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The state of the settler state: Heather Whiteside, Stephen McBride (eds), The Canadian State, Fernwood, 2025

13Oct25

Description: Inspired by trailblazing work in the field, this wide-ranging collection makes an essential and timely intervention through new theoretical contributions that build on decades of critical analysis of the Canadian state as an agent active in capitalist development in a global era. The Canadian State explores the state’s distinctive role in the development of a political economy shaped by capitalism and settler colonialism. Paying critical attention to how the state exercises accumulation, legitimation, and coercion in unique ways, the book provides an essential guide to understanding the multidimensional character of Canada’s contemporary state form. Leading contributors in their field provide cutting edge chapters on settler colonialism, land ownership, extractivism, energy, services, care work, democracy, finance, commercialization, employment, and trade and investment.


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Settler genocide beyond genocidal settler colonialism: Salim Vally, Haidar Eid, ‘Introduction to the Special Issue Palestine: Perspectives on Decolonisation’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 24, 2, 2025

12Oct25

Excerpt: After 20 months of calculated and unrelenting horror aimed at the starving and terrorized population of Gaza, the Israeli/US/UK/EU genocide is being ratchetted-up. As we go to press the official casualty count — 60,000 deaths from traumatic injury — is an immense undercount. It excludes the thousands buried under the rubble and deaths resulting from preventable disease, manufactured famine, malnutrition, the lack of water, inadequate sanitation and the availability of chronic medication. Sadistically, the Israeli Occupation Force and the US have orchestrated ‘death traps’ using food as bait to lure hungry people to areas where scores are routinely and casually murdered, as if the hideous massacres over the past 650 days have not been enough — each new atrocity vying with the previous one in a macabre pattern of inhumanity and brutality. Gaza has the greatest number of children per capita whose limbs have been amputated in the world, often without anesthesia and close to 40 000 children have lost one or both parents.


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Migrant Settler desire: Chase Kim, ‘Transpacific Rhizomatic Migration in Kyoung H. Park’s Mina: Settler Desire and Identity Formation in Korean-Latin American Literature in the U.S.’, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies 13, 2024/25, pp. 12-23

12Oct25

Excerpt: In this paper, I have examined Korean-Latin American remigration as it pertains to settler colonial desire and identity formation. Though Asian American Studies rarely considers Asian-Latin American perspectives, and even less Korean-Latin American perspectives, doing so provides insight into the effects of overlapping imperialism in the Latin American context—specifically, how Japanese colonialism continues to affect Korean migrants in Latin American multicultural society.


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On the nature of settlers: Spencer Kiefer Wertz, ‘A Dark Side of James: Native North Americans and a Way Out of the Darkness’, The Pluralist, 20, 3, 2025, pp. 77-93

11Oct25

Excerpt: It is surprising to find in the writings of William James (1842–1910) a condescending and stereotypical view of the Native North Americans, which he shared with most of his fellow white Americans at the time. However, James and the Native North Americans did share a holistic view of nature. For example, they abhorred the systematic deforestation of forests. But his view and the white settlers’ view of nature excluded the Native North Americans’ ways of life and living. Most of James’s statements are about the Northern Great Plains Indians, so most of my discussion centers around the Sioux or the D/Lakota accounts of the land and their idea of self. These conflicting perceptions of the white settlers (and James) and those of the Lakota are reflected in the evolving recent cases of the US Supreme Court regarding Indian legal jurisdiction, which I examine later in this essay. Colonialism raises its ugly head in these discussions. I conclude with a promising note of possible synthesis of some of James’s cornerstone ideas and those involving the land and self in Lakota thought, especially those of Robin Wall Kimmerer.


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Ancient settlers: Tesse D. Stek, ‘Settler Colonialism and Colonization in the Ancient World: Necessary Comparisons’, KNIR Dialogues Online, 1, 2025

11Oct25

Excerpt: Can the scholarly debate on ancient colonization benefit from a specifically settler-colonial perspective? And could settler colonial studies, even though developed for the early modern and modern world, also gain insights from the ancient classical world? The essays in this volume explore the value of examining settler colonialism as a structural phenomenon and, together, make a compelling case for adopting a long-term perspective to better understand its dynamics. While I fully share this approach— unsurprisingly, as a co-founder of the broader research project SECOPS, from which this book emerged—I would like to use this response to offer some additional reflections on the unique contributions that an ancient historical and archaeological perspective can bring to this discourse.


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Visiting settlers: Anna Dunn, Barry Judd, ‘Indigenous-settler relations at work in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park’s tourism industry’, Tourism Geographies, 2025

11Oct25

Abstract: The Australian settler government has repeatedly promised indigenous peoples (Anangu) of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park that they will benefit from settler government’s use of their lands as a significant tourism destination, yet the anangu community of Uluru remains one of the poorest communities in Australia. this article utilises historical analysis and qualitative interviews with Anangu, Parks staff, and tourism staff to chart key dynamics in the relationship between the tourism industry and anangu over 39 years of Joint Management in the Park. We show how the prioritisation of settler logics of tourism and work over Anangu benefit is not just an arbitrary cultural decision meted out in day-to-day interpersonal relations but is built into the geographies and temporalities of work in the Park. highlighting how anangu benefit is deferred through settler logics of work draws attention to the possibility for alternatives that are founded on indigenous lifeworlds. this article’s analytic focus on quotidian, relational dynamics in intercultural contexts brings insights from indigenous and settler colonial studies into tourism research and demonstrates a new way of identifying opportunities for transformation in indigenous tourism industries in settler colonies. From a practical perspective, these insights underscore the importance of developing shared understandings of what meaningful and good “work” is in intercultural industries and highlights possible interventions into entrenched dynamics between indigenous and settler peoples in these contexts.


