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Trumpean settler colonialism: Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, ‘Settler colonialism in Donald Trump’s America’, The Geographical Journal, 2025

20May25

Abstract: This commentary contends with the broader settler colonial structures through which the second Donald Trump presidency may proceed. Through a historical and contemporaneous engagement with broader concepts such as settler colonialism and the ‘frontier’, this piece grapples with how Indigenous nations can ensure their continued vitality through this political moment.

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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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    • Providential settler colonialism: Laura Rademaker, ‘Providence and the Destiny of the “Heathen” in Australia’s Settler Colonies, 1788-1860s’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2026, #lfag011
    • Settlers come to stay: Tin Pham Nguyen, ‘Rooted in the ‘lucky country’: settler permanence, emigration ambivalence, and national identity in Australia, National Identities, 2026
    • Really JICH? Amir Goldstein, Elad Nahshon, ‘From Partnership to Revolt: The Dialectics of SettlerColonial Consciousness in the Zionist Right’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
    • The critical psyche against settler colonialism: Lee-Anne Broadhead, Christine Gwynn, Sean Howard, ‘he Critical Psyche: Jung, Marcuse and the Aesthetics of Social Change in an Era of Indigenous Resurgence’, International Journal of Jungian Studies, 2026
    • It’s time: Genevieve Renard Painter, ‘As If a Foreign Country: Evidence Law and Settler Colonial Sovereignty’, in Paolo Amorosa, Ville Erkkilä, Karolina Stenlund (eds), Times of Global Injustice, Routledge, 2026
    • Settlers vs. Indigenes in Nigeria: Anthony Imeh Umoh, Victoria Edet Okon, ‘Dynamics of Indigene/ Settler Conflicts in the Northern Senatorial Zone of Plateau State, Nigeria (1994-2012)’, International Journal of Finance Management and Governance, 2, 1, 2026
    • Settler colonial ambivalences (but it is actually simpler: neither imperial, nor decolonial – settler colonial): Elizabeth E. Imber, Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism, Stanford University Press, 2025
    • The settler’s arrested development: Shuya Su, ‘Indigenous Girlhood, Radical Resurgence, and the Question of Settler Growth in Jen Ferguson’s The Summer of Bitter and Sweet’, Children’s Literature in Education, 2026
    • Digital dispossession: Tyler McCreary, David Hugill, ‘Digital Colonialism, Fossil Capitalism, and Indigenous Dispossession’, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2026
    • The colony as a prison: L. N. Billington, ‘L.N. (2026). ‘Incarceration as Colonisation: Indigenous Imprisonment and Self-Determination in Australia and Kanaky’, in T. Anthony, M. Bhatia, K. Pillay, J. M. Williams (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, pp. 245-270
    • Words matters (colonialist entomologists): Janice Vis, ‘Whose Colony? Rethinking Terminology and Insect Relations’, Environmental Humanities, 18, 1, 2026, pp. 78-95
    • Sabotage as counterinfrastructure: Kyle R. Matthews, Joanna Kidman, Sophie Bond, Karen Nairn, ‘How does settler-colonialism problematise the concepts of infrastructure and sabotage? Insights from debates about the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa’, Human Geography, 2026
    • Africa’s last settler colony? Robert Flahive, ‘Western Sahara as a design project: tracking the architecture of counterrevolution for “Greater Morocco”‘, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • Evacuative settler colonialism: Peter Adey, ‘Settler-colonial-evacuative infrastructures of mobility’, Geographical Reserach, 64, 2, 2026, e70057
    • Settler colonialism in Bangladesh: Anwar Hossain, ‘The Position of Bengali Settlers in Development Dynamics: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh’, Asia Social Issues, 19, 3, 2026, #285525
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