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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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Expropriation, inequality, settler colonialism (in the long run): Jeremy Bowles, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Michael Olson, ‘”To Hell or to Connacht”: Expropriation, Inequality, and Local Legacies of Settler Colonialism’, International Organization, 2026
Data centres settle the land: Megan A. Carney, ‘”No One Drop for Data”: Restoring Metabolic Relations amidst Parasitic Settler Colonialism’, Antipode, 2026
Living and naming: Yacoub Al-Qasasfa, ‘Colonialism, the Politics of Naming and Lived Toponymy: Identity Struggle and Symbolic Erasure in Palestine’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 25, 2, 2026, pp. 215-247
De-growing settler colonialism: Elena Gomez, ‘Degrowth and the Indigenous ecopoetics of dg nanouk okpik’s Blood Snow’, Textual Practice, 2026
The crime of settler indigenisation: Olivia Meier, ‘Playing Pretend: Why Indigenous Identity Fraud Demands a Crime’, UBC Law Review, 59, 2, 2026, pp. 465-508
Settler colonialism from the cities: Jiaxiang Liu, ‘The Japanese Paradigm of Settler Colonial Urbanism: Imperial Hokkaidō, Korea, and Manchuria’, Geography Compass, 2026
The settler colonial archetype: Hanine Shehadeh, The Thousand-Year Crusade for Palestine: Zionist Christianity and the Settler Jew, University of California Press, 2027
The feral cats of settler colonialism: Christopher M Kelty, ‘Cats v. birds: Settler delegations and arbitrary domination in Los Angeles’, Critique of Anthropology, 46, 3, 2026, pp. 358-377
The violent friendly settler frontier: Alexandra Ludewig, Clint Bracknell, ‘Rehabilitation on a Friendly Frontier: John McKail, Settler-Colonial Violence, and the Making of Respectability in Early Western Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, 2026
Settler regrowth: Elliott Michael Reichardt, The second growth: Indigenous resurgence, settler adaptation, and the possibility of repair in the forests of the Canadian North, PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 2026
The settler colony in its memory: Jérémy Girardeau-Montaut, ‘Pied-Noir “Memory Without Territory” and the Trans-Mediterranean Politics of Colonial Reconstruction’, Oxford Middle East Review, 10, 1, 2026, pp. 69-90
Collaborative settler colonial studies: Janne Lahti, introducing ‘Of settler colonial connections and collaborations: a book forum on Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
Settlers on the move; still settlers: Monique Woolnough, ‘Reproducing the French-Canadian Settler Collective in Ontario through French Language Rights’, Journal of Law and Social Policy, 38, 2026, pp. 64-86
Indigenous people on the move; still Indigenous: Luis Sánchez-López, ‘Oaxacan Studies: Accompanying Indigenous Oaxacans in Oaxacalifornia’, Latino Studies, 2026
The settler’s prohibition: Conner White, Publicans and other bloodsuckers: Enforcement of Indigenous prohibition in colonial British Columbia, 1849-1871, MA dissertation, University of Victoria, 2026
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