Description: The bestselling and hilarious investigation into space settlement. Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away – no climate change, no war, no Twitter – beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write […]

Abstract: This essay lays out five stages in the development of Puritan studies over the past three decades: Freestanding Puritanism, Diverse Puritanisms, Transatlantic Puritanism, Settler-Colonial Puritanism, and Persistent Puritanism. These categories map onto similar movements in early American studies more broadly. Having surveyed these developments, the essay spells out a few ways forward, looking specifically […]

Abstract: One of the most fascinating goals in human spaceflight is to land humans on Mars and to establish an initial human outpost on the red planet. Visionaries like Elon Musk propose to build human settlements for thousands of people on Mars and even to “terraform” the planet into an Earth-like “Planet B”. But there […]

Abstract: This article analyzes how three different groups (settlers, agricultural scientists, and Kazakhs) attempted to adapt their agricultural practices to the arid Kazakh Steppe. For the settlers and scientists, this meant an attempt at adaptation to a new unfamiliar environment. However, for the Kazakhs, the adaptation was to a new political and economic reality of […]

Abstract: Legislation and policy supporting multiculturalism in ethnically diverse societies, implemented from the 1970s, have emerged concomitantly with claims for recognition and self-determination by Indigenous peoples. In the settler societies of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, there has been an uneasy relationship between polyethnic and Indigenous claims and agendas, with the state often perceived as […]

Abstract: This paper examines media representations and surrounding discourse of holiday programmes developed for Aboriginal children in 1950s and 1960s Australia. Using a series of case studies and print media reports, this paper examines how white settler organisers and newspapers constructed narratives about holiday programmes as part of broader settler processes that sought to position […]

Abstract: This review explores the colonial land practices employed by Imperial and Soviet Russia andtheir enduring influence on environmental inequality in contemporary Russia. Drawing onsecondary histories and academic literature in Russian and English, it situates Russian environmental issues within global patterns of colonial ecological violence, emphasizing the historicaland ongoing exploitation of Indigenous lands, the marginalization […]

Abstract: This article addresses recent work on empire and colonisation which calls for a reappraisal of how agency and resistance manifests among groups responding to structural marginalisation. We argue that approaching these questions from within the colonial order reveals important idiosyncrasies regarding how groups understood resistance, agency, and popular organising as possible responses that emerged […]

Abstract: Co-authored by two theatre practitioner-scholars, this chapter explores the ‘homescape’ of The June Motel and the associated Netflix series Motel Makeover (2021), set in Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada. We use a practice as research methodology to analyse and unravel settler ideologies, ecologies and gendered domesticities performed and embedded in the scenographies and landscapes of The June […]

Abstract: This masters thesis looks at the history of a residential Indian boarding school in the United States in the last decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th century. This work examines punitive configurations — sedimented practices and ideologies of punishment as well as their contextualization — at Genoa U.S. Indian […]