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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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    • Foreclosing settler colonialism (also dishonestly): Rosanne Kennedy, ‘Decolonial memory frictions: Tracking the tent in activism, art and memory from Indigenous Australia to Palestine’, Memory Studies, 19, 5, 2026, pp. 1500-1524
    • Forgetful settlers (by design): Paulina R. Johnson, ‘Settler-colonialism’s ability to forget Nêhiyawak memory’, Memory Studies, 19, 5, 2026, pp. 1475-1484
    • The village that does not breathe: Isra Sarsour, Ahmad Khalilia, ‘Fragmented landscapes: The impact of Israeli settlements on Palestinian identity — A case study of Deir Nidham village’, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2026
    • Resurgence: Brandon Montour, ‘Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Traditional Government in Kahnawà:ke through Haudenosaunee Law’, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 63, 1, 2026
    • The portability of frontier religion: Alexandru Lazăr, ‘From New England to Indiana: Religious Mobility and the Expansion of Universalist Christianity Across the American Frontier’, SSRN, 2026
    • Culture wars? Lorenzo Veracini, ‘AIPAC jeremiad: on Adam Kirsch′s settler colonialism’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • A settler neighbourhood: Samuel Jacob, ‘Nearer Neighbors: Settler Sublimation and Human Gardening in the Russian-American Neighborhood of Crèvecoeur’s Letters From an American Farmer’, American Literary History, 38, 4, 2026, pp. 464-489
    • Settler maths: Nicholas Pitt, Matthew Birchall, Nancy Cushing, Jarrod Hore, Simon Ville, Alison Bashford, ‘Rethinking settler-colonial populations with sheep and cattle – a conversation around the Australian colonies’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 27, 2, 2026
    • Homemaking projects: Kandice L. Grossman, ‘Home Is at the Heart of Place: Coalition Possibilities at Standing Rock’, in Michelle I. Gawerc, Rachel L. Einwohner (eds), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: Coalition-Building and Solidarity Across Difference, Emerald, 2026
    • Bilingual settler colonialsm: E. Haque, ‘Dual white settler coloniality and the genealogy of indigenous language policy’, Language Policy, 2026
    • Protection, assimilation, settler colonialism: Andrew Woolford, ‘Protective legislation and paternalism: assimilative indigenous education in the US and Canada, 1928-1953’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2026
    • Suburban settler colonialism: Sean Tyler, ‘The Settler-Suburban Imaginary: Improvement, John Claudius Loudon, and Colonial Dispossession in the Swan River Colony’, Fabrications, 2026
    • Settler colonial panopticons: Emily Lanman, ‘Panopticons in the antipodes: why Bentham’s reforms found success in Western Australia’, Journal of Bentham Studies 24, 1, 2026
    • Travellers as the antisettlement: TraVision, ‘To Be Settled or to Be Unsettled? The Historical Formation of the Settled Population in Ireland’, Zenodo, 22/10/26
    • The Indigenous response: Yann Allard-Tremblay, Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory, Oxford University Press, 2025
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