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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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    • The good press of settlers: Shelisa Klassen, Imprinting Empire: Land and Settler Colonialism in Manitoba Newspapers, University of Manitoba Press, 2026
    • A new take on settler colonialism: Charles Menzies, ‘Settler colonialism’, Dialectical Anthropology, 2026
    • The settler army does not need Indigenous peoples: Daniel Stridh, Peter Johansson, ‘Conscription and Colonialism: Tracing the Origins of the Sámi Exemption in the 1885 Swedish Conscription Act’, Scandinavian Journal of History, 2026
    • The heritage of reconciliation? Andrea M. Cuéllar, Ross Kilgour, Perry Stein, ‘Reconciliation and heritage policy making in a Canadian settler-colonial city’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2026
    • The settler police: C. Cheung, A. T. Murry, T. Latta et al, ‘Discourse on Indigenous-police interactions’, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026
    • The international law of settler colonialism: Mohsen al Attar, Claire Smith, ‘Settler Colonialism, Race, and International Law’, in Mohsen al Attar, Claire Smith (eds), Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries, Oxford University Press, 2026
    • Settler colonial ecocide: Marine Berthiot, ‘Representing Ecocides in Settler Colonial Arts and Literatures in a (Post-)Terra Nullius Era: An Introduction’, Textures, 30, 2026
    • Accounting, recounting settler colonialism: Rania Kamla, ‘The scream and accounting scholarship: the genocide in Palestine’, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 103, 2026, #102858
    • Pleading settlers: Darren Reid, ‘Letters to the Editor as Performative Imperial Citizenship: Settler Letters to British Newspapers in the late Nineteenth Century’, Britain and the World, 19, 1, 2026
    • Teaching as a right relation: Aimee de Ney, Remembering Right Relations: A Land-Centered Framework for Settler Teacher Transformation, PhD dissertation, Antioch University, 2026
    • The waters of settler colonialism: Alana Sayers, Revitalizing Hupač̓asatḥ navigational knowledge: Mapping the waters of settler-colonialism using a critical, coastal, community-based consciousness, PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2026
    • Settler colonialism as a warning: Mason McCarthy, ‘Deforestation as a Consequence of Viking Settlement: A Case Study of Iceland’, JUST, 10, 2026
    • The ‘choice’ of settlers: Gavin Meyer Furrey, ‘Native Voice, Settler Choice: Oceti Sakowin Charter Schools and the Contradictions of South Dakota School Choice Policies’, Ethnic Studies Review, 49, 1, 2026, pp. 90-109
    • The selective memory of settlers: Angel M. Hinzo, ‘Not Your “Queen”, Not Your “Sq**w”: Reclaiming Ho-Chunk Histories of Hąpoguwįga and Challenging Settler Memory’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13, 1, 2026, pp. 100-126
    • It’s the political economy of settler colonialism, s: Phil Henderson, Shiri Pasternak, ‘The Political Economies of Ongoing Settler Colonialism’, Native American and Indigenous Studies, 13, 1, 2026, pp. 266-272
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