what’s new

• Thoreau was a settler (I know, right?) John J. Kucich, Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024
• Slaveholding Indigenous peoples: Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, ‘Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: The FWP Slave Narratives and the History of Chickasaw Slaveholding’, The Oral History Review, 2026
• Healing on-Country: Jacob Prehn, Douglas Ezzy, ‘Our Way on Country: Cultural Determinants of Health, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Men’s Wellbeing’, AlterNative, 2026
• Settlers against dinosaurs (of course): Scott Magelssen, ‘Dinosaur Encounters: Settler Colonialism and Planetary Time in South Dakota’s Black Hills’, in Bryan W. Schmidt, Weston Twardowski (eds), Staging Visitation Book Subtitle: Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places, University of Michigan Press, 2026, pp. 216-234
• Settler genocide is contagious! Ge Tang, ‘Contagious Racial Antipathy: Negotiating Indigenous Genocide Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873)’, in Nina Engelhardt, Anja Hartl (eds), Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Book, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 201-219
• Settler experimentation, in isolation: Erik Olssen, The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860, Auckland University Press, 2025
• Settlers heading out: Richard Redgrave, ‘The Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home’, 1858 (Tate Britain)
• Settler colonialism impacts planetary health: Kathryn Stone, Jeremy Perkins, Sarah Plank, Nicole Bates-Eamer, Julia Albert, Heather Castleden, ‘Radical, transformative, or decolonial? A systematic review of The Lancet Planetary Health’s progress on embracing Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems’, The Lancet: Planetary Health, 2026, #101476
• Settlers do not make the land wealthy: Rui Wang, Yang Zhou, ‘Japanese colonial settlement and long-run rural income in Northeast China: evidence from the “Kaitakudan”’, Applied Economic Letters, 2026
• Assimilation is confronting: Katherine Solomonson, ‘Confronting Assimilation: The Interplay Between Očéti Ŝakówiŋ and Settler Spatialities in Dakota Territory, 1883–1888’, in Charles L. Davis, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (eds),Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture, University of Texas Press, 2026, pp. 255-272
• Carceral settlerscapes: Antonina Griecci Woodsum, ‘Settler carcerality in Southern California’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
• Discontinued in 1976! Harrison W. Mark, ‘Homestead Act: Settling the American West’, World History Encyclopedia, 24/07/26
• Extractive settler colonialism (they still need the land): Merle Davis Matthews, Producing Mineral Futures: Mineral Exploration, SettlerCapitalism, and the Search for Potential in Ontario, PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2026
• Settler populism is a response to settler crisis: Andrew Varsanyi, Authorized Agent: Alonzo Wardall and the Settler-Colonial Backlash on the Middle Border, 1861–1918, PhD dissertation, The University of Nebraska, 2026
• There are settlers there: Youssef Mnaili, Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank: Indirect Governance, Settlers and Violence, Bloomsbury, 2026