The good press of settlers: Shelisa Klassen, Imprinting Empire: Land and Settler Colonialism in Manitoba Newspapers, University of Manitoba Press, 2026

11May26

Description: The 1870s was a time of rapid transformation for the province of Manitoba. Though reeling from the aftermath of the Red River Resistance and ongoing oppression of the Métis community, at the onset of the decade the province was still an Indigenous space. However, by the decade’s close, settler hands firmly grasped power structures and territory following waves of immigration encouraged by newspapers that repeated colonial narratives about land and belonging until they seemed inevitable and true. Through a careful examination of nine Manitoba newspapers—including French-language Le Métis—and relevant local, national, and international immigration materials, Shelisa Klassen captures the tensions, political debates, and outright propaganda that helped the Canadian nation dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land and claim the prairies as its own. Imprinting Empire demonstrates the intentionality, violence, and integrality of immigration to the settler colonial process while clearly pointing to the printing press as a weapon of empire.


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A new take on settler colonialism: Charles Menzies, ‘Settler colonialism’, Dialectical Anthropology, 2026

11May26

Excerpt: Settler, it might seem, is easy to define. It is someone who takes up residence in someone else’s home. When settler is tied to an economic intention to exploit, occupy, or otherwise encroach upon other people’s land we find ourselves in the terrain of settler colonialism.


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The settler army does not need Indigenous peoples: Daniel Stridh, Peter Johansson, ‘Conscription and Colonialism: Tracing the Origins of the Sámi Exemption in the 1885 Swedish Conscription Act’, Scandinavian Journal of History, 2026

11May26

Abstract: In 1885, Sweden introduced a new Conscription Act that explicitly exempted nomadic Sámi from compulsory military training. This article investigates the governmental rationalities and discursive constructions underpinning this exemption, situating it within broader processes of nation-state formation, racialization, and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Sweden. Drawing on official documents and archival material from 1872–1901, the study demonstrates how conscription functioned not only as a military reform but also as a nation-building mechanism that redefined the relationship between state, territory, and population. While settler populations in the north were incorporated into the nation and bestowed with civic rights and obligations, nomadic Sámi were positioned as fundamentally incompatible with the imagined Swedish nation and modern citizenship. The exemption codified racialized distinctions in law and administration, narrowed the definition of Sámi identity, and contributed to the exclusion of nonnomadic Sámi from legal recognition. As such, conscription reinforced colonial hierarchies and materialized the symbolic boundaries of Swedish nationhood.


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The heritage of reconciliation? Andrea M. Cuéllar, Ross Kilgour, Perry Stein, ‘Reconciliation and heritage policy making in a Canadian settler-colonial city’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2026

11May26

Abstract: The emerging field of urban Indigenous heritage seeks to correct the omission of Indigenous cultural antecedents in urban historical narratives. This paper examines the 2023 City of Lethbridge/Sikóóhkotok Heritage Management Plan – the first in the city’s history to incorporate Indigenous heritage. While heritage management plans commonly focus on processes and protocols for designating and protecting heritage, this plan prioritized a heritage management framework centered on ongoing engagement with Indigenous Nations. Through examining the process and layers of institutional transformation that enabled the plan’s development, we reveal new openings for reconciliation and Indigenous heritage sovereignty in urban context alongside persistent constraints in settler-colonial heritage governance. This case illustrates progress in the Canadian heritage field since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action and since the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) received Royal Assent in Canada. It also presents policy recommendations for advancing urban Indigenous heritage frameworks.


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The settler police: C. Cheung, A. T. Murry, T. Latta et al, ‘Discourse on Indigenous-police interactions’, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026

11May26

Abstract: A long tumultuous history between Indigenous Peoples and police continues to negatively impact Indigenous Peoples in the criminal justice system to this day. In collaboration with the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing, the current research explored how Indigenous-police interactions are represented in news, social media and scholarly literature. A content analysis was conducted on news articles (n = 50), Tweets (n = 268) and scholarly articles (n = 58). The main findings revealed news often favored police in their depictions, while social media favored Indigenous Peoples. However, both sources lacked adequate representation of Indigenous perspectives and voices. On the other hand, the scholarly literature was more representative of both police and Indigenous perspectives while focusing on overall issues within the criminal justice system as opposed to a singular party being at fault. These findings highlight the differences in depictions across media outlets and the importance of well-rounded media consumption on Indigenous-police interactions to avoid skewed perceptions.


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The international law of settler colonialism: Mohsen al Attar, Claire Smith, ‘Settler Colonialism, Race, and International Law’, in Mohsen al Attar, Claire Smith (eds), Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries, Oxford University Press, 2026

11May26

Abstract: This chapter considers the relationship between international law (IL) and race from the perspective of settler colonialism. Drawing on Marxist theory, the discussion frames race as a process of abstraction. From this perspective, IL can be understood as a ‘raced discourse’ insofar as it elaborates juridical categories which are premised on a set of anthropological presuppositions. Combined with the critique of settler colonialism from the perspective of critical legal theory, this definition of IL is used to illuminate a politico-juridical dynamic with provenance in settler colonial conquest, but with ongoing and rapidly evolving consequences in the historical present. Drawing on critical literature on international humanitarian law in the context of the war on terror, the discussion concludes by considering the implications of this framework for reconsidering and transforming IL in the context of the ‘frontier’.


