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« Camping settlers: Hope Rumford-Rodgers, Audrey R. Giles, Willow Scobie, ‘Christian summer camps for Indigenous youth in Canada: a settler colonial analysis’, Leisure, 2022
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A settlers’ convoy! Peter McLaren, ‘Some thoughts on Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” and the settler colonial state’, Education Philosophy and Theory, 2022

03Apr22

Excerpt: But it is difficult to find common ground with their concept of freedom, which I wish to emphasize is historically linked to settler colonialism, that is, a form of colonialism grounded in exogenous domination, a form of colonialism that seeks to displace the original population of the colonized territory with new groups of settlers who typically justify such colonization through an identification with imperial authority.

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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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    • Suburban settler colonialism: Sean Tyler, ‘The Settler-Suburban Imaginary: Improvement, John Claudius Loudon, and Colonial Dispossession in the Swan River Colony’, Fabrications, 2026
    • Settler colonial panopticons: Emily Lanman, ‘Panopticons in the antipodes: why Bentham’s reforms found success in Western Australia’, Journal of Bentham Studies 24, 1, 2026
    • Travellers as the antisettlement: TraVision, ‘To Be Settled or to Be Unsettled? The Historical Formation of the Settled Population in Ireland’, Zenodo, 22/10/26
    • The Indigenous response: Yann Allard-Tremblay, Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory, Oxford University Press, 2025
    • Violence, frozen and reheated: David Shane Lowry, ‘Frozen Violence: Understanding the Permanence of Genocide Against American Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples Within the United States and Canada’, in Scott Gac, Caroline E. Light (eds), American Violence: Histories, Structures, and Legacies, Routledge, 2026
    • If the gothic genre is about something from another world, then rez gothic is about settlers: Mallory Whiteduck, ‘Rez Gothic: Monstrous Aunties, Double Selves, and the Detritus of Settler Colonialism’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13, 2, 2026, pp. 38-61
    • Settler social sciences: Terry Wotherspoon, ‘Social Science and Settler Colonial Governance: The Panel on Indian Research’, Journal of Canadian Studies, 2026
    • Indigenous bodies are shaped by settler colonialism (this is why resistance is invincible): Rami Salameh, ‘Palestinian anti-colonial violence and conditions of non-being’, Race & Class, 2026
    • They liked what they saw: Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, ‘Nazi Views on Race and Genocide in Australia: A Comparative and Contrastive Approach’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2026
    • The limits of a paradigm: Jean Muteba Rahier, ‘The settler colonial studies paradigm as a discursive reaffirmation of the preeminence of Indigeneity in the field of ethnoracial alterity in the Andean sub-region’, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies’, 2026
    • Logocentric settlers: Janice Feng, ‘”Peoples Without Writing?” Logocentrism, settler colonialism, and indigeneity’, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 31, 5, 2026, pp. 33-49
    • The ‘traditional culture’ of settler colonialism: Anthea Compton, The Politics of Traditional Culture under Australian Settler Colonialism 1963-2007, Australian National University Press, 2026
    • Toxic, toxic, toxic: Noam Leshem, ‘Settler Toxicity: Contaminated Restitutions and the Contagion of Hope’, Antipode, 2026
    • Settler colonial unchilding: Nadera Shahloub-Kevorkian, ‘Children’s cartographies of refusal and life-making: wilfulness and decoloniality amid spaces of death in Gaza’, Children’s Geographies, 2026
    • Absent settler colonialism: Emma Brennan Chapman, Disappearing Connections: War, Absence, and Kin in New France and New England, 1680-1740, PhD dissertation, UC Davis, 2026
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