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Beware of sympathetic settlers: Erin Akerman, ‘At the Crossroads of Sympathy and Prophecy: Anna Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, and the Drummond Island Métis’, Canadian Literature, 250, 2025

11Oct25

Abstract: While discussing their community’s relocation, Drummond Island Métis interviewees Lewis Solomon and Jean Baptiste Sylvestre describe how they witnessed British author Anna Jameson steal skulls from an Indigenous grave during her travels in 1837 (The Migration of Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene in 1828 1901). Their testimony provokes a reckoning for Jameson and her travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838) due to her self-depiction as exceptionally sympathetic toward Indigenous peoples. Their evidence also unsettles earlier scholarship that valorizes Jameson’s sympathy and gestures toward the settler colonial stakes bound up in such readings. This paper re-evaluates Jameson’s travel narrative by demonstrating how her settler sympathy is intertwined with prophecies of “elimination” (Wolfe 2006, 388). It then shows how the narratives of Solomon, Sylvestre, and other members of the Drummond Island Métis community (ancestors of the present-day Georgian Bay Métis community) resist the constraints of such prophecy.


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Settler colonialism can be green (and nasty): Ghada Sasa, Resisting Green Colonialism: Palestinian and Islamic Strides Towards Justice and Sustainability, PhD dissertation, McMaster University, 2025

11Oct25

Abstract: Since the 1980s, Western academia began to thoroughly contend with anticolonialism and environmentalism, progressively connecting the two movements. At their crossroads, I make four major contributions as a Palestinian activist-scholar. Firstly, I theorize settler colonialism as an operation that is inherently genocidal, outlining ways in which it destroys human and nonhuman lives in my homeland. Secondly, I designate the absorption of environmentalism by Israel for expansionist purposes as “green colonialism.” I provide several examples of this manoeuvre, perceiving it to be a Western environmental, Orientalist, and Zionist concoction. They include Israeli construction of forests as border walls, rezoning of Palestinian localities as “protected areas,” recruitment of settlers into hiking and planting as exercises of Indigenization, and rendering of Palestinians as ecological enemies. Thirdly, I animate the stories of several demolished Palestinian localities, which have been smothered by the Zionist entity, sourcing them from oral archives. Fourthly, Indigenous rebellion in human and nonhuman forms is spotlighted. I also channel Palestinian, scientific, anticolonial, and Islamic knowledge to foster “holistic decolonization.” This notion prioritizes human rights, while attending to the abolition of White supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and anthropocentrism. The introduction of this dissertation is split into two parts: the first examines the four major foundations of green colonialism in Palestine, (Zionism, Orientalism, settler colonialism, and Western environmentalism), while the second expounds my contributions to literature on the topic. The first chapter of this thesis sketches out the colonial architecture of the Israeli park system, the second chapter largely consists of a case study, (which investigates the imposition of USA Independence Park over the remnants of 8 Jerusalemite villages by Israel), and the third chapter provides a glimpse into the paradoxical fusion of Zionist environmentalism and militarism. This dissertation closes with a summary and points to global openings for Indigenous healing, restoration, and return.


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Settlers for sport: Robert Kossuth, Adam Mills, ‘Fraternal Societies, Settler Colonialism, and Combat Sports on Canada’s Prairie West’, Sport History Review, 2025

11Oct25

Abstract: In southern Alberta, Canada, during the early twentieth century, fraternal organizations such as the Oddfellows, Moose, Elks, and Eagles employed boxing and wrestling to advance their interests and assist in molding members to demonstrate the discipline and respectability expected of a member. These organizations not only appropriated symbols of the natural world—Elk, Eagle, and Moose—to stake a claim to the land and space that they occupied but also offered male settlers social support and economic benefits in the case of injury or death when such support was largely unavailable. Boys and young men represented ideal candidates for membership to continue and promote the brotherhoods’ shared beliefs and values, and boxing and wrestling were considered valuable activities for achieving these ends. As a result, boxing and wrestling benefitted fraternal societies, allowing them to attract new members while entrenching existing settler colonial relations on Canada’s prairie west.


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Settlers need land; it must be confiscated: Abd elkarim Harma, ‘The Colonial Administration’s Policy and the French Governors General in Land Confiscation and the Promotion of the Settler Movement and Its Impact on Algerians (1852-1870)’, El-Hakika (the Truth): Journal for Social and Human Sciences, 24, 3, 2025, pp. 206-224

11Oct25

Abstract: During the colonial period, Algeria underwent significant economic exploitation, primarily centered around land issues, which became the cornerstone of various colonial settlement and exploitation projects. This exploitation intensified from 1852 to 1870, as colonial authorities sought to acquire the largest possible landholdings to serve their economy and accommodate incoming European settlers. This research paper aims to highlight the key methods and means employed to achieve this, emphasizing their Impact on the Algerian people. To clarify these points, I employed a historical recovery methodology, utilizing descriptive, analytical, and statistical tools. One of the findings indicates that the colonizers were relatively successful in altering the economic structure and dismantling the social fabric in certain regions, primarily through changes in the social composition of specific tribes and communities.


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