what’s new

• It’s an improvement! (no it isn’t): Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Book Review: Settler Colonial Sovereignty: Visions of Improvement and Indigenous Erasure by Liam Midzain-Gobin’, International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2026
• The settlers’ ‘dream’: Neerej Dev, ‘From Rivermind to Care Homes: Settler Dreams and Britain’s Care Crisis; the cannibalistic business model depicted in Common People holds up a mirror to Britain’s predatory social-care infrastructure’, Economic & Political Weekly, lXI, 11, 2026, pp. 71-72
• Auctioning settler colonialism (mobilising preaccumulation): Reinoud Vermoesen, ‘A world without stuff? Public auctions in a colonial setting: Kingston (New York) in the seventeenth century’, in Bruno Blondé, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Jon Stobart (eds), Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World: Comparative Perspectives from Across the Globe, 1700-1850, Routledge, 2026
• It wasn’t me! (the stories the settlers tell): Sami Lakomäki, ‘Imagining a Birkarl conquest: mediated violence and the cultural construction of colonialism in Sápmi’, Acta Borealia, 2026
• Slavery in the settler colony: Zoë Laidlaw, Jane Lydon (eds), Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand, Manchester University Press, 2026
• Peace catechism and settler colonialism: Ilan Pappe, ‘The Failure of the “Peace Orthodoxy”: A Critical Review of the Israel–Palestine Peace Process’, The Maghreb Review, 51, 2, 2026 pp. 156-163
• Securitisation and settler colonialism: James M. Hundley, ‘Border Securitization as Settler Colonialism’, American Indian Culture and Research Journal , 49, 1, 2026, pp. 81-102
• Zoometric and settler colonialism: Irus Braverman, ‘Zoometrics and the Dogs of Gaza: Species, Race, and Settler-Colonial Violence’, Theory & Event, 29, 2, pp. 347-375
• Carceral and settler colonialism: Michelle Brown, ‘Abolition is ceremony: Christianity, carcerality, and the Cherokee Mission School’, Incarceration: An international journal of imprisonment, detention and coercive confinement, 2026
• Acoustic and settler colonialism: Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Acoustic ColonialismL Acts of Mapuche Interference, Duke University Press, 2025
• A settler colony nearby: Rachel O’Sullivan, Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective, Bloomsbury, 2023
• Settler colonialism is an ecology: Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya, University of Toronto Press, 2024
• Settler colonialism in Kashmir: Goldie Osuri, Settler/colonialism in Kashmir: Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity, Manchester University Press, 2026
• Criminal nonplaces: Šárka Bubíková, ‘Nonplaces and Crime in David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts’, in Petr Chalupský, Tereza Topolovská (eds), Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures, Routledge, 2026
• Settlers and their good press: Helena Goodwyn, Reviewing The New Journalism, the New Imperialism and the Fiction of Empire, 1870–1900 by Andrew Griffiths, Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863–1902 by Sam Hutchinson, and Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell, Modern Language Review, 121, 2026, pp. 260-267