Excerpt: The chapter discusses some fundamental policies put in place by fascism: policies to prevent new emigration abroad, limited urbanization brought about by major public works, reclamation and inland colonization, increase in rural works and rural society, investments in selected infrastructures. To justify these policy the regime espoused the mirage of a new “terre al […]

Description: We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a […]

Abstract: When the Constitutional Convention began rewriting Chile’s constitution in 2021, 17 of the 155 assembly seats were reserved for Indigenous representatives. This unprecedented achievement, though a compromise, was the result of decades of ongoing struggle for Indigenous recognition and representation as well as intensified organizing during, and after, the 2019 estallido. This chapter relays […]

Abstract: This article analyzes the perceptions and actions of Palestinian faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in Palestinian Bethlehem. We explore the meaning of higher educational practices and structures under settler colonial conditions of gradual dispossession of ancestral land. The physical conditions and policies of occupation and settler colonialism create a hostile epistemological environment […]

Abstract: As a result of a signed agreement between the Government of Canada and Nunavut, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is contracted to police Nunavut hamlets. This iteration of contracts began when the Territory was formed in 1999 and involves the recruitment of Regular Members from across Canada. To better understand the experiences of […]

Excerpt: Time is central to power and domination in the agrarian environment of Israel/Palestine. Seemingly, agriculture is governed by seasonality, harvest time, and market temporalities. Yet, time in agriculture is mediated by governments, scientists, technologies, and preexisting social orders of power and domination. The excerpt of fieldwork that I share below is part of my […]

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Abstract: Deforestation in the Amazon Forest has increased exponentially in recent years. This is a consequence of local, regional, and global dynamic economical processes changing land-use and land cover (LULC) in the Amazon Forest. There is evidence that land deforested to be used for pasture is now being used for crop production. In this circumstance, […]

Abstract: The processes by which settler colonial rights to manage land were assigned to legal persons were structured by the South Australia Act 1834 and the Real Property Act 1858. Colonial corporations – including the Crown – managed land and natural resources by regulating how rights were held by the family as a gendered, property-holding […]

Abstract: The notion of “sundown town” broadly encompasses the various methods employed by American towns and counties to exclude specific racial or ethnic groups from their borders. This paper mobilizes the sundown town notion to explore the dynamics of exclusion present within Canadian company towns by first establishing a sundown exclusion scale that categorizes cases […]