16 April 2025
13 October 2024 was a decisive moment in the history of astronautics. On that day, SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space agency, launched a rocket into earth orbit and, for the first time ever, succeeded in redirecting the booster rocket back to the launching...
16 April 2025
From the very outset of settler colonialism, intermediaries played a crucial yet contested role, navigating between colonial powers, local societies, and transnational networks. In the early 20th century Levant, certain individuals (primarily men from...
16 April 2025
A series of settlements in the Northeast of the Netherlands carry the epithet “colonial,” for example the colonies founded by the Society of Benevolence in the provinces of Drenthe and Overijssel and the Peat Colonies (Veenkoloniën) along the provincial border...
15 April 2025
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the historical category of settler in relation to the field of settler colonial studies (SCS). Such reflection also requires considering the category of native as its counterpart and nominal antagonist, of course. As...
15 April 2025
What role do intellectual arguments in favour of settler colonialism play in the practice of colonial administrators? During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europeans not only founded settler colonies, they also wrote theories about the benefits that...
15 April 2025
This essay was inspired mainly by Lorenzo Veracini’s The world turned inside out, and an article written by Evan Jewell on colonisation and domestic displacement. Published in 2021, Veracini’s study offers an explanation for the emergence of settler...
