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Afraid? Aziz Rana, ‘Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?’ Dissent, 72, 3, 2025, pp. 79-93

22Sep25

Excerpt: A defining hallmark of the second trump administration has been the extremity of the violence and threats it has directed at immigrants, especially those that are brown and Black. Masked agents in unmarked cars grab work-ers, parents, and students off the streets. Noncitizens languish in detention for purely political speech, while others are forcibly removed to maximum security prisons overseas or to “third countries” in secretive arrangements. Government videos revel in cruelty toward the growing numbers effectively disappeared.

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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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    • On the geopolitics of settler colonialism: Sveinn M. Jóhannesson, ‘Teutonic Horizons: Geopolitical Thought and Anglo-Saxon Empire in Late-Nineteenth Century Iceland’, Global Studies Quarterly, 6, 2, 2026, #ksag034,
    • Entwining settler colonialism: Jeremy Laity, ‘Entwined Existences: Rethinking Coast Salish/Settler Relationships in Rural Nineteenth-Century British Columbia’, BC Studies, 228, 2026
    • Space settler colonialism: Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe, ‘Space Expansionism: A Pre-Disaster Legacy in the Making, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2026
    • 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
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