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« The struggle against settler colonial climate change: Sadie Beaton, Emily Eaton, Michelle Paul, ‘Peace and Friendship on the Sipekne’katik: Treaty as a Transformational Practice in the Resistance against Alton Gas’, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2026
Exposure to settler colonialism: Adhika Ezra, Amber J. Fletcher, Laurie Clune, ‘Beyond exposure: neoliberal homeless governance and climate vulnerability in a settler colonial context’, Environmental Sociology, 2026 »

Water is not for settlers to monopolise: K. Harriden, ‘Aqua Nullius’, in Nathanaël Wallenhorst, Christoph Wulf (eds), Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Pluriversal Perspectives, Springer, 2026

21Feb26

Excerpt: Aqua nullius, or how the settler-state “governments’ lack of inclusion of Indigenous water rights and interests resembles Australia’s western framing of Indigenous land rights—shaped by the doctrine of terra nullius—and reconstructs Indigenous water rights as aqua nullius or ‘water belonging to no one’”.

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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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    • Unfitting and therefore settlers: Susan Kollin, ‘Settler Ecologies and Western Adaptation: Unfitting Characters in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’, in Pamela Demory (ed.), Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, pp. 203-218
    • Adapting, but still settlers: Katie Kane, ‘”A Huge Mass in a Single Hand”: Yellowstone and the Selling of Montana’, in Pamela Demory (ed.), Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, pp. 153-170
    • Indigenous diasporas are implicated: Hemopereki Simon, ‘”Cut your Hōhā nonsense out!” the “lady crown debacle(s)” as settler/invaderism from Māori in “so-called” Australia’, Journal for Cultural Research, 2026
    • The handmaiden of settler history: Shawn Van Ausdal, ‘Cattle ranching: Handmaiden of settler colonialism’, in Mark Moritz, Igshaan Samuels, Nikolaus Schareika, Eva Schlecht (eds), Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism, Routledge, 2026
    • Indigenous title as a trap: Maritza Paredes, Danitza Gil, Anke Kaulard, ‘The Indigenous land titling trap: adaptive practices and the limits of climate governance’, World Development, 204, 2026, #107429
    • Clearly, on Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu: Kim Alley, Dan Tout, ‘Backlash: Dark Emu, Settler Nationalism, and Indigenous Sovereignty’, in Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, Julia Hurst (eds), Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won’t Settlers Listen? Springer, 2026, pp 129-153
    • Paralysed settler colonialism: Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Fear and Loathing in Settler Australia’, in Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, Julia Hurst (eds), Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won’t Settlers Listen? Springer, 2026, pp. 155-167
    • Tone deaf settler colonialism: Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin, Julia Hurst (eds), Barriers to Truth and Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia: Why Won’t Settlers Listen? Springer, 2026
    • The settlers’ frozen prairies: Nicole Aminian, Grace O’Hanlon, ‘The History of the Living Prairie Museum: Conservation, Preservation, and Tall Grass Prairie’, Prairie History, 19, 2026, pp. 15-28
    • Ultimately, decolonial theory does not consider settler colonialism: Sindre Bangstad, ‘The Aporias of Decolonial Anti-imperialism’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
    • Settler vandalism: Feras Hammami, ‘Cultural Heritage Barrenness: The Case of Dispossession, Social Death, and Liberation in Palestine’, in I. Saloul, B. Baillie (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Springer, 2026
    • The wind of unchange: Elle Eriksson, May-Britt Öhman, ‘Wind Power, the EU (Un)Green Deal, SDG7, and Environmentally Destructive Settler Colonialism in Indigenous Sámi Territories: Hällberget’, in Reetta Toivanen, Vladislava Vladimirova, Carl-Gösta Ojala (eds), Decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals: Community Perspectives, Social Justice, and the Challenges of Pluralism, Springer, 2026, pp. 135-153
    • Dreaming of settlement: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Alejandra Pedraza, ‘Reimagining the American dream: redefining, decolonizing, and reclaiming a national ethos’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2026
    • Nursing the wounds of settler colonial violence: Amélie Blanchet Garneau, Joannie Gill, Christine Cassivi, Shenda Collin, ‘Allyship with Indigenous Peoples as a Practice of Resistance in Nursing: Uniting Our Voices’, Aporia, 18, 1, 2026
    • Grief against settler colonialism: Melike İşleyen, ‘Unsettling settler colonial management of life and death through decolonial gestures’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
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