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« It is ONE Indigenous struggle against settler colonialism: Jamal Nabulsi, ‘Reclaiming Palestinian Indigenous Sovereignty’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2023
Edugration is settler colonialism: Lisa Ruth Brunner, ‘Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis’, Higher Education Research & Development, 42, 5, 2023, pp. 1086-1102 »

Settler political mythology 101: Steven Johnston, ‘John Ford’s Legendary Western Ambiguity and White Settler Colonialism’, in Damien K. Picariello (ed.), The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics, Palgrave, 2023, pp. 47-63

22Jun23

Abstract: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a profound meditation on the paradoxical phenomenon of political founding worthy of Machiavelli (The Machiavelli of The Discourses, that is). In it, Ford tells the story of a democratic political community that comes into being thanks to the heroic intervention of an outsider, Ransom Stoddard, who happens to arrive in it one day, and effectively forces its citizens to be free.

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    • And now, ending a massive year in settler colonialism (and inaugurating the Permanent Observatory on Settler Colonialism): Ohio Barbarian, ‘We Are All Indigenous Now: How financial cleansing supplanted ethnic cleansing in the United States’, 29/12/25
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    • Fe(de)ral settler colonialism: Éléna Choquette, ‘Settler Federalism and the Conditions of Indigenous Autonomy: A Comparative Study’, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2025
    • Violence, slow and fast: Elena Ruíz, Structural Violence: The Makings of Settler Colonial Impunity, Oxford University Press, 2024
    • Schooling settler colonialism: Meredith McCoy, On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy, University of Nebraska Press, 2024
    • Outing settler colonialism: Caitlin Keliiaa, Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, University of Washington Press, 2024
    • Sovereignty is a powerful story: Angela K. Parker, Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold, University of Oklahoma Press, 2024
    • Alternative settlers (again, on gastro-settler colonialism): Angie Sassano, ‘Between gourds and saltbush: the politics of race, coloniality, and recognition in Australia’s alternative food movements’, Agriculture and Human Values, 43, 2026, #14
    • Shopping settler colonialism: Steve Penfold, The Dominion of Shoppers: Canadian Consumption from Hudson’s Bay to eBay, University of Toronto Press, 2026
    • Alien monsters: Niamh Gallagher, ‘Indigenous monsters and the spectres of assimilation: Jon Bell’s The Moogai (2024) as Aboriginal Gothic’, Studies in Australasian Cinema, 2025
    • Ritual settler colonialism: Joshua Zentner-Barrett, ‘With Orca, Goose, and Bear: Expanding Canada’s Ritual Body’, Toronto Journal of Theology, 41, 2, 2025
    • Against Mestizo settler colonialism: Ashley Ngozi Agbasoga, ‘Against Mestizaje: Articulations Towards a Black/Indigenous Sense of Place in Mexico’, Antipode, 2025
    • Policing the settler order in French Algeria: Samuel Kalman, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1954, Cornell University Press, 2024
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    • Settler bodies: Lisa Guenther, ‘Unsettling Perception: A Critical Phenomenology of Settler Colonial Body Schemas’, in Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Délia Popa (eds), Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life: Social Critique, Sense-Institution, and Political Emancipation, Springer, 2026, pp. 255-268
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