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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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Once a settler, always a settler: Nikhil Pal Singh, ‘The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset’, The Boston Review, 26/11/19
‘In this glancing touch is a preview of the whole of settler colonialism, sordid, indelible, irreversible’: Jason Farago, ‘The Myth of North America, in One Painting’, The New York Times, 25/11/20
Settler colonial novels: Zachary R. Hernandez, ‘Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather’s Frontier Novels: Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor’s House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop’, in Jada Ach, Gary Reger (eds), Reading Aridity in Western American Literature, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020
Settler colonialism is a pandemic: Renisa Mawani, ‘A Historical Account of the Pandemic: Health, Colonialism and Racism in Canada’, RSC, 12/11/20
The settler and the migrant, and the question of revolution: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Displaced: John Mulgan’s Man Alone and Guido Morselli’s The Communist’, Journal of New Zealand Literature, 38, 1, 2020, pp. 84-104
The limits of settler colonial studies: Lucy Taylor, ‘Four foundations of settler colonial theory: four insights from Argentina’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2020
Indigeneity against self-determination: José Pedro Monteiro, ‘From ‘Natives’ to ‘Aborigines’: Late Colonialism, Indigenous Rights and the Global Politics of Sovereignty (1953–1962)’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2020
Settler ‘total archives’: J. J. Ghaddar, ‘Total archives for land, law and sovereignty in settler Canada’, Archival Science, 2020
Settlers targeting children: Elisabeth Wesseling, Mavis Reimer, ‘Child Separation Projects as a Strategy of Colonisation’, International Research in Children’s Literature, 13, 2, 2020, pp. 231-241
Settler evidence: Emma Cunliffe, ‘The Magic Gun: Settler Legality, Forensic Science and the Stanley Trial’, The Canadian Bar Review, 98, 2, 2020
Settlers and fire: Colin R. Sutherland, Pyrogeography in Context: Encountering Wildland Fire in Canadian National Parks, PhD dissertation, York University, 2020
Settlers paying the rent: Ester Topolářová , ‘Creating Constitutive Solidarity in Seattle: Praxis between the Duwamish Tribe and the Real Rent Duwamish Movement’, Identity, 2020
Demanding: Sophie Rudolph, ‘Demanding dialogue in an unsettled settler state: implications for education and justice’, History of Education Review, 2020
Dispossession is the foundation of settler orders: Emilie Connolly, ‘Panic State Power, and Chickasaw Dispossession’, Journal of the Early Republic, 40, 4, 2020, pp. 683-689
Escaping and embracing the settler state: Daniel Dupre, ‘Frontiers Knit Together and Unraveled: The Rhetoric of Land Relief in an Age of Boom and Bust’, Journal of the Early Republic, 40, 4, 2020, pp. 677-682
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