Abstract: In this article, I explore a heritage scandal known as the “sacking of the Frissell,” which occurred in the Indigenous Zapotec town of Mitla in Oaxaca, Mexico. One evening in 2006, it is said, the Frissell Museum’s entire collection of artifacts disappeared. Mitleños were shocked and appalled when it was revealed that the “theft” […]

Abstract: Many Indigenous youth and young adults in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have reported low vaccine confidence, which has been linked to lower vaccination rates for COVID-19, MMR, HPV, DTaP-IPV-Hib, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Narrative-based health promotion approaches, including those focused on strengthening vaccine confidence, have been used in public health […]

Description: How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians: Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of […]

Abstract: In this chapter, I commence by proposing the reframing of the Anthropocene to the ‘Colonialcene’ as a means to recognise the historical and ongoing impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples and ecosystems (their more-than-human kin). I move on to provide an overview of Indigenous Knowledge (IK), detailing its inherent holistic nature and its place-specific […]

Abstract: The question of Chinese settlerhood in early British Columbia has long been overlooked in scholarly circles due to the historiographical gap between Chinese Canadian history and settler colonial studies. To bridge this gap and decolonize Chinese Canadian history, I apply the ‘entangled histories’ method to examine it through the lens of settler colonialism. Drawing […]

Abstract: The Moreton Bay penal station was established in 1824 in a remote area of northern New South Wales – now part of Queensland – to punish convicts for offences committed in the colony. To discourage these ‘repeat offenders’, prisoners performed hard labour in irons and were regularly flogged under an unforgiving tropical sun. Among […]

Abstract: Congress created the United States Fish Commission (USFC) in 1871 to investigate the causes of fish diminution on the Atlantic seaboard, but the USFC’s remit soon expanded from study to intervention. In settler California, the USFC set up one of its first hatcheries for chinook salmon propagation on the McCloud River, a tributary of […]

Abstract: In the trans-Mississippi West, white Union veterans and their families commemorated the American Civil War in ways that supported the colonization of American Indians and privileged themselves. This article analyzes the gendered dimensions of this process. In Memorial Day addresses, monument dedication speeches, and GAR and WRC records, western Union veterans celebrated themselves for […]

Abstract: Degrowth offers pathways to stay within ecological limits while increasing human and planetary wellbeing. As non-indigenous scholars living in the settler state of Canada we see a gap in the degrowth literature regarding degrowth transitions within settler societies, as much of it comes out of a European context. In this paper, we analyze three […]

Abstract: On May 9, 1936, in one of his most celebrated speeches delivered from the balcony of Rome’s Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini announced to Italy and the world that the nation ‘finally had its empire.’ Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa a few days earlier; Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian king of kings, had fled into exile. […]