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Integration requires disintegration: Paloma E. Villegas, Breanna Barrie, Serriz Peña, Jilanch Alphonso, Alveera Mamoon, ‘Integration, Settler Colonialism, and Precarious Legal Status Migrants in Canada’, Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2019, pp. 1–17
Erasing present indigenous people by focusing on long gone ones: Lee M. Panich, Tsim D. Schneider, ‘Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology’, American Antiquity, 2019
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Foreclosing indigenous people, literally: K-Sue Park, ‘Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America’, Law & Social Enquiry, 41, 4, 2016, pp. 10006-1035
01Sep19
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In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists’ and native communities’ conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.
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Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. Settlers 'come to stay': they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity.
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Migropessimists (when in settler colonialism): Lorenzo Veracini, Simone Battiston, Francesco Ricatti, ‘Migropessimism of the Intellect, Migro-Optimism of the Will: The Italian-Australian Experience’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2025
Sanctioned? Jessica Whyte, ‘Sanctioning Settlers and Settlers’ Sanctions: Financial Warfare and Economic Peace in Occupied Palestine’, Middle East Critique, 2025
Fired up settlers: Nicholas Spengler, ‘Playing with fire: unhousing and unsettlement at the antebellum hearthside’, Textual Practice, 2025
Settler womanhood now: Laura Rodriguez Castro, Barbara Pini, ‘Settler colonialism, neoliberal feminism and the ‘white middle-class farming woman’ in Australia’, Postcolonial Studies, 2025
The settlers’ Manifest Undestiny: Zoltán Dragon, ‘Spaces in Crisis: Photography of Abandonment, Desolation and Emptiness in the U.S.A.’, Americana, 21, 1, 2025, pp. 28-38
Settlers against nationalists (rhetorically embracing indigeneity for colonialist purposes): José Pedro Monteiro, ‘Portuguese Late Colonialism and International “Indigenous” Politics: the Spectrum of Protection, Transformation and Discrimination (1945–1972)’, e-Journal of Portuguese History, 2025
Emotional settler colonialism: Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, ‘Colonizing emotions: Death and sociopoliticide in a besieged society’, Critical Sociology, 2025
Prototypical settlers: Rashid Khalidi, ‘Settler’, New Literary History, 56, 2, 2025, pp. 395-406
Indigenous peoples have reservations: Isabelle Merle, ‘Indigenous Reservations in Australia and New Caledonia: A Colonial Reality and Its Variations in Aboriginal and Kanak Worlds’, The Journal of Pacific History, 2025
Should space law follow settler law? Muhammad Faisal Rasheed, Shouping Li, ‘Emerging Trends of Neo-Colonialism on Earth and the Future of Space Law’, Beijing Law Review, 16, 3, 2025
Bypassing settler colonialism: Ken Wilson, Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road, University of Regina Press, 2025
The settler repressed re-emerges as horror: Laura Hall, Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror, University of Regina Press, 2025
Racial and settler capitalism: Zophia Edwards, ‘W. E. B. Du Bois on the Logics of Settler Colonialism’, Sociological Forum, 2025
Radical healing as decolonisation: Laurie D. McCubbin, Christine Park, Fei Bi Chan, ‘Indigenous Resurgence as Radical Healing Among Native Hawaiians’, in Zed Zhipeng Gao, Maria I. Medved (eds), Global Perspectives on Cultural Politics in Indigenous Psychology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp 239-259
Displaceable in the settler city: Uri Ansenberg, Erez Tzfadia, Oren Yiftachel, Oded Haas, ‘Displaceable! Precarious urban citizenship in Israel/Palestine’, Politics and Space C, 2025
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