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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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Picking up a settler fight (on the outside): Steve Marti, For Home and Empire: Voluntary Mobilization in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the First World War, UBC Press, 2019
The settler search for indigeneity: David Chandler, Julian Reid, Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019
For settlers, ‘home’ is literally an extraction: Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, Lena Gross (eds), Extracting Home in the Oil Sands: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada, Routledge, 2019
Indigenous-settler collaborations augments reality: Rob McMahon, Amanda Almond, Greg Whistance-Smith, Diana Steinhauer, Stewart Steinhauer, Diane P. Janes, ‘Sweetgrass AR: Exploring Augmented Reality as a Resource for Indigenous–Settler Relations’, International Journal of Communication, 13, 2019, pp. 4530-4552
It’s not the European heritage; it’s the settler heritage: Joshua Cheetham, Frances Mao, ‘The countries grappling with their European heritage’, BBC News, 19/09/19
The business ethics of settler colonialism: Jurgen Poesche, ‘Business Ethics and Sovereignty in Settler Colonial States’, International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2019
Settler-colonial governmentality is not normal governmentality: Mark B Salter, ‘Arctic Security, Territory, Population: Canadian Sovereignty and the International’, International Political Sociology, 2019
Settler occupations in unexpected places: Borys Babin, Olena Grinenko, Anna Prykhodko, ‘Legal Statute and Perspectives for Indigenous Peoples in Ukraine’, in Liat Klain Gabbay, Indigenous, Aboriginal, Fugitive and Ethnic Groups Around the Globe, IntechOpen, 2019
Dispossession in the settler city: Elya Lucy Milner, ‘Devaluation, erasure and replacement: Urban frontiers and the reproduction of settler colonial urbanism in Tel Aviv’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2019
The gender of (Canada’s) settler (Indian) act: Martin J. Cannon, Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act, University of British Columbia Press, 2019
Repossession: Naama Blatman‐Thomas, ‘Reciprocal Repossession: Property as Land in Urban Australia’, Antipode, 2019
Gentrification as settler colonialism (i.e., an ongoing structure): Jean‐Paul D. Addie, James C. Fraser, ‘After Gentrification: Social Mix, Settler Colonialism, and Cruel Optimism in the Transformation of Neighbourhood Space’, Antipode, 2019
Land, labour, settlement: Laura Maravall Buckwalter, ‘Factor endowments on the “frontier”: Algerian settler agriculture at the beginning of the 1900s’, Economic History Review, 2019
Settler and working class (and claiming to be indigenous): Darren Reid, ‘Classy Subversions: Rethinking Grey Owl as a Subversive Character’, In/Versions, 2019, pp. 9-14
Settler law: Irene Watson, ‘Colonial logic and the Coorong massacres’, Adelaide Law Review, 40, 1, 2019, pp. 167-171
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