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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 settler’s hill: Maya Charlton, “On This Very Hill”: Narratives of Conquest in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, PhD dissertation, Leigh University, 2026
Even self-colonisation requires an Indigenous other! Kosuke Shimizu, ‘Eurocentrism and the construction of the ‘self’ in colonialism: The Okinawa–Japan relationality’, Political Studies Review, 2026
The settler colonial limit of acceptability: Mark Mallory, ‘The Names of Four Scouts: Slavery, Settler Colonialism, and the Limits of Incorporation at the Texas Capitol Complex since 1983’, Journal of Texas History, 2, 1, 2026, #4
Environmental resistance against settler colonialism: Holly Randell-Moon (ed.), Environments of power: Vibrant terrain and landscapes of resistance, Manchester University Press, 2026
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Crimea as a settler colony: Mariia Shynkarenko, Identity as Weapon: Crimean Tatars and their Quest for Indigenous Self-determination, University of Toronto Press, 2026
Settlers Magdalenism (i.e., rescuing ‘fallen’ women for the purpose of settlement): Marine Berthiot ‘Decolonising the Character of the Magdalene in White Settler Colonies’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2026
Post-settler disorder and colonial contact fatigue: Jenny Morgan, ‘Naming the Fatigue, Rekindling the Fire: Gitxsan Matriarchs’ Fight Against Colonial Disorder’, Fourth World Journal, 26, 1
Transubstantiation (migrants into settlers): Lisa Ruth Brunner, Antje Ellermann, ‘Making immigrants into settlers: settler colonial common sense in Canadian citizenship guides’, Citizenship Studies, 2026
Settlers on the move: Jillian Louise Hahnlen Conroy, The Ober Homestead Site: A Study Investigating the Research Potential of Nineteenth Century Sites Located along the Wagon Roads of Southern California, PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 2026
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