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« Prisoners of the sim colony: Allie Thek, ‘Pay for Your Lack of Vision: The Naturalization of Imperialist Epistemology in Science Fiction Colony Sims’, Utopian Studies, 37, 1, 2026, pp. 106-125
If it’s terra nullius … : Rakesh Kumar, ‘Digital terra nullius? Artificial intelligence experimentation and sovereignty in Australia’, Dialogues on Digital Society, 2026 »

Fiery resistance: Perry Mendoza, ‘Fires that Light the Way: On Witnessing Occupied Palestine—and Beyond’, Journal of American Folklore, 139, 552, 2026, pp. 197–203

17May26

Abstract: This paper investigates the situations unveiled symbolically by the wildfires in Jerusalem (Al-Quds). It considers the ongoing situation in Palestine as a complex of events that reveals various forms of settler colonialism, from their entanglements with archaeology, to their impositions on the flora and fauna of Gaza, taking the wildfires as a point of departure for a metaphorical contemplation on two possibilities: the possibility of hope and the possibility of political change that gives the fields both of Palestine and folkloristics a more optimistic future.

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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 roots of settler colonialism: Aysha Sana, ‘Olive Trees, Resistance, and Colonial Contestations in Palestine: A Political and Ecological Analysis’, in Priyanka Chandra (ed.), Undisciplining IR: Beyond Mainstream International Relations, Routledge, 2026
    • Translation across space and meaning: Katsuya Hirano, Daniel Abbe, ‘Settler-Colonial Translation: “Civilization” and the Ainu Voices’, in Talal Asad, Jun’ichi Isomae, Naoki Sakai, Katsuya Hirano, Gouranga Charan Pradhan (eds), Beyond the Untranslatable: Theorizing Postcolonial Translation, Routledge, 2026
    • Environmental settler colonialism: Kristi Leora Gansworth, Otto Muller, ‘Not your blood, not your soil: Land and belonging in colonial matrices’, in Lise Benoist, George Edwards, Bernhard Forchtner, Balša Lubarda, Sonja Pietiläinen, Kjell Vowles (eds), Global Far-Right Ecologies, Routledge, 2026
    • Unsettled? Kendra E. Fortin, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Corey W. Johnson, Jennifer Holman, Helle C. Haven Petersen, Victor Mawutor Agbo, Peggy Vacalopoulos, ‘Divinity and unsettling tourism memories’, Leisure, 2026
    • Still Indigenous: Freddy Cabral, We are Still Lipan: Identity Erasure, Settler Colonialism, Historical Memory and the Persistence of the Non-Reservation Lipan Apache, PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2026
    • The language of settler colonialism: Katya Kredl, ‘Québec’s Bill 96: A Case Study of Indigenous Cultural and Political Dispossession’, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 13, 1, 2026, pp. 23-38
    • Violence is a settler feeling: Michael Lechuga, The Far-Right Rhetoric of Dog Whistles: Settler Feelings and Unspeakable Acts, Palgrave, 2026
    • Settler colonial embeddedness: Joseph Rafael Kaplan Weinger, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Colonial Settlement, Splintered Sovereignty, and the Making of an Injurious Alliance, PhD dissertation, UCLA, 2026
    • Settlers in the north: Eugene Kontorovich, Erielle Azerrad, ‘Settlers in Syria: Turkey’s Population Transfers and the Geneva Conventions’, Emory International Law Review, 40, 2026, pp. 535-564
    • Settlers, locals, strangers: Bethany Lacina, Strangers and Settlers: Migration Politics in a Local’s World, Oxford Academic, 2026
    • Catty settlers: Zoei Sutton, Kate Hall, ‘”Feral Catastrophe”: Analysing the Narrative Construction of Australian Cats’, in Georgina Endfield, Poul Holm (eds), Oxford Intersections: Environmental Change and Human Experience, Oxford, 2026
    • Partnership or containment? Hemopereki Simon, ‘Possessing the Awa: Te Awa Tupua, legal personhood and the continuities of settler/invader colonialism’, Territory, Politics, Governance, 2026
    • The face(book) of settler colonialism: Lora Chapman, ‘Settler-Australian anxieties and the savagery of Facebook: notes from Alice Springs’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2026
    • Despite settler colonialism or because of it? Sydney Beckmann, ‘”Yours for a United Race”: the Society of American Indians and the Meaning of Unity’, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2026
    • Veterinary settler colonialism: Irus Braverman, ‘Veterinizing the Settler State: Biopolitics, Care, and Killing in Palestine-Israel’, Medical Anthropology, 2026
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