On settler colonialism as cruelty: Bryanne Young, ‘”Killing the Indian in the Child”: Death, Cruelty, and Subject-formation in the Canadian Indian Residential School System’, Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 48, 4, 2015, pp. 63-76
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Abstract: Provoked by the religious and state ethos for the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, to kill the Indian in the child, this essay engages Lacanian psychoanalysis and theories of biopolitics to conceptualize processes and practices of subject-formation and self-making within the circuitry of the Canadian Indian Residential School
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- Feminism as a settler colonial weapon: Roberto Israel Rodriguez Soriano, ‘The construction of the “indigenous woman” in Mexico: civilizing strategy and hegemonic feminism’, EntreDiversidades, 23, 2026
- Indigeneity is misrepresentation: Delaney Johnson, Ainu (mis)representation: A close reading of contemporary Japanese media, MA dissertation, University of Victoria, 2026
- Melancholy against settler colonialism: Rhiannon Cobb, ‘”Melancholy is a utopian feeling”: affect as antidote to the bionecropolitics of settler colonialism in Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poetry’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
- Schooling is a settler colonial institution: Alyssa Lyons, ‘(Im)mutable resources: the settler colonial discourse of school websites’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2026
- Settler colonialism is all devouring: Eden Kinkaid, Noah Schlager, Ellen Platts, ‘Settler colonial space-time and the storying of southern Arizona’s foodscapes’, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2026
- Indigenous and Black Resistance against settler colonialism: Crystal McKinnon, ‘Australia and the United States — Racial Violence and Indigenous and Black Resistance’, SPLC, 18/08/26
- Countermapping against settler colonialism: Sakina Ali, Grey Areas: Mapping Settler Colonialism in the West Bank, MA dissertation, University of Auckland, 2026
- Indigenous jurisdiction against settler colonialism: Andrew Ambers, Charlotte Weston, ‘All Roads Lead to the Crown: Aboriginal Title, Private Property, and Indigenous Legal Orders’, Yellowhead Brief, 194, 2026
- Diaspora or settler? Ty Bryant, Crossing the Asian-Indigenous Impasse: (Im)possibilities of Taiwanese (Im)migrant Diasporic Settlerhood, MA dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 2026
- Indigenous horror against settler colonialism: M.I. Angenent, Weaponizing the Non-Human How Buffalo Kinship and Vampirism Shape Counternarratives to American Settler Discourses in Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, graduate dissertation, Radboud University, 2026
- Settler colonialism rising from the dead: Jae Page, The Dead and Property: Legal Geographies of the SettlerColonial Cemetery, PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2026
- Settlers from migrants: Rosalinda Furlan, Second Generation Euro-Canadians: Resisting or Embracing a White Settler Identity?, PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2026
- With a chapter on ‘The Great Emancipator and American Indians’, by James Precht and Scott L. Stabler: in Michael S. Green, Evan C. Rothera, Shae Smith Cox (eds), A Companion to Abraham Lincoln, Wiley, 2026
- Settler feudalism: Law&history: Clare Davidson, ‘Feudalism as comparative jurisprudence: F. W. Maitland and medievalism in Australian land law’, Law & History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, 12, 1, 2026, pp. 1-30
- The double alienation of settler colonialism: Sujatha Fernandes, ‘Beyond Wage Work: Rethinking Alienation in Indigenous Migrant Labor’, Journal of Labor and Society, 2026
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