Are the settlers subjected to capitalism (yes, they are)? Wayne Wapeemukwa, ‘Speculative Expropriation’, Political Theory, 2026

02Feb26

Abstract: This article introduces the concept of “speculative expropriation” to reframe Marx’s analysis of expropriation in the context of settler colonialism and capitalism in the West. I begin by examining Marx’s ideas of primitive accumulation and original expropriation, showing how his incomplete analysis of social relations to land can be extended to the transAtlantic context. Drawing on Marx’s pre-Capital manuscripts, I examine his treatment of ground rent and its relationship to feudalism, highlighting how the development of capitalism in the West relied on mechanisms overlooked in conventional readings of Marx’s work. I argue that settler colonialism in the New World did not follow the same logic as European primitive accumulation, where land was taken from peasants. Instead, speculative expropriators gave land to settlers, but only under specific racial and gendered conditions that tied landowners to the financial and political systems of the settler state. The land was often granted with mortgages and preemptive land sales, which placed settlers in debt and subjected them to the control of colonial institutions. This financial framework, grounded in the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples, allowed capitalism to expand through speculative real estate and colonial constructs. By theorizing speculative expropriation, I show how the dynamics of settler colonialism reinvented capitalist accumulation, turning land ownership into a means of controlling settlers through debt rather than directly extracting their labor. This framework provides a new lens for understanding how capitalism expanded across the Atlantic and solidified its global reach in tandem with Indigenous dispossession and population replacement.


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Israel as the global frontier: Wassim Ghantous, ‘Homological Correspondence: Israel as a Frontier of Global Domination’, Antipode, 2026

02Feb26

Abstract: This article offers a novel framing for enquiring the deep entanglement between Israel and Western-led global centers of domination. Moving beyond geopolitical reasonings and historical analogies, it locates this relationship within a dynamic space of homological correspondence, positioning Israel as its frontier. This space refers to a historicized relationship binding Israel and global centers through a shared infrapolitical plane underwriting colonial-capitalist modernity. The framing precludes exceptionalizing Palestine/Israel while carving out space attentive to political continuities, expansions, and frictions. Reflecting on center-frontier relations and engaging notions of exception, (in)security, and political violence across political geography, critical security studies, and settler colonial studies, the article reveals two interrelated movements encapsulated in the wave metaphor: one locating Israel as a wave-edge of intensification and expansion—colonial, territorial, economic, and military—which, second, constantly reverberates back into global centers realigning them to its forces. It concludes with notes on homological compression after 7 October 2023 and the destabilization of global order.


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Settling Europe: Silvia Marton, ‘Imperial dynamics and settler colonialism in East Central Europe. A review essay’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026

02Feb26

Abstract: The review essay discusses recent scholarly contributions on the entanglements between settler colonialism and imperialism in East Central Europe. Three recent publications inform the analysis: Robert Nelson, Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Bogdan G. Popescu, Imperial Borderlands: Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024). The article emphasizes some of the implications of settler colonial interventions in the imperial borderlands for the historiography of nationalism and for the (new) history of empires in East Central Europe.


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Settling the postcolonial: Yehezkel (Ezekiel) Lein, ‘Afrikaners in postcolonial Namibia: contiguous settler colonialism and the question of endurance’, National Identities, 2026

02Feb26

Abstract: This article examines the endurance of white Afrikaners in postcolonial Namibia. It advances two theoretical hypotheses: first, that settler projects in territories contiguous to metropoles follow distinct dynamics, introducing the concept of contiguous settler colonialism; second, that settlers’ vulnerability in postcolonial states tend to generate a strong sense of place, encouraging their persistence. Based on interviews with Namibian Afrikaners, the study identifies three pillars of this sense of place: entitlement to commercial farms, a hybrid ethnic identity sustained by semi-autonomous institutions, and an imaginary of Namibia as peaceful and tolerant. The findings highlight spatial relations between colonies and metropoles as a key factor in shaping varied settler colonial trajectories.


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Anti-Zionist land based Judaism? Stephanie Gray, ‘Ecological Entanglements: Imagining a Land-Based Judaism’, in Clayton Crockett, Saswat Samay Das, Ananya Roy Pratihar (eds), Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives, Palgrave, 2026, pp, 113-131

02Feb26

Abstract: Attention to New Materialist theories transforms how we engage with the political-material effects of religion, including the intersections of white supremacy, fossil fascism, settler colonialism, and climate catastrophe. Climate change apocalypse is both a material and a spiritual concern, especially for those left on the margins. For Judaism, what lessons can we learn from diasporic Judaism rooted in a decolonial land-based politic that would challenge a Zionist ideology that has worked to strip Judaism of its ecological imperative to be in right relationship with the land? Can a Judaism beyond Zionism provide new ways to energize discourses of political liberation, Jewish ritual and practice, and ecological relation to the earth? Here is the potentiality of a kinship that conceives new spiritual and political entanglements that in turn generate energetic possibilities through a process of teshuva, or return. This chapter draws from Jewishand and decolonial studies, to examine the world that is engaged in a genocidal war amid the inescapability of climate change, as well as the world to come, and the world as it could be, in spiritual-material terms.


