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« Boom settlers: Mary E. Thomas, Bruce Braun (eds), Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil, University of Minnesota Press, 2023
Settling on science fiction: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Settler Colonialism and Science Fiction: Imagining the Worlds Turned Inside Out’, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, 2023 »

The world turned inside out today? Joseph Bernstein, ‘Who Would Give This GuyMillions to Build His Own Utopia? Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers’, New York Times, 12/12/23

14Dec23

Excerpt: When he took the stage at a conference for “start-up societies” in Amsterdam in October,27-year-old Dryden Brown cut a rumpled figure, moving stiffly in a gray hoodie with a T-shirt poking out at the bottom. He was there to tout his company, Praxis, which has an ambitious goal: to create a newcity on the Mediterranean.

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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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    • An Irish island in the bush … Ronan McDonald, ‘Hy-Brasil in Australia: Irish myth and settler belonging’, Southerly, 81, 1, 2026, pp. 234-244
    • Ungrounding while unhinged: Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, Fern Press, 2026
    • Good question: Alessandra Spadaro, ‘International Law and Racial Capitalism in Palestine: Occupation Gone Wrong or Settler Colonialism Done Right?’ Third World Approaches to International Law, 7, 2026
    • The current settler colonial conjuncture: Shannon Speed, ‘Hearing Her Breathing: Indigenous Knowledges and the World Beyond Settler Capitalism’, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 54, 3-4, 2026, pp. 351-355
    • The settler in good relation? Jordyn Sheldon, ‘The Land in My Pocket: Unsettling Portals from Palestine to Turtle Island’, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 54, 3-4, 2026, pp. 153-163
    • The good settler? Richard Shaw, The Good Settler: Essays from other people’s lands, Massey University Press, 2026
    • Invasion to Embassy and beyond: Heidi Norman, ‘Thirty years after Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales 1770–1972, the Aboriginal land demand continues’, History Australia, 2026
    • Intersections and settler colonialism: Terry Wotherspoon, ‘Contradictory intersections of class and race in settler colonial societies’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2026
    • Classic: Dinah Wouters, Susanna de Beer (eds), Classical Receptions and Settler Colonialism: A Reader, University of Groningen Press, 2026
    • Settler conscription: Daniela Bascuñán, ‘Reimagining Refugee Childhoods: From Settler Conscription to Relational Ways of Welcome and Belonging’, in Zuhra Abawi, Nidhi Menon, Sofia Noori, Alana Butler, Hassina Alizai (eds), Refugee Education in Canada: Navigating the Politics of Belonging, Emerald, 2026
    • 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
    • Foreclosing settler colonialism (also dishonestly): Rosanne Kennedy, ‘Decolonial memory frictions: Tracking the tent in activism, art and memory from Indigenous Australia to Palestine’, Memory Studies, 19, 5, 2026, pp. 1500-1524
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