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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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Sympathetic settlers: Erin Akerman, Unsettling Sympathy: Indigenous and Settler Conversations from the Great Lakes Region, 1820-1860, PhD dissertation, University of Western Ontario, 2021
The yeoman ideal: R. R. Henderson, ‘The ties that bind: the enduring strength of the yeoman ideal in North-West Tasmania 1860-2000’, PhD dissertation, University of Tasmania, 2020
Between settler government and settler Facebook Indigenous media gets shafted: Naomi Moran, ‘First Nations media has been caught in the crossfire of Facebook’s battle with Australian news’, The Guardian, 23/02/21
The settler colonial logic of elimination: Michael Clarke, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Path toward Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang’, Global Responsibility to Protect, 13, 1, 2021, pp. 9-19
Settlers focus on their firstness to dosavow some else’s: Liora R. Halperin, ‘Anniversaries of :first” settlement and the politics of Zionist commemoration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2021
Black feminism and settler colonialism III: Tiffany Lethabo King, ‘Some Black feminist notes on Native feminisms and the flesh’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2021
Black feminism and settler colonialism II: Terrion L. Williamson, ‘Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2021
Black feminism and settler colonialism: Iyko Day, ‘On Immanence and Indeterminacy: Black Feminism and Settler Colonialism’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2021
Digital mapping against settler colonialism: Janet Berry Hess (ed.), Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, Routledge, 2021
Intimate settler colonialism: Allyson Stevenson, Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship, University of Toronto Press, 2020
Ethnogenesis on the settler frontier: Jennifer Adese, Chris Andersen (eds), A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies, UBC Press, 2021
Settler colonial policing: Andrew Crosby, ‘The racialized logics of settler colonial policing: Indigenous ‘communities of concern’ and critical infrastructure in Canada’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2021
Warrior women against settler colonialism: Kiara M. Vigil, ‘Warrior Women: Recovering Indigenous Visions across Film and Activism’ Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 60, 2, 2021, pp. 169-174
The intimacy of settler colonialism: Shannon Toll, ‘Through ‘My Mother’s’ eyes – settler spatializations & Mohawk masculinity in E. Pauline Johnson’s “My Mother”‘, Settler Colonial Studies, 2021
Post-settler healing as a dramatic production? Sarah MacKenzie, ‘Community and resistance in Marie Clements’ The Unnatural and Accidental Women’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2021
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