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Settler colonialism and the elimination of the nonnative: Richard LeBlanc, ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the Acadian: 1708–1748’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: In 1755–63, the British empire expelled Acadians from Nova Scotia and other regions where they lived. Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc argues that understanding this tragic period of 1755–63 requires the consideration of the period of 1749–55 as part of the process toward the Acadian expulsion. This paper goes further back in time and argues that understanding the 1749–55 period requires the consideration of the period of 1708–48 as ideological precondition. It demonstrates that the intention of a series of officials of the British empire to remove, eliminate, and replace the Acadians in 1708–48 took the form of what Patrick Wolfe calls settler colonialism. It also shows that this project of British settler colonialism against Acadians was articulated ideologically in liberal terms and was motivated by what Dirk Moses calls the liberal permanent security of capitalist expansion. This reveals that settler colonial ideology, or discourse, and its enforcement cannot be restricted to the elimination of Indigenous groups and also needs to be understood as an anti-Acadian project of the British empire.


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The model villages of settler colonialism: Wafaa Rouissat, Dalila Senhadji, ‘The “Indigenous Village” of Sidi Bel Abbès: A Unique Form of Urban Segregation in the nineteenth-Century Colonial Algeria’, Journal of Planning History, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: This article explores the history of colonial urban planning and the control policies over “indigenous” populations implemented by the French authorities in the nineteenth-century Algeria. Focusing on the case of the city of Sidi Bel Abbès and its indigenous village, this work offers a detailed analysis of colonial territorial management practices, examining their stakes, actors, and limitations. Drawing for the first time on unpublished archival documents, this study highlights the originality of this urban planning, marked by a triple spatial segregation. The analysis also extends to the impact of this segregation on the indigenous population.


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The masonry of settler colonialism: Cian Cooney, ‘Lodge Objections: Anti-freemasonry and the Defenders of French Algeria’, French Studies Bulletin, 46, 4, 2025

05Oct25

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Reflected resurgences: Christopher “Kikila” Perrin, Learning to listen: Cultivating settler support for resurgence, PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: As climate change’s impacts are felt more acutely by Indigenous communities across the planet, settler environmentalists are beginning to acknowledge colonial land theft as a major contributor to the climate crisis. In response, some settlers have begun supporting Indigenous demands for Land Back. Because we reproduce the dominant worldview that perpetuates and reflects Canada’s structural racism, settler support for Indigenous movements at times cause further colonial harms to Indigenous people who invite our participation while undermining their movements. This dissertation proposes a framework for settlers supporting Coast Salish land stewardship that reduces potential harms caused by our participation. My research follows two communities of settler environmentalists participating in Coast Salish-led land stewardship projects to better understand how our (re)production of the dominant worldview continues to cause harm to the Indigenous people we displace. Participating in Coast Salish-led invasive species removal and other land stewardship practices, our experiences indicate that sites of Indigenous resistance to the colony create transformative ethical spaces through ceremony and protocol where settlers can start learning to live in Indigenous sovereignty. Understanding Coast Salish-led ecosystem restoration as a culturally relevant place of learning, settler participants begin to (re)orient ourselves, giving us tools necessary for interrupting the dominant worldview as it is reproduced in us while we become aware that we carry responsibilities for living on stolen land. By taking up Indigenous research methods and methodologies under Indigenous leadership as praxis, this research describes an emergent set of decolonial practices that specifically support Coast Salish resurgence through meaningful settler engagement.


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Laughable matter: Bernard C. Perley, ‘Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays, ‘Journal of American Folklore, 138, 550, 2025, pp. 468-479

05Oct25

Abstract: Folklore studies has a distinguished history that also includes unintended harms due to past practices. Folklorists have learned lessons from past practices and are actively engaged in meaningful and purposive methodologies of understanding and shared knowledge. A Native American perspective offers insights into past harms but does so in the service of respectful and responsive folklore studies. This essay introduces “Indian humor” via comic strips as a means for highlighting cross-cultural perplexities to promote mutual respect and understanding between settler colonial society and Native American communities.


