what’s new

• 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
• It’s not settler colonialism if it is not racist: Jorden Hendry, Robin Smoker-Peters, ‘Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism as the Foundation for Indigenous Cultural Safety in Health Systems’, Healthcare Management Forum, 2026
• The frontier of the settler ‘frontier’: Raymond Isaac Orr, Raina Heaton, Kun Lu, Ryan Dubnicek, Isabella Magni, Nikolaus Parulian, ‘Pushing Back against the Frontier: Native American Writing on Western Expansion’, American Indian Culture and Research Journal , 49, 2, 2026, pp. 107-126
• Boarding schools were for settlers: Jean Reith Schroedel, Melissa Rogers, Edward Headington, ‘Indian Boarding Schools for the Gain of White Settlers: A Case Study of Rapid City Indian School’, Journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal , 49, 2, 2026, pp. 149-174
• Settler colonialism makes Indigenous peoples sick: Bram Wispelwey, Lana Ray, Dina Hamideh, Steven De La Torre, Nadine Bahour, Artair Rogers, David Mills, Eric Hekler, ‘Constructing the Settler Colonial Determination of Health: Causality by Other Means’, Social Science & Medicine, 2026
• Settler colonialism on display: Logan Douglas, British settler colonialism and the South African National Gallery, PhD dissertation, University of St Andrews, 2026
• Familial settlerism: Erich Steinman, ‘Investigating the Settler Colonial Structuring of the United States: The Family Place Portfolio’, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2026
• Reconcile or else! Joseph Weiss, Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada, The University of North Carolina Press, 2026