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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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Belabouring the labour of Palestinian labour: Anonymous, ‘Superfluous Labor: The Settler Colonial “Turn” in the Study of Palestine’, Qui Parle (2026) 35, 1, 2026, pp. 121-163
Biopolitical settler colonialism: Dawit Tesfay Haile, ‘Settler colonial biopolitics at the border: a transnational entanglement of law, medical sciences, and migration control at Ellis Island’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
At this point we should not ‘care’: Girish Daswani, ‘How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide’, American Anthropologist, 2026
What settler colonialism therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers: Janna Lynell Martin Rogers, Human Categorization: A History of Race Science and Trafficking Indigenous Remains’, MA dissertation, Oklahoma State University, 2027
Settler colonialism as peer review: Nimrod Lin, ‘Zionist comparisons to settler colonies before 1948’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
The monogamous settler: T. J. Tallie, Conjugal States: The Queerness of Nonmonogamy in Settler Worlds, University of Minnesota Press, 2027
Indigenous peoples define health as self-determination (I know, right?): Laura Gemmell-Sinnott, Miriam Laugesen, Robin Quigg, ‘How do Indigenous peoples define health? A systematic review of definitions across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States’, Qualitative Research in Health, 2026, #100874
More food for settler thought: Molly Stollmeyer, Kristen Lowitt, Catherine Littlefield, Charles Z. Levkoe, Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, ‘Motivations driving settler food movement organizations in Canada to engage with Indigenous peoples’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
Settlers representing settlers: Cole Virk, The settler culture of colonial spectacle: A study of settler colonial erasure and assimilation of Indigenous representations, PhD dissertation, University of Sheffield, 2026
Redestricting other peoples: Robert Vargas, Paola Del Toro, Christina Cano, Xing Zhang, ‘Settler colonialism and community protection from redistricting’, Geoforum, 2026, #104830
Doubts about settlerhood: Timothy S. Forest, ‘Muddied Waters: Crofter Colonisation and the Contingency of “British” and “Scottish” Whiteness in 1880s New Zealand’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
Mobile settlers: Prue Laidlaw, D. H. R. Spennemann, C. Allan, ‘The Role of Itinerancy in Australian History: Rethinking the Settler Narrative’, Australian Historical Studies, 2026
Humanitarian settler colonialism: Pietro Stefanini, ‘Populating Colonized Palestine: The Role of Humanitarianism in the Demographic Project of Zionist Settler-Colonial Replacement, 1938-52’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2026
Anti-racism mandates that promote racism are a reliable disappointment: Soma Chatterjee, Shirin Shahrokni, ‘Keeping Palestine out of anti-racism: A critique of institutional equity, diversity and inclusion mandate’, Critical Sociology, 2026
The land-for-settlers-education-for-settlers deal: Tamson Pietsch, ‘Ninety Million Acres: Public Education and Land Endowments in Australia and the Anglo-settler World’, History of Education Quarterly, 2026
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