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Settler colonial ecocide: Marine Berthiot, ‘Representing Ecocides in Settler Colonial Arts and Literatures in a (Post-)Terra Nullius Era: An Introduction’, Textures, 30, 2026

11May26

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is a structure that is expanding in a (post-)Terra Nullius era, at a time of ecological recession and geopolitical instability. The Terra Nullius doctrine (meaning “empty land” in Latin and literally translated as “land belonging to no human”) regarded unoccupied territories as land that could be appropriated. The notion of property and the concept of utilitarianism were later added by British colonists, while the Terra Nullius doctrine adhered to a racialized discourse during the colonial era, empowering western imperial nations with the right to claim any land inhabited by a people deemed “savage,” “irrational,” and “without history” in a Eurocentric understanding of culture and civilization.


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Accounting, recounting settler colonialism: Rania Kamla, ‘The scream and accounting scholarship: the genocide in Palestine’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 103, 2026, #102858

07May26

Abstract: The essay is a provocation from a Palestinian academic of critical accounting, calling on the field to break its silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the on-going settler-colonial project in Palestine. It frames the act of Palestinians documenting their own annihilation as a form of a “scream”. This “Palestinian scream” is both a product of settler-colonialism and an instrument of remembrance, resistance and decolonisation. While critical accounting scholarship has examined accounting’s historical complicity in war, colonialism, and genocide, such work has largely taken a historical perspective. Confronted with a live-streamed genocide, combined with significant efforts to censor speech on Palestine, I argue that critical accounting academics now face urgent tasks and duty: to engage with the Palestinian scream without dehumanising the Palestinians as helpless victims, but instead showcase their agency and resistance, and by contributing to political and scholarly efforts for decolonisation, achieving justice and accountability. The essay, therefore, poses questions around how can critical accounting scholarship, as a form of speech, respond to screams of suffering, extend their power, resonate with them and amplify them within the specific context of settler-colonialism?


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Pleading settlers: Darren Reid, ‘Letters to the Editor as Performative Imperial Citizenship: Settler Letters to British Newspapers in the late Nineteenth Century’, Britain and the World, 19, 1, 2026

05May26

Abstract: This article examines the role of letters to the editor in British newspapers as a medium for settlers in self-governing British colonies to perform imperial citizenship during the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a dataset of 125 letters from 1860–1900, it highlights how settlers used the participatory nature of the British press to navigate the economic, military, and political structures that remained under British influence after colonial self-governance. By leveraging British public opinion through these letters, settlers sought to address obstacles such as local governmental inefficiencies, unfavorable portrayals in the British press, and challenges from imperial policies and corporate power. The article problematizes historiographical distinctions between political and cultural imperial citizenship. It reveals the persistence of British influence in settler colonies through the guise of public opinion. It emphasizes the constraints imposed by class and editorial gatekeeping on who was afforded the opportunity to perform imperial citizenship through the participatory press. And it argues that letters to the editor were not only tools of individual agency but also windows into the complex and interwoven cacophony of lived experiences of empire within the late nineteenth-century settler colonies.


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Teaching as a right relation: Aimee de Ney, Remembering Right Relations: A Land-Centered Framework for Settler Teacher Transformation, PhD dissertation, Antioch University, 2026

05May26

Abstract: Settler colonialism is based in the separation of peoples from Lands and from one another, producing ongoing harm to human and more-than-human communities as evidenced in climate collapse, racialized violence, war, and widening social inequities. These conditions are sustained by ideologies of human supremacy—specifically white, male, Christian human supremacy—that deny personhood to most humans and to all more-than-humans, while enabling the attempted erasure of Indigenous peoples and the nation-state enforcement of anti-Black and anti-Brown racism. Situated on the Lands of the Coast Salish Peoples in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, this multiparadigmatic innovation dissertation develops a Land-centered framework for supporting settler teachers in transforming toward relational worldviews that re-situate humans as part of Land. Grounded in decolonial Land-and-water education (Bruce et al., 2023; Calderón, 2014; Calderón et al., 2021; Lees et al., 2023; Lees & Nelly, 2024; Tuck et al., 2014), this framework is designed to unsettle settler epistemologies while centering Land. Organized through a seasonal, circular structure, the framework engages three primary interrelated spheres: turning to Indigenous leadership, Land as first teacher, and unsettling the settler. These spheres inform the disruption of settler colonial values and the reclamation of Land-based values, resulting in four seasonal themes: unsettling/(re)stor(y)ing; trauma-informed ceremony; embodying lifeways; and service/activism. The framework emerged through its enactment as research methodology and is presented as praxis for bringing settlers into relational iv accountability (Wilson, 2008) with Lands and their peoples in service of their liberation, including Indigenous resurgence, Indigenous futurities, and the rematriation of Indigenous Lands to their peoples.


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