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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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Urban growth as settler colonialism: José Prada-Trigo, Natalia Aravena, Pablo Barra, ‘Urban growth and indigenous land. Real estate strategies and urban dynamics in Temuco (Chile)’, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 2021
Indo-American revolutionary doctrine (Indigenism against imperialism): Jack Englehardt, ‘A Lenin for the Americas: Raúl Haya de la Torre and the Forgotten Story of Indigenous Revolutionary Socialism’, The St Andrews Economist, 2021
Unlearning settler/Westphalian sovereignty: Harald Bauder, Rebecca Mueller, ‘Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challenging Colonial Territorial Governance’, Geopolitics, 2021
Cinema is settler colonial: Agata Frymus, ‘Pocahontas and Settler Colonialism in Early Film, 1907– 1910’, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 60, 3, 2021, pp. 83-103
On settler colonial utopias: David Puthoff, ‘”To Make Discoveries in Those Latitudes”: Utopia and Settler Colonialism in Equality; or, a History of Lithconia’, Utopian Studies, 32, 1, 2021, pp. 73-89
Summarising settler colonialism for legal practitioners: Sarah Hunt, ‘Settler Colonialism’, in Mariana Valverde, Kamari Clarke, Eve Darian-Smith, Prabha Kotiswaran (eds), Routledge Handbook of Law and Society, Routledge, 2021
A settler colonial liberal peace? Brendan Ciarán Browne, ‘Disrupting Settler-Colonialism or Enforcing the Liberal “Peace”? Transitional (In)justice in Palestine-Israel’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 20, 1, 2021
Yoga against settler colonialism: Stephanie D. Hicks, ‘Incomplete: Impeding the settler colonial project through Yoga for Black Lives’, in Cara Hagan (ed.), Practicing Yoga as Resistance, Routledge, 2021
Writing on writing from the frontier: Anna Johnston, Elizabeth Webby (eds), Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier, Sydney University Press, 2021
Settler possessions: Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, ‘Possessing Land, Wind and Water in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca’, Australian Feminist Studies, 2021
Parallel intifadas: Chandni Desai, ‘Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2021
Settler colonising ceremony itself: Stacie Swain, ‘Ceremony and the symbolic re-appropriation of indigeneity: A feminist critique of settler colonialism in a progressive liberal democratic nation-state’, in Kathleen McPhillips, Naomi Goldenberg (eds), The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State, Routledge, 2020
Settler Canada’s genocides: Sidney L. Harring, ‘”Shooting a Black Duck”: Genocidal Settler Violence against Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of Canada’, in Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies, Routledge, 2019
Against algorithmic settler colonialism: Joshua D. Miner, ‘Critical Protocols in Indigenous Gamespace’, Games and Culture, 2021
Italian settlers: Roberta Biasillo, Claudio de Majo, Daniele Valisena, ‘Environments of Italianness: for an environmental history of Italian migrations’, Modern Italy, 2021
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