Donica Belisle. Violence of Sugar: Girmit and Canadian Business in Colonial Fiji.

This forthcoming book investigates Girmit and Canadian business in Navua, Fiji.

A preliminary article from this research is Donica Belisle, “VIOLENCE AND PROFIT: Canada’s Debts to the Girmitiyas of Fiji,” published in a special issue of British Columbia History about Indo-Fijian history, edited by Rizwaan Abbas (Summer 2024, pp. 22-26).

Donica Belisle and Daylene Sliz. Sugar in English Canadian Home Economics Cookbooks.

This forthcoming article shows how English Canadian home economics instructors taught pupils about sugar.

Review of Across the Kalapani: Uttar Pradesh to Fiji. By Sunita Narayan.

This is a review of Sunita Narayan’s important book about Girmit on sugarcane plantations in Navua, Fiji.

Capitalism and Atrocity: Ulbe Bosma's The World of Sugar.

Review of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over Two Thousand Years. By Ulbe Bosma. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.

Agricultural History 1 February 2025; 99 (1): 102–107.

Is Cane Sugar ‘Canadian’? The Disavowal of Global Lives and Lands in Canadian Sugar Marketing.

Global Food History. 15 November 2023.