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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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The problem of the settler library out there: Dattatraya Kalbande, ‘Toward extraterrestrial librarianship: Designing knowledge systems for human settlements in space’, Journal of Space Safety Engineering, 2026
Indigenous-settler relations in urban Nigeria: Olutoyin Samuel Senbor, ‘Ethics, Culture, and Peaceful Co-Existence among Indigenous and Settler Communities in Ketu, Lagos State’, Interculturality, 1, 2, 2026
Assimilate or die! Gracelen Hawkins, ‘Comparing Assimilationist and Non-Assimilationist Approaches in Settler Colonialism: From Ancient Times to the Present’, Honors dissertation, Wright State University, 2025
They wear settler ignorance: Kai Handfield, Thomas Delawarde-Saïas, ‘Indigenous facilitators raising awareness about colonialism within settler colonies: tensions and ambivalence’, AlterNative, 2026
Indigenising or abolishing it? Ashley Kyne, Justin Piché, ‘The Prison as Reconciliation? Considering the “Indigenization” of Carceral Spaces in Canada’, Yellowhead Institute, 10/03/26
German Indianhusiasts: Anna Luisa Maria Veronika Schneider, Beyond Indianthusiasm: Tracing Connections between Self-Indigenization, Nationalism, and Settler Coloniality within Contemporary German Public Discourse, doctoral dissertation, University of Saskatchewan, 2026
On the geopolitics of settler colonialism: Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, ‘Teutonic Horizons: Geopolitical Thought and Anglo-Saxon Empire in Late-Nineteenth Century Iceland’, Global Studies Quarterly, 6, 2, 2026, #ksag034,
Entwining settler colonialism: Jeremy Laity, ‘Entwined Existences: Rethinking Coast Salish/Settler Relationships in Rural Nineteenth-Century British Columbia’, BC Studies, 228, 2026
Space settler colonialism: Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe, ‘Space Expansionism: A Pre-Disaster Legacy in the Making, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2026
Providential settler colonialism: Laura Rademaker, ‘Providence and the Destiny of the “Heathen” in Australia’s Settler Colonies, 1788-1860s’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2026, #lfag011
Settlers come to stay: Tin Pham Nguyen, ‘Rooted in the ‘lucky country’: settler permanence, emigration ambivalence, and national identity in Australia, National Identities, 2026
Really JICH? Amir Goldstein, Elad Nahshon, ‘From Partnership to Revolt: The Dialectics of SettlerColonial Consciousness in the Zionist Right’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
The critical psyche against settler colonialism: Lee-Anne Broadhead, Christine Gwynn, Sean Howard, ‘he Critical Psyche: Jung, Marcuse and the Aesthetics of Social Change in an Era of Indigenous Resurgence’, International Journal of Jungian Studies, 2026
It’s time: Genevieve Renard Painter, ‘As If a Foreign Country: Evidence Law and Settler Colonial Sovereignty’, in Paolo Amorosa, Ville Erkkilä, Karolina Stenlund (eds), Times of Global Injustice, Routledge, 2026
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