Abstract: Erosion explores the operations of the white settler-colonial imagination on the physical soils and landscapes of American literature. While Caison’s archive is capacious and rejects strict periodization, her reevaluation of canonical early-twentieth-century texts from an Indigenous Studies perspective will be of interest to scholars working within ecocritical and regional studies frameworks, particularly those whose […]

Abstract: This paper aims to contribute to critical studies of rurality, coloniality, and gender by analysing a media narrative of an initiative for “saving the dying countryside.” The initiative we are focusing on is aimed at making families with children move to a rural village in the north of Sweden. We problematize how the media […]

Abstract: The 1878 arrival of the Argentine settler state as conqueror in northern Patagonia produced a singular problem for the state: the desert. A colonial imaginary of the absolute outside was now incorporated into Argentina, sparking a long-running territorial conflict that endures to this day. This thesis examines how enduring settler colonial processes shape territorial […]

Decsription: In Inland Empire, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió examines how modernist architecture and urban design structured US settler colonialism and capitalist hegemony in the twentieth century. Focusing on Palm Springs’s settlement upon the Agua Caliente Reservation and other reservations in inland Southern California, he shows how architecture became a key technology for governing empire at the […]

Description: Ingeniously connects the history of citrus cultivation to the production and maintenance of whiteness in sites around the world. In The Orchard in the Ruins, acclaimed historian Tiago Saraiva illuminates the global impact of cloning Californian oranges, a practice that emerged in the aftermath of the great depression of the 1890s. Cloning promised control, […]

Description: Informed by field research in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota, this book discusses how hydraulic fracking impacts Christian congregations and Native American communities. Jan Pranger discusses Christian congregations’ responses to the social, economic, and environmental changes extractive industries impose on local Indigenous and settler communities. Revisiting the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota […]

Abstract: No one following the critical academic study of Palestine and Israel over the past decade and a half could fail to observe the dramatic proliferation of the category of settler colonialism. This article examines the intellectual historical conceit of one prominent strand, those studies taking after Patrick Wolfe’s influential theorization. Where many scholars observe […]

Abstract: Migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is known for its confrontation with racialized and gendered migration control. In line with this, this paper aims to analytically extend the migration control of that period to the biopolitics of settler colonialism. By patchworking transnational archives (in the […]

Abstract: This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department’s use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm. I examine how the language […]

Abstract: This dissertation explores the history of graverobbing in the United States and influence of Race Science on the demand for Indigenous specimens. The original contribution of this research to the historiography modernizes language to redefine graverobbing as posthumous violence in an international necro – economy of trafficking Native cadavers. Through necro – capitalism white […]