sámi. Sámi, the only recognized Indigenous people in the […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples around the world share a history of colonization and poverty, including the loss of land, language, and the cultural foundations of their societies and communities. An increasing number of Indigenous peoples are actively rebuilding and revitalizing their cultures through economic endeavour. This paper presents case studies from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, […]

Abstract: Curriculum, as a policy of the settler-state, is essential in carefully safeguarding learners and educators from encounters with the colonial project’s inherent violence. In Australia, the effort to create an acceptable engagement with the past via curriculum is particularly important given the need to reproduce liberal views and discourses of inclusion that define the […]

Abstract: Resource extraction is tightly woven through past and present processes of colonial and imperial dispossession, characterized by exploitation and violence. Contemporary extraction is simultaneously shaped by community relations to land and community resistance to and reshaping of extractive regimes. This chapter traces both the continuities of extractive violence and the ways in which contemporary […]

Abstract: The establishment of the state of Israel and its subsequent occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip brought a long history of British colonial policy and practice in Palestine back to life. This resurrection, achieved through policy transfer, primarily involved carceral policy pertaining to police roles, the administration of prisons, the application […]

Abstract: This article examines a set of entanglements between settler memory and a monument in a nation that does not acknowledge that it ever had a colonial history. It looks at the efforts of exiled Finnish settlers to keep alive the memory of Petsamo as ‘their homeland’ through a monument they set up in Ivalo, […]

Abstract: In the 1340s, the Kingdom of Poland expanded eastwards, prompting large-scale settlement in the Wisłoka and Wisłok river basins, formerly a borderland between Poland and Ruthenia. This initiative integrated German and Polish settlers, who became known as the “Forest Germans” (Polish: Głuchoniemcy). Led by King Casimir the Great and Lesser Poland magnates, Germans settled […]

Description: The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North […]