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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- Settler colonial Carthago delenda est! Dominic Machado, Michael J. Taylor, ‘The Carthaginian Masters: Settler Colonialism and Racecraft in Ancient North Africa’, Arethusa, 59, 2, 2026
- The painful making of territory is a settler colonial conjuncture: Benedikt Korf, Michael Watts, ‘At the edge of the sword: Toward a spatial theory of the frontier’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2026
- The settler colonial hell of psychoanalysis: Martin Kemp, ‘Iterations of Hell: Settler Colonialism as Societal Abuse’, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 23, 2, 2026
- The book of settlers: Stephen B. Chapman, ‘Joshua, Violence, and Settler Colonialism’, in Lissa M. Wray Beal, Craig A. Evans, D. Allen Hutchison (eds), The Book of Joshua: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, Brill, 2026, pp. 404-423
- The novel settlers: Porscha Fermanis, Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures, Oxford University Press, 2026
- Even more ancient settler indigenising: Cecily Devereux, ‘Eugenic maternalism and the figure of the ‘Indian maiden’ in young women’s organizations: the Wauneita Society and the Camp Fire Girls’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
- Iron Maiden’s settler indigenising: Karen Fournier, ‘Asserting the Missing Indigenous Voice in “Run to the Hills”: Iron Maiden (1982); Tanya Tagaq and Damian Abraham (2018)’, in Mike Alleyne, Lori Burns (eds), The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song, Routledge, 2026
- Indigeneous AUTONOMY: Shane Barter, ‘Towards Indigenous Territorial Autonomy in Asia’, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2026
- Settler colonialism on display: Emma Catherine Nagler, Settling the Past: Affect, Display, and the Colonial Uncanny, PhD dissertation, Georgetown University, 2026
- Resisting for sport: Jordan Koch, Robert Henry, Sam McKegney, ‘From locker rooms to change rooms: The Beardy’s Blackhawks and transformative hockey spaces’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2026
- The settler revolution’s global retreat: Aziz Rana, ‘The American Revolution in Global Retreat’, Dissent, 73, 2, 2026, pp. 7-17
- Settler bots: Bronwyn Carlson, Tamika Worrell, ‘Robots Behaving Badly: Algorithmic Colonialism and the Consequences of AI’, Journal of Sociology, 2026
- Beyond the frontier is still settler colonialism: Hisham Bustan, Elia El-Khazen, ‘Between a rock and Israel: how Jordan’s water and energy arrangements advance settler colonialism’, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2026
- Turquoise settler colonialism: Kristen Barbara Dorsey, From Mines to Native Jewelry Markets: Unravelling the Settler Political Economy of Turquoise, PhD dissertation, UCLA, 2026
- Settler role playing (pretendsettling): Albert R. Spencer, Justin Bell, Allyson A. Duarte Vela, Tracie Hoops, Cody Spjut, ‘Dog Eat Dog: A Philosophical Exploration of Settler-Colonialism in Role-Playing Game’, The Pluralist, 21, 2, 2026, pp. 6-22
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