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« Obviously settler colonialism: Adam HOgan, ‘Competing Administrations in Palestine: Imperial Power and Settler Regimes in the British Empire’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 19, 2, 2020, pp. 191-209
Settler and colonial empires, articulated: Aziz Rana, ‘How We Study the Constitution: Rethinking the Insular Cases and Modern American Empire’, The Yale Law Journal, 130, 2020-21 »

Settlers amongst us! Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, ‘Historicizing the Transpacific Settler Colonial Condition: Asian–Indigenous Relations in Shawn Wong’s Homebase and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer’, Melus, 2020

07Nov20

Excerpt: Following the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the eponymous first-person narrator in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer (2015) is processed in a refugee camp on the US unincorporated territory of Guam before resettling in Southern California. There, he is invited by a famous Hollywood director, modeled after Francis Ford Coppola but identified only as “the Auteur” in the novel, to attest to the ethnic authenticity of The Hamlet. In this Vietnam War film—Nguyen’s stand-in for Apocalypse Now (1979)—a blonde Green Beret is tasked…

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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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    • More settler made disasters: Kate Fitch, Treena Clark, Lee Edward, ‘Authentic or performative? Social licence to operate in settler colonial contexts – Rio Tinto, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples and the destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters’, Communication and the Public, 2026
    • Settler made disaster: Jackie Erlon-Baurjan, ‘The Fugitive Steppe: Climate and Colonialism on the Kazakh Steppe, 1860–1916’, Environment and History, 2026
    • Settler self-government leads to settler colonialism (I know, right?): Jarett Henderson, ‘Elections, Self-Government, and Settler-Colonial Rule in British North America’, in Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Andrew W Robertson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas, 1800–1910, Oxford Academic, 2026
    • Can the Indigenous person speak? Stephen Gray, ‘Petitioners, Protestors or Protectors? A Short History of Indigenous People and Protest’, in Azadeh Dastyari, Maria O’Sullivan (eds), International Law and the Regulation of Protest, Routledge, 2026
    • The city of settler colonialism: Rebecca Kiddle, ‘Beyond inclusion: reckoning with settler colonial cities’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • Settler colonial epistempophilia: Alexis Shotwell, ‘Learning How To Not Steal: Settler Practices for Being in Relation to Indigenous Sovereignties in Entangled Worlds’, Theory & Event, 29, 1, 2026, pp. 140-157
    • Off white? Fully settler: Uzma Jamil, ‘Off-White: The tensions of Whiteness in Quebec’, Identities, 2025
    • Municipal settler colonialism: Margaret Ellis-Young, Municipal Interpretations of Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Planning for Urban Redevelopment and Regeneration, PhD dissertation, University of Waterloo, 2025
    • Thrivance as the end of settler colonialism: Ashik Istiak, Fairooz Saiyara, ‘From survivance to thrivance: the becoming of a defiant Indian self in Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories’, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 13, 1, 2026, #2623567
    • The settler colonial sovereignty of policing: Brieanna Watters, Policing Sovereignty: Tribal-State Policing Agreements and Settler Colonial Governance, PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2025
    • Humanitarian settlers are absolutely settlers: Darren Reid, ‘Indigenous Rights, Philanthropy and Humanitarian Governance across the Anglo World, 1837–1951’, The Historical Journal, 2026
    • The great settler unpollination: Gabriella R. Altmire, Richard York, ‘The Anthophilic rift: advancing a sociology of biodiversity loss through the pollination crisis’, Environmental Sociology, 2026
    • The well being of a settler society: Krista Maxwell, Indigenous Healing as Paradox: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony, University of Alberta Press, 2025
    • A regional settler identity: Andrew Watson, Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920, UBC Press, 2023
    • Positionality against settler colonialism: Dan Frederick Orcherton, ‘From Dust We Came and from Dust We Shall Return: Settler Scholar Positionality, Equity and Collaborative Commitment in Higher Education Reform’, Journal of Policy & Governance, 5, 2, 2025, pp. 21, 56
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