Excerpt: The Homestead Act was a policy enacted by the United States government on 20 May 1862 to encourage westward expansion. Passed during the American Civil War (1861-1865), the act offered 160 acres (65 ha) of public domain land to any citizen who had never taken up arms against the federal government. Though the land did not […]

Abstract: This dissertation investigates processes ‘upstream’ of mineral extraction in Ontario, Canada- a key jurisdiction in the global mining industry. Critical analyses of mining have largely focused on operating mines. I examine the processes of discovering and delineating mineral deposits, understudied despite their significance for where, how, and with what social and environmental consequences mining […]

Abstract: This dissertation recovers the life and work of Alonzo Wardall (1845–1918) to argue that the Populist revolt of the late nineteenth century was, at its core, a rebellion against the collapse of the settler-colonial economy. Known to contemporaries as the “father of cooperatives,” Wardall, a Union veteran, Iowa farmer, and tireless cooperative organizer, spent […]

Description: The Occupied Palestinian West Bank is central to the Israeli colonial project. It serves as a significant example of occupation. Yet little is understood about how Israeli rule over this area operates. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Israel and Palestine, including interviews with state officials, settlers and military personnel, this book examines the evolution […]

Abstract: Indigenous-specific racism in the health system perpetuates significant harm for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples despite extensive system-wide commitments to Indigenous Cultural Safety. This article argues that Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism must be foregrounded as a foundational approach to achieve Indigenous Cultural Safety. Indigenous Cultural Safety was developed to address conditions that make care unsafe […]

Excerpt: Authors’ words are the center of literary expression and analysis. In addition to “close reading” and qualitative approaches to literature, there is a growing interest in using computer-assisted text-mining to understand patterns in written expression.1 By counting the use of certain key terms and other terms in their proximity for context, text-mining finds potential […]

Excerpt: Over the past thirty years, there has been a growing body of research on Indian boarding schools. Researchers using the settler colonial framework as developed by Wolfe and others1 have shown that the primary purpose of the federal government’s Indian boarding school policy was not to provide education to Native children,2 but to facilitate […]

Abstract: Indigenous communities have long identified settler colonialism as foundational in conditioning health and wellbeing, and its role as a structuring force is increasingly recognized within population health. Yet analytic frameworks in the health sciences have limitations in representing its causal dynamics, with dominant epidemiologic approaches relying on causal assumptions—linearity, discrete exposures, and stable pathways—that […]

Abstract: The South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, was founded and functioned as a British colonial institution, designed to encourage cultural imperialism within the Cape Colony. It was forced to shift this founding focus as British influence in South Africa waned and the nation defined its own identity. This dissertation examines SANG’s […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is increasingly recognized as an aspect of United States history and society. But understanding how settler colonialism is an ongoing structure rather than a historical event that happened in the past is challenging for current students to grasp. The processes and acts that initially dispossessed most Indigenous land in North America and […]