Abstract: This article investigates how selected media commentators in Aotearoa New Zealand framed the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB). Drawing on a discourse analysis of opinion pieces in The New Zealand Herald, Stuff and Newstalk ZB, this paper examines the rhetorical and ideological work in selected media commentaries by prominent media professionals in Aotearoa. The analysis identifies three dominant media […]

Abstract: This volume examines migration to Australia through the critical lens of Indigenous sovereignty, arguing for a fundamental rethinking of migration studies within settler colonial contexts. While migration and Indigenous studies have developed largely in parallel, this book challenges that separation by foregrounding the entanglements between migrant arrivals and the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous lands […]

Description: This open access edited collection provides an interdisciplinary assessment of research about migration on Indigenous lands. Via an assortment of critical reflections from settler colonial Australia, it identifies tensions between colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty as an increasingly salient topic of analysis within migration research. It poses challenges to migration research that takes place on […]

ABstract: In the early 20th century, Baltic German landowners recruited German farmers from Russia. The immigration of these farmers – at that time called “German colonists” – inspired a variety of colonial discourses.

Abstract: This essay considers the legal and literary construction of terra nullius through the early fiction of Australian author Gerald Murnane. Focusing on The Plains and “Land Deal,” I explore how Murnane puts to work settlercolonial myths of empty land, property, and possession. By staging rival ontologies of land between Indigenous custodianship and settler commodification, […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism was never inevitable in North America. It was always vulnerable to defeat at the hands of the colonized who waged anticolonial wars in defense of their territories and governance. Anticolonial war was the reminder of settler colonialism’s limits and weaknesses that its narratives of conquest disavowed. When US settlers invaded Indigenous lands […]

Abstract: The article explores the strategic use of the pseudonym “Yakut” by a group of Sakha (Yakut) intellectuals in the late Russian Empire to assert their political voice against imperial authority and settler colonialism. Operating from the margins of the empire, this collective voice engaged in sophisticated public discourse that did not merely respond to […]

Abstract: This essay is framed by the author’s decision to invent a historical document – a fictitious guide to colonization management written by the imagined bureaucrat Andrei Ivanovich Korotich – to visualize the real but unsystematized Russian colonization ideology of the 1840s. Focused on peasant resettlement ( pereselenie) as a bureaucratic tool for rationalizing the relationship […]

Abstract: Animal rights activism has been criticised in settler-colonial states for overlooking human rights abuses and shielding colonial powers. However, the efforts of animal rights activists to expand their political alliances with subaltern and colonised others are laden with tensions, stemming from the oppression and violence of settler-colonial projects. The steps that progressive non-Indigenous activists […]

Abstract: This chapter proposes cement – the world’s most widely used building material, as a lens through which to theorize the processes of Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. It draws on an ethnographic case study of Israeli settlement construction of private villas in Nokdim and follows cement’s material and immaterial flows. By […]