« Indigenous Wards, settler wardens: Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, University of Nebraska Press, 2024
Settler subjects: Mérédith Laferté-Coutu, ‘A Generative Phenomenology of Settler Homeworlds in Canada and the United States’, in Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Délia Popa (eds), Doing a Phenomenology of Political Life: Social Critique, Sense-Institution, and Political Emancipation, Springer, 2026, pp. 269-288 »

Yeah nah (still a settler colony): James D. Sidaway, ‘Locating Israel as “settler colony”‘, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2025

23Dec25

Abstract: This commentary engages with Mikko Joronen’s ‘Polluting Appropriations: Malevolent Weathering of Settler Colonisation in Palestine’ through two tracks. Firstly, I delve into the lineage of the term ‘settler colony’ as a designation of Israel, considering some of its political framings and impacts. Secondly, I consider wider literature on environmental transformations and impacts of settler colonialism. Both tracks yield questions on Israel’s commonalities with other military-colonizing powers.


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