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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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Voting rights as containment: V. Jo Hsu, ‘Voting rights, anti-intersectionality, and citizenship as containment’, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 106, 3, 2020, pp. 269-276
Statistics, erasure, citizenship: Desi Small-Rodriguez, Remaking Collective Identities: Statistical Statecraft, Indigenous Erasure, and Tribal Citizenship, PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, 2020
The First Intifada as a struggle against settler colonialism (not colonialism): Nadia Naser-Najjab, ‘Palestinian leadership and the contemporary significance of the First Intifada’, Race & Class, 2020
On allyship as decolonial practice: Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, ‘Empowering Relations: An Indigenous Understanding of Allyship in North America’, Journal of World Philosophies, 5, 1, 2020, pp. 30-42
Where settler colonialism does not apply: Breny Mendoza, ‘Decolonial Theories in Comparison’, Journal of World Philosophies, 5, 1, 2020, pp. 43-60
If you worry about ‘authenticity’ there is probably a reason: Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, ‘Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: “Authenticity: and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2020
Indigenous education sovereignty is sovereignty: Michelle Bishop, ‘A rationale for the urgency of Indigenous education sovereignty: enough’s enough’, Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
Northern settler colonialism today: Rauna Kuokkanen, ‘The Deatnu Agreement: a contemporary wall of settler colonialism’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2020
Abolishing the ‘native’: Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants, Duke University Press, 2020
Settler composite trajectories: Ann Curthoys, ‘From Montserrat to Settler-Colonial Australia: the Intersecting Histories of Caribbean Slave-owning Families, Transported British Radicals, and Indigenous Peoples’, History Workshop Journal, 2020
Settler colonialism as a ‘Satanic plot’: Erin G. Carlston, ‘”An Inverted Eden”: Modernity and Anti-Modernism in D’Arcy Cresswell’s The Forest’, Modernist Cultures, 15, 3, 2020, pp. 341-353
Settler lawfare and its limits: Bain Attwood, ‘The Limits of the Law in Claiming Rights to Land in a Settler Colony: South Australia in the Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century’, Law and History Review, 2020
Sociology discovers the settlers: Dwanna L. McKay, Kirsten Vinyeta, Kari Marie Norgaard, ‘Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology’, Sociology Compass, 2020
Composting settlers: Kristen B. French, Amy Sanchez, Eddy Ullom, ‘Composting Settler Colonial Distortions: Cultivating Critical Land-Based Family History’, Genealogy, 4, 84, 2020
It’s emotional (on triangular relations in a settler colonial context): Jane Lydon, Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2019
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