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« Again, about the university as a settler colonial space: Sharon Stein, ‘Reflections on “Unsettling the University” and Its Call to Responsibility’, Critical Internationalization studies Review, 2, 1, 2023
Settler philanthropy reinforces settler colonialism (even when they say they’d rather not): Damien Lee, ‘Remaining Unreconciled: Philanthropy and Indigenous Governance in Canada’, aboriginal policy studies, 10, 2, 2023, pp. 3-32 »

A settler is precisely someone who thinks that settlers do not exist: Noam Leshem, Jen Bagelman, ‘Unsettling “The Settler”‘, Society + Space, 23/01/23

02Feb23

Excerpt: Who is ‘the Settler’? What does this category animate and what does it bely? Despite the vast scholarship on histories of settler colonisation, the complex figure of the settler remains largely taken for granted. This lends itself to a banal decolonial politics that urgently requires critique.

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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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    • Classic: Dinah Wouters, Susanna de Beer (eds), Classical Receptions and Settler Colonialism: A Reader, University of Groningen Press, 2026
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    • AI settler stereotyping: Sandra De Berduccy, ‘A genealogy of stereotypes: the representation of Indigenous Peoples with generative AI’, in Andreas Rauh et al, Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity: Between Dreams and Hallucinations, University of London Press, 2026, pp. 121-133
    • Fourth World rising: Michael Humeniuk, The Fourth World in the global Village: Indigenous Anti-Colonialism, Media, and Exchange in the Global Sixties, PhD dissertation, University of Waterloo, 2026
    • The sound of settler decolonialism: Van Armenian, Decolonization to Degenociding: Reimagining Settler Canadian and Indigenous Futures Through Music, PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 2026
    • Wasted settlers: Soham Chakraborty, ‘Settlers and Colonialisms: Food, Waste, Abjection, and the Ethical Reconfiguration of Settler Relationalities in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians’, in Myra Hird, Cecilia Åsberg (eds), Oxford Intersections: Cultures of Waste, Oxford, 2026
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