Abstract: In this article, I explore the slow development of a national debate in Canada about genocide in the Indian Residential Schools, which I compare to earlier “history wars” in Australia and United States. In the first section I begin with a brief introduction to the history of the IRS system and some of its […]

Excerpt: “Israel and Japan are situated at opposite ends of Asia, but this is a fact which binds them together rather than separates them. The vast continent of Asia is their connecting link, and the consciousness of their Asian destiny is their common thought.” (David Ben-Gurion, 1 July 1952 [1]). Existing scholarship cannot explain what […]

Excerpt: The papers collected in this special issue are significant. Collectively they provide a genealogical approach to the interpretation of the global settler colonial present. This is, I believe, a topic worth exploring. How did settler colonialism as a particular mode of domination became a global phenomenon, a phenomenon that even exceeds the polities that […]

Description: This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogies, and understanding of encounters […]

Description: Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge. Each section includes three or four essays and provides definitions, meanings, […]

Call for papers: Over the past decade, settler colonial studies has made a broad intervention in the study of US history and culture by considering comparative frontier processes in settler societies around the globe. One arena where settler colonial studies has yet to make significant inroads, however, is in the interpretation of the Western, arguably […]

Abstract: Cartography, place-naming and state-sponsored explorations were central to the modern European conquest of the earth, empire building and settler-colonisation projects. Scholars often assume that place names provide clues to the historical and cultural heritage of places and regions. This article uses social memory theory to analyse the cultural politics of place-naming in Israel. Drawing […]

Abstract: This article uses a new conceptual approach to the question of Palestine, namely the settler-colonialism paradigm. This paradigm enabled scholars to develop the depiction of Zionism as a settler-colonialist project. However new approaches which have focused on Zionism as a settler-colonialist movement have, in fact, neglected indigenous Palestinian perspectives. The article advocates further refinement […]

Excerpt: This special issue focuses on some key features of settler-colonialism in Palestine from the late nineteenth century to present Israeli settle-colonisation policies in the West Bank.

Description: Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million Pieds-Noirs (literally “black-feet”) were former French citizens of Algeria who suffered a traumatic departure from their homes and discrimination upon arrival […]