Abstract: The conception of this article came to us at the end of a land-based healing program informed by Indigenous approaches to wellness. In this article, we dismantle psychiatric diagnosis, particularly the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s notion of sociodiagnosics, we put DSM diagnostic categories under a sociogenic […]

Abstract: It is now widely acknowledged in the scholarship that Israel maintains a settler colonial regime, which has resulted in pervasive human rights abuses. However, the relation between ecology and settler colonialism in Palestine-Israel has only recently been subject to significant scholarly theorisation, despite the growing field of environmental colonialism and the present ecological crisis. […]

Abstract: This article analyzes the published testimonies of French shipwreck survivors to trace the emergence of a settler colonial ideal in nineteenth-century France. Emerging from the encounters of French survivors with the men of the Anglo-World, this ideal encouraged compassionate, paternalist authority as a solution to the ongoing conflict of paternal despotism and disorderly fraternal […]

Abstract: Several Coast Salish First Nations are actively involved in land reclamation and redevelopment in the greater Vancouver region (Canada). Through their for-profit development corporations, entities like Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation (Squamish Nation) and the joint-venture Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh Development Corporation have become key players in the lucrative Vancouver property market in partnership with […]

Abstract: In this project, I turn to Chadwick Allen’s (Chickasaw ancestry) trans-Indigenous methodology to consider how two Indigenous North American authors move within Euro-Western genre, or move beyond it altogether, in making fictive texts that advance decoloniality and Indigenous artistic sovereignty. First, I read Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians as a novel that […]

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic was experienced by nearly every person around the world. However, while the pandemic was borne by everyone, the weight of everyone’s burden was not equal and was heavily influenced by preexisting inequalities and harmful social structures. As they have in the past, Indigenous peoples in Canada, as well as around the […]

Abstract: The USA has witnessed an ongoing war against ‘critical race theory’ (CRT) alongside more virulent expressions of white Christian nationalism (WCN). Opponents maintain the narrative: CRT is an evil ploy by the Marxist Left posing a mortal threat to America. Building on ontological security scholarship and Lacanian theory on affect, discourse, and subjectivity, the […]

Abstract: Since the release of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (2015) report and their 94 Calls to Action, there has been a push to advance truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada. Much of the heavy lifting has been done by Indigenous peoples; but to comprehensively redress injustices there is a need for […]

Abstract: The Aboriginal reserves of the Port Phillip Protectorate were short-lived and unsettled, largely due to the resistance of Kulin clans to residing in one place. In the earliest years of European incursion onto their Country, they contested being shunted from their homelands, networks of ceremonial sites, and wide-ranging harvestscapes onto small, unleased backblocks of […]

Abstract: This article investigates the motivations behind settler whistleblowing on Indigenous labour abuses in nineteenth-century Western Australia, focusing on two key figures, the ex-convict David Carley and the pearler and pastoralist John Walkinshaw Cowan. While historical narratives often portray such humanitarian activists as morally exceptional, this article argues that their motivations were complex, rooted in […]