« The public-provate partnership of settler violence: Jonathan Obert, ‘State-Building, Settler Colonialism, and Policing the Nineteenth-Century American West’, in James Campbell, Vivien Miller (eds), The Routledge History of Crime in America, Routledge, 2024
Knowing about settler colonialism is a transferable skill: Natalie Calleja, Norfiza Mohammad Zali, Ameena L. Payne, Keara Quadros, Sophie Rudolph, Rosie Yasmin, ‘Intersecting settler colonialisms: Implications for teaching Palestine in Australia Education’, Curriculum Perspectives, 2024 »

The underdevelopment of settler colonialism: Juan Sebastián Galán, ‘Crown Versus Settler Colonialism in Mexico’, Serie Documentos Cede, 05/11/24

06Dec24

Abstract: This paper examines the persistent eects of Crown versus settler colonialism. Exploiting a spatial regression discontinuity design in Mexico, I document that regions where the relative power of the colonial state over settler elites was higher exhibit higher historical and contemporary economic prosperity. In contrast to the view that Crown judges disproportionately weakened property rights, court records analyzed with natural language processing algorithms suggest they constrained settlers from expropriating indigenous lands. In the long-run, a feedback loop appears to have consolidated an emerging rural middle class, whose relative enfranchisement tied it less to patronage politics, encouraging public good provision and labor mobility out of agriculture.


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