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« The settler home is mobile: Nicholas Shapiro, ‘Manufacturing Home’, Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22, 2, 2019, pp. 121-124
Settlers are good, anxious, racist people: Lisa Slater, ‘Good White People: Settler Colonial Anxiety and the Endurance of Racism’, Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 3, 2, 2019, pp. 266–281 »

Settlers need expanses (they manufacture them): Kristen Simmons, ‘Expanse’, Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22, 2, 2019, pp. 103-105

24Nov19

Abstract: The federal government owns more land in Nevada than any other state. While the acquisition of land as territory is central to the project of settler colonialism, this essay expands the frame by considering the atmospherics of rural America through an indigenous analytic. Reflecting on aboveground atomic testing, the growth of Air Force bases, and conservation imaginaries, the essay examines the work that goes into producing emptiness and what the dream of the expanse allows.

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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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