Abstract: The article examines changes in place names in areas along the Black Sea coast of theCaucasus where Estonian settlers were relocated in the 1880s. Following the conquest of the Black Seacoast, Tsarist authorities sought to assert their power by introducing new place names, therebyinscribing their ideology onto the foreign territory. The names assigned by […]

Abstract: The strengthening of political and economic ties between Israel and India in recent decades has prompted the emergence of a body of academic and activist literature that has placed Israel’s violence against Palestinians and India’s against Kashmiris in a comparative and analogical frames. Taking the relationship beyond that of analogy and comparison, this study […]

Abstract: Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza has entailed the massive destruction of universities and schools, religious and cultural centers, and other sites critical to the survival and reproduction of Palestinian cultural life. At the same time, the death toll of Palestinian writers and artists, teachers and doctors, journalists and researchers has been exceptionally high. […]

Description: On Dismantling Colonialism challenges conventional approaches to reconciliation, urging Canadians to move away from the notion of assimilation – where Indigenous peoples are expected to conform to the values and structures of settler colonial society. Instead, this book advocates for a true reconciliation: one that fosters the creation of political, economic, social, and cultural spaces […]

Abstract: This paper examines the exploitation of the Indigenous Oromo people’s natural resources without Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), beginning with the historical subjection and oppression of the Oromo by imperial and colonial forces. It challenges the prevailing narrative of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year independence by showing that its current geopolitical boundaries—formed no more than 175 […]

Abstract: British historian Patrick Wolfe opined that settler colonialism is not just an event in history but is structural and, by definition, eliminates to replace over time. Colonial rule and domination often seek the extermination of occupied nations and peoples through forced assimilation and attrition. Despite the fact that colonialism is at its core ethnic […]

Abstract: Inadequate death investigations for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in Canada are a growing problem. Despite several government initiatives and specialised police task forces, Indigenous families continue to report that investigators fail to conduct complete investigations into their loved ones’ deaths. At the centre of many of these concerns is the role that […]

Abstract: While posthumanism has contributed to questioning the foundations of humanism and the process of exclusion it has engendered of those diverging from the universal category of “Man,” numerous scholars have criticized this theoretical approach from Indigenous perspectives. Critics stress posthumanism’s tendency to appropriate Indigenous epistemes without acknowledging them. It thus runs the risk of […]

Abstract: The marked burial of the dead functions as a proprietary claim to land, and the law has legitimized this relationship since ancient times. Contributing to the literature in legal geography and settler-colonialism, this research provides a much-needed examination of the property relationship between the dead and the land. Through a genealogical analysis of cemetery […]

Abstract: Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system and are disproportionately involved in gang-related activities. This issue is particularly prevalent in communities such as Winnipeg’s North End, where gang culture has become normalized. The persistence of gang affiliation among Indigenous peoples is rooted in the legacy of colonialism, contributing to systemic marginalization […]