Positionality against settler colonialism: Dan Frederick Orcherton, ‘From Dust We Came and from Dust We Shall Return: Settler Scholar Positionality, Equity and Collaborative Commitment in Higher Education Reform’, Journal of Policy & Governance, 5, 2, 2025, pp. 21, 56

06Feb26

Abstract: This essay interrogates settler scholar positionality in relation to equity and collaborative commitment within higher education reform, arguing that meaningful decolonization requires reflexive, ethically grounded partnerships with Indigenous communities. Drawing on frameworks such as Two-Eyed Seeing, Movement-based Participatory Action Research, and transformative leadership, the paper situates settler scholars within colonial legacies that shape knowledge production, curriculum, governance, and climate justice narratives. It explores how entrenched power dynamics and systemic barriers—manifested in curricula, institutional policy, and philanthropic reconciliation discourses — undermine Indigenous epistemologies and perpetuate exclusion unless actively addressed. Through case studies and theoretical synthesis, the work articulates models for equitable engagement, including the institutionalization of Indigenous Knowledge Holders Councils, co-created research agendas, and culturally responsive pedagogy. The analysis emphasizes the necessity of accountability, sustained reflexivity, and ethical research practices that center Indigenous agency, data sovereignty, and shared governance. Challenges in forming genuine partnerships are examined, including historical distrust, divergent epistemic expectations, and institutional inertia, along with strategies to overcome them. The essay concludes with a call to action for settler scholars: to move beyond performative allyship toward sustained structural change by embedding Indigenous methodologies, supporting Indigenous leadership, and co-developing knowledge systems that advance equity, resilience, and reconciliation.


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Relationality against settler colonialism: Melissa Kennedy, Erin O’Donnell (eds), People, Place and Nature in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Recentring the More-than-Human World, Springer, 2026

06Feb26

Description: This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the USA. The book provides students and researchers with critical frameworks for analysing how colonial power relations shape contemporary injustices while exploring Indigenous-led pathways toward transformation. Organised into three sections – Words of the Land, Unmaking Extraction, and Restoring Country, Restoring Justice – the collection demonstrates how relationships between people, place, and the more-than-human world are articulated through Indigenous water governance, cultural restoration projects, decolonial museum practices, traditional ecological knowledge, and community-controlled care systems. Chapters engage theoretical rigor with practical case studies, offering concrete examples of how Indigenous knowledge systems provide solutions to environmental and social challenges.


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Settler colonialism in French: Caterina Bandini, Marion Lecoquierre (eds), Le colonialisme de peuplement: applications empiriques et approches critiques, Special Issue of Revue internationale de politique comparée, 2, 31, 2024

05Feb26

Excerpt: Le colonialisme est souvent appréhendé comme la logique homogène et a-temporelle d’un système politique qui a pour objectif l’exploitation économique d’un territoire et de sa population autochtone par une métropole. Le paradigme du colonialisme de peuplement propose lui d’isoler une forme spécifique de colonialisme, à savoir l’expulsion et le remplacement de la population autochtone par un collectif de colons exogènes, qui va constituer un corps politique autonome sur le territoire conquis (Veracini, 2019b). D’après la célèbre formule de Patrick Wolfe, dans une colonie de peuplement, « les colons [settler colonizers] viennent pour rester : l’invasion est une structure, pas un événement » (Wolfe, 2006, p. 388). À ceci s’ajoute une « logique d’élimination » (ibid.) présentée comme inhérente à ce processus. Celle-ci ne désigne pas uniquement, ou nécessairement, l’élimination physique de la population autochtone, mais peut comprendre également son assimilation au sein de la nouvelle société coloniale, et les tentatives d’indigénisation de la part des colons.


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Canoeing through settler colonialism: Brandon Pludwinski, ‘Postcolonial im/mobilities Youth summer camp canoe travel in Algonquin Provincial Park’, in Dominic Lapointe, Michela Stinson, Meghan Muldoon, Bryan Grimwood (eds), Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism, Routledge, 2026

04Feb26

Abstract: Canadian parks and protected areas, spaces discursively considered external to human influence and social structures, are often tethered to unjust settler-colonial legacies and power imbalances that unevenly support and structure movement. This is especially problematic for several youth summer camps who, year after year, lead thousands of campers through these “wild and untouched” spaces. This chapter will expand on the ideas of im/mobility justice and situates a postcolonial approach to conceptualizing how touristic movements in parks and protected areas are structured and intertwined with colonial injustices. Specifically, it will show how mobilities and postcolonial research intersect to highlight modern-day manifestations of colonial rule that have normalized through movements across time and space. The postcolonial mobilities approach offers tourism researchers, practitioners, and clients a way to rethink the foundations upon which mobilities rest and, ultimately, change practices to bring forward a more socially just im/mobility.


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The grief of settler colonialism: Karen Lawford, Holly McKenzie, ‘Reproductive (In)Justice Work: Witnessing Grief and Seeking Joy’, in Darcy L. Harris, Tashel C. Bordere, Lisa McLean (eds), Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief, Routledge, 2026

04Feb26

Abstract: In this chapter, we offer our reflections on navigating grief and loss within our research about reproductive (in)justice(s) with Indigenous Peoples. We start by introducing ourselves and our relationships to this work. We share our reflections about grief and loss, and how settler-colonialism and other intersecting forms of structural violence are implicated in loss and grief, particularly in the lack of recognition of some forms of loss as “grievable.” We then discuss our role as witnesses with people who are experiencing loss within this work. Finally, we reflect on how we engage with joy alongside violence, grief, and loss.


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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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