among the ruins something is born
08Jun10
Wherever colonisation is a fact, the indigenous culture begins to rot and among the ruins something beings to be born which is condemned to exist on the margin allowed it by the European culture.
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- And now, ending a massive year in settler colonialism (and inaugurating the Permanent Observatory on Settler Colonialism): Ohio Barbarian, ‘We Are All Indigenous Now: How financial cleansing supplanted ethnic cleansing in the United States’, 29/12/25
- Inconceivable! (The factory of settler colonialism): Mohamad Kadan, ‘The Impossible Factory: Dependency and Elimination in Israel’s Settler-Colonial Economy (1956–1960)’, Middle East Critique, 2025
- Fe(de)ral settler colonialism: Éléna Choquette, ‘Settler Federalism and the Conditions of Indigenous Autonomy: A Comparative Study’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2025
- Violence, slow and fast: Elena Ruíz, Structural Violence: The Makings of Settler Colonial Impunity, Oxford University Press, 2024
- Schooling settler colonialism: Meredith McCoy, On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy, University of Nebraska Press, 2024
- Outing settler colonialism: Caitlin Keliiaa, Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, University of Washington Press, 2024
- Sovereignty is a powerful story: Angela K. Parker, Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold, University of Oklahoma Press, 2024
- Alternative settlers (again, on gastro-settler colonialism): Angie Sassano, ‘Between gourds and saltbush: the politics of race, coloniality, and recognition in Australia’s alternative food movements’, Agriculture and Human Values, 43, 2026, #14
- Shopping settler colonialism: Steve Penfold, The Dominion of Shoppers: Canadian Consumption from Hudson’s Bay to eBay, University of Toronto Press, 2026
- Alien monsters: Niamh Gallagher, ‘Indigenous monsters and the spectres of assimilation: Jon Bell’s The Moogai (2024) as Aboriginal Gothic’, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2025
- Ritual settler colonialism: Joshua Zentner-Barrett, ‘With Orca, Goose, and Bear: Expanding Canada’s Ritual Body’, Toronto Journal of Theology, 41, 2, 2025
- Against Mestizo settler colonialism: Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga, ‘Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico’, Antipode, 2025
- Policing the settler order in French Algeria: Samuel Kalman, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1954, Cornell University Press, 2024
- Care against settler colonialism: Nina De Bettin Padolin, ‘Care as Resistance: Indigenous Feminist and Queer Survivance in The Marrow Thieves’, Postcolonial Text, 20, 3-4, 2025
- Settler bodies: Lisa Guenther, ‘Unsettling Perception: A Critical Phenomenology of Settler Colonial Body Schemas’, in Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Délia Popa (eds), Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life: Social Critique, Sense-Institution, and Political Emancipation, Springer, 2026, pp. 255-268
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