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A new take on settler colonialism: Charles Menzies, ‘Settler colonialism’, Dialectical Anthropology, 2026

11May26

Excerpt: Settler, it might seem, is easy to define. It is someone who takes up residence in someone else’s home. When settler is tied to an economic intention to exploit, occupy, or otherwise encroach upon other people’s land we find ourselves in the terrain of settler colonialism.

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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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    • Biopolitical settler colonialism: Dawit Tesfay Haile, ‘Settler colonial biopolitics at the border: a transnational entanglement of law, medical sciences, and migration control at Ellis Island’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • At this point we should not ‘care’: Girish Daswani, ‘How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide’, American Anthropologist, 2026
    • What settler colonialism therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers: Janna Lynell Martin Rogers, Human Categorization: A History of Race Science and Trafficking Indigenous Remains’, MA dissertation,   Oklahoma State University, 2027
    • Settler colonialism as peer review: Nimrod Lin, ‘Zionist comparisons to settler colonies before 1948’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • The monogamous settler: T. J. Tallie, Conjugal States: The Queerness of Nonmonogamy in Settler Worlds, University of Minnesota Press, 2027
    • Indigenous peoples define health as self-determination (I know, right?): Laura Gemmell-Sinnott, Miriam Laugesen, Robin Quigg, ‘How do Indigenous peoples define health? A systematic review of definitions across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States’, Qualitative Research in Health, 2026, #100874
    • More food for settler thought: Molly Stollmeyer, Kristen Lowitt, Catherine Littlefield, Charles Z. Levkoe, Peter Andrée, Patricia Ballamingie, ‘Motivations driving settler food movement organizations in Canada to engage with Indigenous peoples’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • Settlers representing settlers: Cole Virk, The settler culture of colonial spectacle: A study of settler colonial erasure and assimilation of Indigenous representations, PhD dissertation, University of Sheffield, 2026
    • Redestricting other peoples: Robert Vargas, Paola Del Toro, Christina Cano, Xing Zhang, ‘Settler colonialism and community protection from redistricting’, Geoforum, 2026, #104830
    • Doubts about settlerhood: Timothy S. Forest, ‘Muddied Waters: Crofter Colonisation and the Contingency of “British” and “Scottish” Whiteness in 1880s New Zealand’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2026
    • Mobile settlers: Prue Laidlaw, D. H. R. Spennemann, C. Allan, ‘The Role of Itinerancy in Australian History: Rethinking the Settler Narrative’, Australian Historical Studies, 2026
    • Humanitarian settler colonialism: Pietro Stefanini, ‘Populating Colonized Palestine: The Role of Humanitarianism in the Demographic Project of Zionist Settler-Colonial Replacement, 1938-52’, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2026
    • Anti-racism mandates that promote racism are a reliable disappointment: Soma Chatterjee, Shirin Shahrokni, ‘Keeping Palestine out of anti-racism: A critique of institutional equity, diversity and inclusion mandate’, Critical Sociology, 2026
    • The land-for-settlers-education-for-settlers deal: Tamson Pietsch, ‘Ninety Million Acres: Public Education and Land Endowments in Australia and the Anglo-settler World’, History of Education Quarterly, 2026
    • Wrapping up: Karl H. Jacoby, Magdalena Naum (eds), New Directions in Settler Colonial Studies: Studying Settler Colonialism in a Time of Crisis, Routledge, 2026
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