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Science fiction thinks settler colonialism: Jasmine H. Wade, ‘Antiblackness and Settler Colonialism in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy’, Foundation, 151, 2025

02Feb26

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The insured settler: Onyx Sloan Morgan, ‘Tracing the settler colonial legacies of insurance: From empire to wildfires in British Columbia, Canada’, Geoforum, 170, 2026, #104544

02Feb26

Abstract: British Columbia (BC), Canada is repeatedly identified as ‘ground zero’ for climate injustices. These impacts are seen internationally and experienced locally through increased severity and intensity of wildfires. What international audiences do not see, however, is the role that insurance plays in the aftermath of wildfires—particularly the ways that insurance widens pre-existing social and economic gaps as created by and through socio-legal subjectivities. How insurance continues to uphold property regimes in BC, recreating legal and political dynamics rooted within settler coloniality, is rendered invisible in media and the literature. While property is a precursor for property insurance and research has outlined how property in BC is based upon settler colonialism, research has not considered the impacts of wildfire in BC on property as upheld by insurance, nor trickle down impacts on communities. It is these unacknowledged interconnections between wildfire, insurance, property, and settler colonialism that this paper begins to address by laying a theoretical foundation that can serve for future place-based and empirical studies. By engaging Indigenous-led and anti-colonial frameworks of settler colonialism and property, I interrogate the emergence of insurance and property, and how socio-legal subjectivities operate on reserve land and remain central in defining who and how insurance can be accessed. In so doing, I suggest that property insurance widens pre-existing social and legal disparities as animated through settler coloniality by allowing some to ‘build back’ and remain ‘in place’ while others cannot.


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The Indigeneity of being: Neyooxet Greymorning (ed.), Being IndigenousPerspectives on Activism, Culture, Language, and Identity, Routledge, 2026

02Feb26

Description: The second edition of Being Indigenous presents perspectives from 24 Indigenous scholars who share their knowledge on the interconnected fabric of activism, culture, language, and identity that defines Indigenous existence in the twenty-first century. The book explores personal narratives, cultural traditions, and resistance strategies of Indigenous peoples from 11 countries. This expanded edition features significant updates including a new introduction, restructured organization prioritizing traditional cultural knowledge, and five entirely new chapters on power dynamics, pedagogical approaches, climate change impacts on Indigenous foodways, gender perspectives, and collaborative research methodologies in the Amazon. Being Indigenous is essential reading for students and researchers in Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and cultural studies seeking authentic perspectives on sovereignty, identity, and cultural resilience from those who have lived these experiences.


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Really moving education (against settler colonialism): Laura Barraclough, Michaela Wang, ‘Moving Away from Settler Colonialism in the Classroom: Arguments for Mobility in Teacher Education’, Equity & Excellence in Education, 2026

02Feb26

Abstract: This article advocates for Indigenous-led mobile experiences in teacher education as an effective strategy for preparing teachers to disrupt settler colonialism. Using qualitative methods, we analyze a summer institute that took 25 in-service teachers on a journey led by Indigenous educators along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The teachers’ embodied movement across diverse urban, rural, and reservation landscapes connected past and present settler-colonialisms and revealed the endurance, complexity, and creativity of Indigenous life. The institute exposed teachers to Indigenous traditions of mobile learning that they drew upon to redesign their curriculum and pedagogy after the institute: Teachers guided students in recognizing colonial bias in textbooks; created new lessons on contemporary Indigenous art, culture, and political resistance; designed mobile experiences for their own students, such as field trips and games; and began to challenge settler colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism in their school districts and professional associations.


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Black liberation and settler colonialism: Erik S. McDuffie, The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom, Dike University Press, 2024

27Jan26

Description: In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots. Throughout the region, Black thinkers, activists, and cultural workers, like the Grenada-born activist Louise Little, championed Black freedom. McDuffie explores Garveyism and its changing facets from the 1920s onward, including the role of Black midwesterners during the emergence of fascism in the 1930s, the postwar US Black Freedom Movement and African decolonization, the rise of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X in the 1950s and 1960s, and the continuing legacy of Garvey in today’s Black Midwest. Throughout, McDuffie evaluates the possibilities, limitations, and gendered contours of Black nationalism, radicalism, and internationalism in the UNIA and Garvey-inspired movements. In so doing, he unveils new histories of Black liberation and Global Africa.


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