Excerpt: The current reconciliation process in Canada involving Aboriginal residential school survivors, their families, the Canadian government, and the churches is finally promoting awareness in Canadian society about the emotional costs Aboriginal families and communities have endured spanning a period of five generations.

Description: At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights — generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument […]

Abstract: This thesis is a case study of the Cache la Poudre watershed in Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century and how it contributed to cultural transformations of both Cheyennes and Euro-Americans. This research follows the relationship that developed between Cheyennes and rivers since they inhabited Mille de Lacs in Minnesota in the seventeenth century. It […]

Abstract: This article analyzes Palestinian nostalgia in the West Bank for the first intifada and anxiety over the lack of mass participation in anti-colonial resistance following the Oslo Accords. I attribute three reinforcing components to explain the lack of popular resistance: shifts in the mechanisms of colonial control, structural sociocultural changes, and discursive representations of […]

Reviewing David Armitage, Alsion Bashford (eds), Pacific Histories: Ocean Land, People, Palgrave, 2014.

Abstract: Since Prime Minister Howard’s declaration in 2007 that child sex abuse in Northern Territory aboriginal communities was Australia’s ‘own Hurricane Katrina’, the trope of natural disaster has been a regular feature of print and television media coverage of indigenous affairs in Australia. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to separate what happens to […]

Excerpt: The term “Kibei” typically refers to U.S.-born individuals of Japanese ancestry who have had experience living for a specific period of time in Japan before returning to the U.S., particularly prior to World War II. In Japanese, the term is often written as 帰米, which literally translates to “return to the U.S.” However, one […]

Abstract: What purchase, the imperial museum’s accumulation of the racial primitive in relation to the Marxist account of primitive accumulation? Do these two instances of the ‘primitive’ have anything to do with each other? How might they be connected to the processes of settler colonialism? These are sweepingly ambitious questions. But I would like to […]

Description: In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected, at times even foreshadowed and initiated, many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the “transnational turn.” Global trends of identity politics, performativity, cultural performance and ethics, comparative and revisionist historiography, ecological responsibility and education, as well […]

Description: The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre’s impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by […]