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« A history of settler colonialism: Arnon Degani, ‘Zionism’s flipside: a reconsideration of settler colonialism in Israel/Palestine’, Journal of Israeli History, 2026
Loaded: Lisa Marie Cacho, ‘“It’s Not Even Loaded”: Settler Colonialism, Suicide-by- Cop, and Indigenous Self-Defense’, in Lisa Marie Cacho, Complex Innocence: Defending Defiant Victims of Police Killings, New York University Press, 2026 »

The settler game: Souvik Mukherjee, ‘How to Read a Colony on a Game Board: Settlers of Catan and Postcolonial Thinking’, Jonathan Gray, Daphne Gershon (eds), Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis, New York University Press, 2026

02Mar26

Abstract: Mukherjee demonstrates how we can apply postcolonial theory— which is more commonly used to consider film and liter a ture’s geopolitical, racial imaginaries, and power structures—to board games and their own icons of power, especially given the medium’s fondness for exploration and conquest.

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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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    • Settler colonialism on display: Emma Catherine Nagler, Settling the Past: Affect, Display, and the Colonial Uncanny, PhD dissertation, Georgetown University, 2026
    • Resisting for sport: Jordan Koch, Robert Henry, Sam McKegney, ‘From locker rooms to change rooms: The Beardy’s Blackhawks and transformative hockey spaces’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2026
    • The settler revolution’s global retreat: Aziz Rana, ‘The American Revolution in Global Retreat’, Dissent, 73, 2, 2026, pp. 7-17
    • Settler bots: Bronwyn Carlson, Tamika Worrell, ‘Robots Behaving Badly: Algorithmic Colonialism and the Consequences of AI’, Journal of Sociology, 2026
    • Beyond the frontier is still settler colonialism: Hisham Bustan, Elia El-Khazen, ‘Between a rock and Israel: how Jordan’s water and energy arrangements advance settler colonialism’, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2026
    • Turquoise settler colonialism: Kristen Barbara Dorsey, From Mines to Native Jewelry Markets: Unravelling the Settler Political Economy of Turquoise, PhD dissertation, UCLA, 2026
    • Settler role playing (pretendsettling): Albert R. Spencer, Justin Bell, Allyson A. Duarte Vela, Tracie Hoops, Cody Spjut, ‘Dog Eat Dog: A Philosophical Exploration of Settler-Colonialism in Role-Playing Game’, The Pluralist, 21, 2, 2026, pp. 6-22
    • Ecological settler colonialism: Irus Braverman, ‘Settler Legal Ecologies: The Colonial Governance of Nature’, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2026
    • More settler colonial reprocide: Hala Shoman, ‘Reprocide: examining the silenced gendered dimension of Israeli genocide in Gaza’, Journal of Gender Studies, 2026
    • Settler colonial carceral reprocide: Sarah A. Whitt, ‘Continuity of Spirit and the Carceral Continuum: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Incarceration Across Settler Time and Space’, American Quarterly, 78, 2, 2026, pp. 263-288
    • More subaltern settlers? Fernando Tavares Pimenta, ‘The Madeiran Diaspora in Southern Angola: The Chicoronho Community of the Huíla Highlands (1884-1974)’, Portuguese Studies Review, 2025
    • Subaltern settlers? Eduard Gargallo, Jordi Sant, ‘A Central Periphery: Catalan Settlers and the Economy of Spanish Guinea (1778-1968)’, Historia Contemporánea, 81, 2026, pp. 405-438
    • The ‘natural’ rights of settlers: Steven Sarson, ‘”When They Left Their Native Land, and Setled in America”: The Fairfax County Resolves, the Origins of Colonies and Empire, and the American Revolution’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 115, 2, 2026, pp. 31-49
    • Lana Del Rey a settler colonialist! Bronwyn Ellerby, ‘White Femininity, Melancholia, and the Settler Colonial Aesthetic in Lana Del Rey’s America’ Motley, 4,1, 2026
    • Settler colonialism as psycho-cosmocide? Yamin Kogoya, ‘Remaking the Settler World from Inside the Papuan World: Colonial Consciousness and the Struggle for Reality in West Papua’, Kurumbi Wone Working Paper Series, 13, 2026
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