Abstract: Cycles of violence and displacement engulfed Indigenous, French, and English groups in the area around what is now the border between Canada and northern New England as European settlers and trade pushed into Indigenous homelands throughout the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. These violent cycles led to long absences […]

Abstract: This study combines Anderson’s concepts of spatial boundaries and administrative classification with Gellner’s theories of state and nationalism to analyse identity reconstruction in seventeenth-century Formosa under the tripartite interaction of colonial powers, Hokkien immigrants, and indigenous peoples. Multiple toponyms – Ilha Formosa, Takasago – reveal external powers’ construction of Formosa as a ‘strategic frontier’ […]

Abstract: Indian Residential Schools were created by the Government of Canada and Christian Churches to assimilate Indigenous children into settler colonial culture. This method was developed at the end of the 1880s, when the settler government formalized agreements with the Churches to establish and manage boarding schools aimed at evangelizing and assimilating Indigenous children. From […]

Description: Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was produced by men, Vigorous Reforms focuses on the understudied literary history of how women came to understand physicality and its connection to their everyday lives. […]

Abstract: Settlers are weird. They are supposed to be ‘natural men’, and ‘all the world was once America’, but they are. It is unsurprising, and the job of all ideological representations is to turn specific modes of domination into ‘natural’ occurrences. Settlers are inherently unbalanced and easily ‘unsettled’. It is not a coincidence that the […]

Abstract: Land acknowledgements—formal statements recognizing Indigenous custodianship of land—are widespread in Australia, where they originated, and have been gaining traction in the USA. Proponents argue they raise awareness of Indigenous histories and build support for reparations, but causal evidence is limited. Here randomized experiments on non-Indigenous populations in Australia (N = 1,724) and the USA (N = 1,773) find […]

Abstract: This article theorizes how the convergence of technological innovation and military strategy has reconfigured the Israeli occupation into digital settler colonialism, intensified after October 7, 2023. Extending digital colonialism debates, the study shows Israel’s innovation economy operates as both national project and global business model, embedding the tech sector in genocidal violence. Grounded in […]

Description: What swamps can tell us about race and power in the United States. Wetlands—particularly swamps—have evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United States, from the early republic to the end of World War I. White, enslaved, and Indigenous peoples alternately envisioned swamps as future agricultural paradises, uninhabitable wastelands, portals to freedom, spaces […]

Excerpt from the interview: Dirk Moses: ‘The foundation for the book, Ungrounding, is the work you’ve been doing with your team at Forensic Architecture. Can you tell us about Forensic Architecture and the work that you and your team do there?’ Eyal Weizman: ‘Forensic Architecture started as a university-based research agency around 2010, but it […]

Abstract: Drawing on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine, this thesis explores the role of cultural heritage in Palestine within the context of ongoing settler colonialism and the Oslo liberal peace model. Palestinian cultural heritage is a vibrant arena of resistance, situated between loss, displacement and neoliberal visions of a future “state-to-be”. Despite enduring […]