Abstract: Ever since the 1630s and the discovery of silver ore deposits in the alpine areas of Sápmi, Sweden has nurtured settler colonial ideas in relation to Sápmi and the Sami. The first legal settler colonial tool was the Lappmark Proclamation of 1673. However, the vision of “the land of the future” with mining and […]

Description: Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems—coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention. Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern money in North America through the Massachusetts colony during the seventeenth century. As the young settlement transitioned to […]

Excerpt: On his first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Diné (Navajo) student Malachi Wilson was sent home early (2014). Neatly braided down his back, Wilson’s long hair defied F. J. Young Elementary School’s mandate that “boys’ hair shall be cut neatly and often to ensure good grooming.” Although the school eventually gave Wilson a religious exemption […]

Abstract: This chapter analyses how regional air travel in Australia shapes infrastructural imaginaries through the case study of Regional Express (Rex) airlines. The analysis examines how Rex’s branding strategy aligns air connectivity with rural Australian values and settler colonial history despite its financial ties to the Asia-Pacific region. The carrier’s marketing narrative connects contemporary aeromobility […]

Abstract: In the context of a changing climate and an increasing threat of wildfires, interest in First Nations cultural burning has intensified. One response to this has been an increase in private and government funded burning programs involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors. These collaborations can be fraught in that modes of land tenure, government regulations, […]

Abstract: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maps of the Cherokee homelands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains spanning present-day Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, Northwest South Carolina, and Northwestern Georgia documented and facilitated European settler colonialism’s accretion in the region. I argue that from the 1750s until the early nineteenth century, ecological destruction resulting from the invasion of […]

Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the mexicano settlement experience in central New Mexico’s lowerEstancia Valley, where local settlers co-opted the settlement strategies and traditions of three successive political regimes and experienced a net gain in land ownership over the course of the Long 19th Century. It invokes four major themes: settlement, culture, economics, and parentela […]

Abstract: Faced with the impacts of climate change and colonialism, historians have been quick to celebrate Victorian Arts and Crafts designer William Morris as an important early green voice. Morris produced hand-crafted furnishings inspired by the British countryside to induce respect for nature and resist the nefarious consequences of capitalism. Yet celebratory histories of this […]

Excerpt: Indigenous people are here—here in digital space just as ineluctably as they are in all the other “unexpected places” where historian Philip Deloria (2004) suggests we go looking for them. Indigenous people are on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; they are gaming and writing code, podcasting and creating apps; they are building tribal websites that […]

Abstract: This thesis explores how the embodied everyday experience of living in a militarised, settler-colonial context can be understood through exercise practices, and how the effects of living in such a context may be navigated through exercise. It explores this objective through interviews with six Palestinians who exercise and participate in the Right to Movement […]