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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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Accounting, recounting settler colonialism: Rania Kamla, ‘The scream and accounting scholarship: the genocide in Palestine’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 103, 2026, #102858
Pleading settlers: Darren Reid, ‘Letters to the Editor as Performative Imperial Citizenship: Settler Letters to British Newspapers in the late Nineteenth Century’, Britain and the World, 19, 1, 2026
Teaching as a right relation: Aimee de Ney, Remembering Right Relations: A Land-Centered Framework for Settler Teacher Transformation, PhD dissertation, Antioch University, 2026
The waters of settler colonialism: Alana Sayers, Revitalizing Hupač̓asatḥ navigational knowledge: Mapping the waters of settler-colonialism using a critical, coastal, community-based consciousness, PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2026
Settler colonialism as a warning: Mason McCarthy, ‘Deforestation as a Consequence of Viking Settlement: A Case Study of Iceland’, JUST, 10, 2026
The ‘choice’ of settlers: Gavin Meyer Furrey, ‘Native Voice, Settler Choice: Oceti Sakowin Charter Schools and the Contradictions of South Dakota School Choice Policies’, Ethnic Studies Review, 49, 1, 2026, pp. 90-109
The selective memory of settlers: Angel M. Hinzo, ‘Not Your “Queen”, Not Your “Sq**w”: Reclaiming Ho-Chunk Histories of Hąpoguwįga and Challenging Settler Memory’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13, 1, 2026, pp. 100-126
It’s the political economy of settler colonialism, s: Phil Henderson, Shiri Pasternak, ‘The Political Economies of Ongoing Settler Colonialism’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13, 1, 2026, pp. 266-272
The women of settler colonialism: Carla Joubert, Barberton Daisies: Women and Settler Colonialism in the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and Alberta in the Nineteenth Century, PhD dissertation, Western University, 2026
Introducing Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, Julia Hurst, ‘Omtroduction’, in Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, Julia Hurst (eds), Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won’t Settlers Listen? Springer, 2026, pp. 1-21
Spying settlers: Merve Gönlühoş Elmas, ‘Espionage as a Settler-Colonial Practice: The Case of the Palestine–Syrian Front During World War I’, Middle East Critique, 2026
Mennonite settler colonialism in Ukraine: John R. Staples, Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine, University of Toronto Press, 2024
The key words: Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, ‘Settler Colonial Keywords for New Area Studies: Land, Labour, and Language in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897)’, in Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett, Sarah Garland, Malcolm McLaughlin, Thomas Ruys Smith, John Wills (eds), American Studies in the Age of New Area Studies: Infinite Space, Routledge, 2026
Indigenous and at home: Jacek Anderst , Keziah Bennett-Brooka, Tamara Mackean, ‘Flipping the script on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and housing: a call for strengths based discourse in Australian housing research’, International Journal of Housing Policy, 2026
Settlers and their pests: Jodie Evans, Abbi Virens, ‘Nuisance Over Nuance: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Online Media’, New Zealand Geographer, 2026
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