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Settlers monopolise international relations: Tomohiro Harada, ‘Seeing like a people: Indigenous diplomacies and struggles for self-determination under the United Nations system’, European Journal of International Relations, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: Since the beginning of the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), Indigenous Peoples have been frequently denied participation in the formal meetings of the UN as representatives of their Peoples, constituted by their respective governments. Instead, they have been participating formally under the UN System under the auspices of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or through Member States as substate actors. Accordingly, International Relations (IR) literature has broadly studied Indigenous Peoples under the UN System under the guises of transnational actors, lobby groups, civil society, experts, and most notably, NGOs, or simply assumed to be represented under the mantle of States in which they live. Accordingly, it pays little attention to how Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination is constituted in their practices directly under the UN System. This paper will illustrate Indigenous Peoples’ diplomacies and argue that their diplomacies constitute distinct agencies and practices of self-determination in the UN System which are aimed to challenge the dominance of sovereign States under the UN System and international order, but not without practical constraints. Nevertheless, I argue that Indigenous Peoples should be studied as distinct diplomatic actors under the UN System and in IR.


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India’s settler colonialism: Jeremy A. Rinker, ‘The settler colonial imagination: Hindutva, neoliberal development, and coming to grips with the collective trauma of Kashmir’s protracted colonization’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2025

05Oct25

Abstract: Despite growing literatures on the intersection between narrative testimony, persistent marginalization, and public storytelling as democratic, legal, and therapeutic resource for survivors of mass political violence (see Kirmayer, Gone, and Moses, ‘Rethinking Historical Trauma’, among others), there is little empirical understanding of the importance of creating socio-legal mechanisms for testimony and storytelling in overcoming the historical legacies of colonialism, settler exceptionalism, and collective trauma in protracted social conflicts. Indian administered Kashmir is a case in point. Stuck in the post-colonial imagination of a country now ruled by nationalistic Hindutva forces, the 2021 Russell Tribunal on Kashmir took as one of its four key goals to interrogate the Kashmir conflict through the lens of settler colonialism. In the context of neoliberal and hegemonic Hindutva forces, is such a reframing of this protracted social conflict accurate, or even possible? When powerful forces embrace a belligerent and oppositional narrative of the Kashmir conflict, like that found in the 2022 Bollywood film Kashmir Files, one must question how a settler colonial frame informs the protracted nature of the conflict. This article argues that what Harold Saunders called, a public peace process is not only welcome but required for peace with justice in Kashmir.


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Willa Cather as a settler bard: Emily J. Rau, Resettling Willa Cather’s West, Special Issue, Western American Literature, 60, 2, 2025

05Oct25

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Dancing with settlers: Gabriel Baker, ‘Bittersweet Belonging: A Humble Story About Blooms and Bones Available to Purchase’, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 14, 3, 2025, pp. 30-54

05Oct25

Abstract: In what follows, I share a story. Emerging from engagement with critical autoethnography and danced movement as methodology during my doctoral research, my story explores the complex terrain of my sense of belonging as a Pākehā, or White woman of settler-colonial descent, in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Inspired by scholars who have drawn attention to the power and possibilities of humble approaches to being an academic and doing academic research, I tell my story not to support a grand theory or critique but to answer calls for reflexivity and response-ability among those of White settler-colonial background.


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Academia on the settler’s side: Walaa Alqaisiya, Nicola Perugini (eds), Palestine and the Western Academe: Fighting the Exception, Defending Epistemic Justice, Routledge, 2026

05Oct25

Description: The ongoing devastation in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, alongside the systematic destruction of Palestinian universities, has coincided with intensified censorship and repression within Western academic institutions. These developments reveal the distinctive position that Zionism and its defense has held for decades within Western imperial structures, creating patterns of epistemic injustice. Palestine and the Western Academe emerges from a collective sense of political and intellectual urgency in response to mounting repression against scholars and students working on and studying Palestine. While attacks on academic freedom and freedom of speech in Western academia have intensified, they have been met with new forms of resistance and disobedience, bolstered by coalitional anti- racist and anti- capitalist solidarities extending from Palestine globally. This edited volume brings together significant contributions from scholars and students offering fresh approaches to the epistemic and political struggles surrounding Palestine. It demonstrates the timely and enduring relevance of the Palestinian question to international academic spaces and is essential reading for academics, researchers, and students interested in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Critical Theory, Decolonial Studies, and Academic Freedom discourse. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published in Middle East Critique. This edition comes with several new chapters and an updated introduction, offering fresh perspectives and expanded analysis on these urgent and evolving issues.


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