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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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A ‘travesty’, or just settler colonialism? Leyland Cecco, ‘”National travesty”: report shows one third of Canada’s prisoners are Indigenous’, The Guardian, 23/01/20
The settler wants a new psychology: Konrad Szocik, Steven Abood, Chris Impey, Mark Shelhamer, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Erik Persson, Lluis Oviedo, Klara Anna Capova, Martin Braddock, Margaret Boone Rappaport, Christopher Corbally, ‘Visions of a Martian future’, Futures, 117, 2020, 102514
Beyond place, settler colonialism: Simone Thornton, Mary Graham, Gilbert Burgh, ‘Reflecting on place: environmental education as decolonisation’, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Beyond safety, settler colonialism: Heather Dorries, Laura Harjo, ‘Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning’, Journal of Planning and Education Research, 2020
The musicology of giving sound back: Jessica Bissett Perea, Gabriel Solis, ‘Asking the Indigeneity Question of American Music Studies’, Journal of the Society for American Music, 13, 4, 2019, pp. 401-410
The geography of giving land back: Andrew Curley, Sara Smith, ‘Against colonial grounds: Geography on Indigenous lands’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020
Settler storying: Katrine Barber, ‘”We were at our journey’s end”: Settler Sovereignty Formation in Oregon’, Oregon Historical Quarterly, 120, 4, 2019, pp. 382-413
Benevolent settlers: Eva Bischoff, Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Quaker Lives and Ideals, Palgrave, 2020
Appropriating the settler appropriation of ‘nativeness’: Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants, Duke University Press, 2020
A ‘convergence’ of settler colony and metropole? Yasmeen Abu‐Laban, ‘Immigration and Settler‐Colonies Post‐UNDRIP: Research and Policy Implications’, International Migration, 2019
The crisis of the ‘crisis’ of settler colonialism: Efrat Arbel, ‘Rethinking the “Crisis” of Indigenous Mass Imprisonment’, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 34, 3, 2019 , pp. 437-456
Settling literally on the language: Colby Y. Miyose, Eean Grimshaw, ‘Ua mau ke ea o ka ‘āina i ka pono: Cultural appropriation of the Hawaiian language in Hawaii Five-0’, PRism, 15, 1, 2019, pp. 1-17
Children settlers: Jonna Perrillo, ‘At Home on the Range: Cowboy Culture, Indians, and the Assimilation of Enemy Children in the Cold War Borderlands’, American Quarterly, 71, 4, 2019 pp. 945-967
Calling settler colonial genocide: Craig Nessan, ‘Calling a Thing What It Is Confronting the American Genocide of Indigenous Peoples’, Currents in Theology and Mission, 47, 1, 2020
The socio-spatial positionalities of settler colonialism: Antoine Garrault, ‘The young activists of Ramallah against the Israeli occupation: Forms of commitment and socio-spatial positionalities’, Participations, 3, 2019, pp. 165-193
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