Abstract: On December 23, 2012, a large group of Palestinians from occupied Palestine and diasporic Palestinians from the settler-colonial states of Canada and the United States issued a statement in support of the Idle No More Movement and Indigenous rights to sovereignty and self-determination. This article explores the assumptions and politics of solidarity that inform […]

The review.

Abstract: This project investigates the legacies of shifting land tenure and stewardship practices on what is now known as the Ottawa Valley watershed (referred to as the Kitchissippi by the Omamawinini or Algonquin people), and the effects that this central colonization project has had on issues of identity and Nationalism on Canadians, diversely identified as […]

Abstract: How did Norwegian immigrants imagine they belonged in and to America during the first thirty years of emigration? This study investigates expressions and perceptions of belonging among Norwegian immigrants in the American Midwest. Operationalizing belonging as an analytical concept for historical research, the study defines three main ways of how immigrants perceived they belonged […]

Excerpt: There is an empty space in the written history of Canada. In monographs, textbooks, and articles alike, narratives of Indigenous peoples fade out following the Indian Act (1876) and the Numbered Treaties (1871-1921). Coll Thrush expressed this as a phenomenon where Indigenous peoples “exit stage left after treaty or battle.” [1] With the exception […]

Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias, with a chapter on Welsh Patagonia (Trevor Harris, ‘A Place to Speak the “Language of Heaven”? Patagonia as a Land of Broken Welsh Promise’, pp. 125-144), a chapter on the German Templer colonies in Palestine (Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Felicity Jensz, ‘Between Heaven and Earth: The German […]

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Abstract: This article examines the cultural identifications of doctors of French origin working for the colonial medical service in Algeria at the end of the nineteenth century. As representatives of the state, doctors were expected to uphold the gendered values of civilisation which underpinned the French Third Republic and its empire. Yet they also formed […]

Abstract: Soon after the settlement of Iceland in the late 9th and early 10th century, an extensive system of turf walls was erected and was functional for about 200 years. After its collapse in the 12th century, few if any walls were built until the late 18th century. The remnants of this Viking Age fence […]

From the introduction: As we set out to write our Call for Papers for this issue, we, the editors, were not certain about where to begin or head. We knew that we wanted Issue 4 of Feral Feminisms to engage with questions of the anti-colonial and/or decolonial and anti-racist scholarship of diasporic people of colour […]