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Knowledge about settler colonialism: Joshua Myers, ‘Settler Colonial State’, in Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Sean Jacobs (eds), The Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 107-120 »

Solar settler colonialism: Myles Lennon, ‘Solar Pioneers: The Frontier Entrepreneurialism of a Sluggish Energy Transition’, Cultural Anthropology, 41, 3, 2026, pp. 692-717

17Aug26

Excerpt: Drawing from three years of ethnographic research on solar projects in NYC, I will show how this mode of market-based self-making is informed by settler imaginaries of societal progress vis-à-vis spatialized transformations when what is known as “the narrative structure of the frontier myth” organizes “entrepreneurial affects”.

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    • Knowledge about settler colonialism: Joshua Myers, ‘Settler Colonial State’, in Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Sean Jacobs (eds), The Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 107-120
    • Solar settler colonialism: Myles Lennon, ‘Solar Pioneers: The Frontier Entrepreneurialism of a Sluggish Energy Transition’, Cultural Anthropology, 41, 3, 2026, pp. 692-717
    • Dinosaurs in the settler imaginaries: Henrik Jaron Schneider, The Truth in These Rocks: Fossil Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and the Dinosaur in the American Imaginary, PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2026
    • Revolutionary Reconciliation (nothing the current settlers would dread more): Basel Mansour, ‘Reconciliation, Decolonization of Relationships, and Egalitarian Bi-nationalism: A Praxis for the IsraeliPalestinian Impasse?’ Perspectives on Politics, 2026
    • Treaty is not a contract: Morgan Brigg, Deirdre Howard-Wagner, Natasha McCormack, Sarah Maddison, Kaely Woods, ‘Entangled political institutions and forms: From corporatisation to treaty’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2026
    • Thoreau was a settler (I know, right?) John J. Kucich, Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of Place, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024
    • Slaveholding Indigenous peoples: Rozanne Gooding Silverwood, ‘Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: The FWP Slave Narratives and the History of Chickasaw Slaveholding’, The Oral History Review, 2026
    • Healing on-Country: Jacob Prehn, Douglas Ezzy, ‘Our Way on Country: Cultural Determinants of Health, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Men’s Wellbeing’, AlterNative, 2026
    • Settlers against dinosaurs (of course): Scott Magelssen, ‘Dinosaur Encounters: Settler Colonialism and Planetary Time in South Dakota’s Black Hills’, in Bryan W. Schmidt, Weston Twardowski (eds), Staging Visitation Book Subtitle: Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places, University of Michigan Press, 2026, pp. 216-234
    • Settler genocide is contagious! Ge Tang, ‘Contagious Racial Antipathy: Negotiating Indigenous Genocide Anthony Trollope’s Australia and New Zealand (1873)’, in Nina Engelhardt, Anja Hartl (eds), Victorian Antipathies: Negative Feelings in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Book, Palgrave, 2026, pp. 201-219
    • Settler experimentation, in isolation: Erik Olssen, The Origins of an Experimental Society: New Zealand, 1769–1860, Auckland University Press, 2025
    • Settlers heading out: Richard Redgrave, ‘The Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home’, 1858 (Tate Britain)
    • Settler colonialism impacts planetary health: Kathryn Stone, Jeremy Perkins, Sarah Plank, Nicole Bates-Eamer, Julia Albert, Heather Castleden, ‘Radical, transformative, or decolonial? A systematic review of The Lancet Planetary Health’s progress on embracing Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems’, The Lancet: Planetary Health, 2026, #101476
    • Settlers do not make the land wealthy: Rui Wang, Yang Zhou, ‘Japanese colonial settlement and long-run rural income in Northeast China: evidence from the “Kaitakudan”’, Applied Economic Letters, 2026
    • Assimilation is confronting: Katherine Solomonson, ‘Confronting Assimilation: The Interplay Between Očéti Ŝakówiŋ and Settler Spatialities in Dakota Territory, 1883–1888’, in Charles L. Davis, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (eds),Rewriting American Architecture: Contesting the Myths of National Culture, University of Texas Press, 2026, pp. 255-272
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