Infestation!
31Jul19
In the Guardian Afua Hirsch concludes that ‘Whenever Trump says ‘infested’, we know he’s talking about people of colour‘. She is spot on, but there’s more than racism. Settler colonialism is a mode of domination that reproduces a specific sociopolitical body in the place of another. Unwanted and uncontrolled reproduction is the end of settler colonialism. Like an infection (the terms share the same etymology), an infestation’s primary characteristic is an ability to reproduce. That’s when the settler-colonial mind flips out.
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- Climate fiction as settler absolution: Nicole Seymour, ‘Comedy as White Immunity: Settler-Colonial Evasions in Contemporary US Cli-Fi’, Literature and Medicine, 44, 1, 2026, pp. 120-146
- Settlers with Bibles: Emily Colgan, Brian Fiu Kolia, Michael Mawson (eds), Rereading the Bible in the Wake of Colonisation, Routledge, 2027
- On settler emplacement: Nancy Menning, ‘Emplacement, the Settler Colonial Imagination, and Decolonization’, in Daniel Boscaljon, Verna Marina Ehret (eds), Engaging Culture, Nature, and Religion: Forrest Clingerman and the Importance of Emplacement, Bloomsbury, 2026
- Diplomacy and evasion: Annemarie McLaren, ‘Indigenous Diplomacy and Colonial Entanglement Through the Native Institution of New South Wales’, History Compass, 2026
- Unfree workers, but then settlers: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860, Palgrave, 2022
- Is it time? Andrew Thibaudeau, ‘”The Last of the Monacan”: Settler Time and Queer Time in “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains”‘, Poe Studies, 59, 2026, pp. 93-116
- Sheepish settler colonialism? Irus Braverman, ‘The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank’, American Anthropologist, 2026
- Indigenous resistances: Linda Tabar, The Indigenous Anti-Colonial: A Palestinian Resistance Tradition and a World Beyond Settler Colonialism, Duke University Press, 2026
- A settler for protection: Samuel Furphy, ‘Protector of Settlers? Charles Symmons and Aboriginal Protection in Western Australia, 1840-1855’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
- Genderising settler colonialism: Éloïse Décoste, ‘The Indian Act and the Gendered “Logic of Elimination”‘, McGill Law Journal, 71, 4, 2026, pp. 1001-1035
- Federalism is settler colonialism: Zachary Jericho Couture, ‘Weaponizing Federalism for Settler Colonialism: Canadian Court (Mis-)use of Federalist Prinicples against Indigenous Jurisdiction’, McGill Law Journal, 71, 4, 2026, 1177-1217
- Colonies for like-minded people: David R. Como, ‘Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad’, History, 2026
- The tradwives of the settler imagination: Terra Sage Wallin, The Grammar of Return: Tradition, Gendered Performance, and Moral Formation in the Digital TradWife Movement, PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2026
- Documentarying settler colonialism: Azraf Chowdhury, ‘The lens of resistance: Using No Other Land (2025) and The Settlers (2024) as contemporary documentaries to understand the Israeli settler project’, Journal of Global Faultlines, 13, 2, 2026, pp. 155-179
- Settlers see ‘surplus land’: Myrzantay Zhakyp, ‘Communicating Colonial Space: How Imperial Discourse Produced “Surplus Land” in the Kazakh Steppe’, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 2026
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