Abstract: This dissertation is about places—what they are, why they matter, and how they contribute to making the world we share. I chart a triangular relationship between built materialities, histories, and social imaginaries to articulate how places come about, expand and constrain possibilities, and shape communities and projects. I focus on contested places to account […]

Abstract: In this chapter, we interrogate how artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been used as a tool to facilitate medical colonialism in global health contexts. While often framed as a neutral tool in health and medical care, we disrupt conceptualizations of AI as separate from contemporary issues of colonial and imperial control. Drawing on critical […]

Abstract: Disputes over the meaning of Indigenous consultation and free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) are disputes about democracy. When states reduce these processes to procedural compliance, they collapse plural democratic traditions into a single, statecentric framework. This article explores how Indigenous democratic consultation and consent practices stem from self-determination, rooted in Indigenous cosmopolitics and […]

Description: In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West provides a literary history that rewrites our understanding of when and how queerness began to align with US nationalism and settler colonialism, tracing the discursive production of masculinities in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century […]

Description: Land and Labour narrates the history of the Potters’ Emigration Society, the most widely discussed project of its kind in the era of mass migration to America. Founded by the revived potters’ union in 1844, and the brainchild of a young Welsh-born activist, William Evans, it sought to solve the problems of surplus labour […]

Abstract: This essay corrects the tendency in critical transnational migration studies to evacuate the significance of land and its relationship to Indigenous sovereignty. Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s attention to the agency of land in her conceptualization of borderlands as a starting point, I apply the theoretical orientations offered by settler colonial and critical Indigenous studies to […]

Excerpt: On February 18, 2021, NASA released the first high-resolution color images of the Martian surface captured by the Perseverance rover—rust-red plains, wind-carved rock, and a landscape long imagined as holding clues about whether life ever existed on an otherwise lifeless planet.1 That same week, on February 23, 2021, US Customs and Border Protection circulated […]

Excerpt: This special issue brings an Indigenous critique to borderland studies and a borderland framework to Indigenous studies as part of articulating an emerging field called the “Indigenous Borderlands.” We aim to bring the “land back” to migration and border studies by considering borders from Indigenous perspectives and acknowledging Indigenous movements alongside other mobilities. Putting […]

Abstract: Racial/ethnic health disparities remain a persistent problem in the United States, and everyday discrimination is a key psychosocial pathway contributing to these disparities. Prior research has mostly relied on older, nonrepresentative, or single-group data and has rarely tested theory-driven explanations for why associations between discrimination and health vary across racial/ethnic groups. Guided by the […]

Excerpt: Despite being convicted with a minor sentence, the perpetrators of many such acts still go unpunished by the inaction of a system facilitating permeation of settler violence. This paper aims at understanding the evolution of such isolated acts, assess the role of the state, and finally evaluate accountability mechanisms both domestically and internationally through […]