Abstract: This article explores the relationship between innovation urbanism and settler colonial city-making through the case of Jerusalem/al-Quds. It argues that the theory and practice of “proximity,” often assumed to be a key prerequisite of innovative economy, is deeply entangled with settler colonial genealogies, terrains, and social relations. By analyzing “proximity” through the lens of […]

Abstract: While planning practice in settler-colonial contexts has long reproduced the settler-colonial relationship, growing municipal attention to colonial inequities provides a potential space for transformation. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, this paper interrogates how municipal planners involved in comprehensive land use planning processes in Montréal and Vancouver represent “reconciliatory” practice. The analysis reveals a tension in […]

Abstract: This article examines the emergence of a colonizing elite in the Global South. Despite the relevance of colonization processes, state formation, and the development of economically privileged groups, these phenomena have not been sufficiently connected from a historical perspective. Drawing on a database of life trajectories, genealogical ties, and commercial networks of 123 German […]

Abstract: Bracke’s article revisits population ‘replacement’ ideologies from an analytical vantage point of coloniality and takes this as a point of departure for a psychosocial exploration of ‘replacement’ anxieties. The article first attends to three prominent instances in the modern genealogy of population ‘replacement’ thinking: Le Grand Remplacement by Renaud Camus in the 2010s; the […]

Abstract: The Sunshine Coast of southern British Columbia, Canada, is extensively populated by Himalayan blackberries (Rubus armeniacus), a species introduced to North America in the late nineteenth century. In their coexistence with other species, humans often categorize nonhuman life forms as either beneficial or detrimental. Yet the Himalayan blackberry challenges this binary classification: while widely […]

Abstract: This article examines the introduction of trout from the northern hemisphere as part of the colonial ordering of Argentine Patagonia. Since 1904, trout have been mobilized not simply as ecological interventions but as tools of state-building that have reshaped rivers and lakes and contributed to the displacement of indigenous peoples. Stocking programs initially provided […]

Abstract: Violent upheavals in landownership following conquest often change not only the concentration of land across individuals, but also the inequality of its distribution between groups. We argue that variation in landowners’ group identity has important implications for the provision of local public goods. We test this claim by studying the aftermath of the Cromwellian […]

Excerpt: Data centers are at the heart of metabolic injustices proliferating across much of the periurban and rural United States. Amidst this data center boom and its concomitant AI revolution, it is no surprise that the people and places most vulnerable to their myriad harms are the same people and places that have resisted centuries […]

Abstract: This article examines toponymic transformations in Palestine, exploring how naming practices shape spatial identity in contested geographies. Moving beyond viewing renaming solely as top-down dominance, the research adopts a comparative approach situating Palestine alongside Ireland and South Africa to unpack mechanisms of ‘Memoricide’ and symbolic resistance. Utilising qualitative methodology integrating historical discourse analysis with […]

Abstract: This article considers the ways poetry can attend to the tensions and compatibilities between degrowth and Indigenous sovereignty within a broader ecopoetics framework. Both Indigenous sovereignty and degrowth movements reject growth-based economic models and propose alternative future models that reimagine social and economic systems for planetary survival. At the same time, Indigenous activists are […]