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Settler colonialism stinks: Mikko Joronen, ‘Polluting appropriations: Malevolent weathering of settler colonisation in Palestine’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 2025

26Sep25

Abstract: This paper offers a novel take on settler colonisation as a process of appropriating space through pollution. In the context of Palestine and Israel, it illustrates how colonial pollution operates through various material forms that bind air to surfaces– stench, noise, darkness, smoke, fire, ash, and debris– hence constituting what is called ‘malevolent weathering’. In doing so, the paper relates inhabitation and claims of appropriation to contamination of space, arguing, first, that in the context of settler colonisation, polluting functions as a central enabling condition for dispossessive violence. In addition to showing how such contaminations occupy, hold and take space through proliferation of colonial dirt, it argues, second, that polluting creates malevolent weathers that are imposed to purify and clean(se) spaces in order to make them hospitable for settler (re)inhabitation. The paper concludes by framing contamination as a profoundly spatial process that functions through appropriation, weathering, and dispossessive cleansing of space.


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Is it ‘or’, or perhaps ‘and’? Max Ajl, ‘Logics of Elimination and Settler Colonialism: Decolonization or National Liberation?’ In Matteo Capasso, Ali Kadri, The Imperialist Question in Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, 2026

24Sep25

Access the chapter here.


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Crimea as a settler colony? Every accusation is a confession: Greta Lynn Uehling, Decolonizing Ukraine, Rowman & Littlefield, 2025

22Sep25

Description: How the Indigenous People of Crimea Remade Themselves after Russian Occupation.


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Afraid? Aziz Rana, ‘Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”?’ Dissent, 72, 3, 2025, pp. 79-93

22Sep25

Excerpt: A defining hallmark of the second trump administration has been the extremity of the violence and threats it has directed at immigrants, especially those that are brown and Black. Masked agents in unmarked cars grab work-ers, parents, and students off the streets. Noncitizens languish in detention for purely political speech, while others are forcibly removed to maximum security prisons overseas or to “third countries” in secretive arrangements. Government videos revel in cruelty toward the growing numbers effectively disappeared.


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Settler colonial ecofascism: Irus Braverman, ‘The goat speech: Ecofascism in Palestine-Israel’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2025

22Sep25

Abstract: One hundred and seventeen days into Israel’s war on Gaza, the country’s minister of interior, rightwing settler Itamar Ben Gvir, delivered a speech over the podium of Israel’s Knesset. The main theme of this speech was the goat. This was dubbed by the media as the Goat Speech. While the media focused on the goat as a figure of speech, my essay will reflect on the real properties of goats and on the role that they have played in the political making of the natural landscape of Palestine–Israel. The essay will conclude with the realization that the ecofascist dream is not only of a Jewish ethnostate but of a green one, too.


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Settler colonial denizenship: Ibrahim Khatib, ‘Citizen-subjects in an ethnocratic regime: Palestinians in Israel within a settler colonial context’, Citizenship Studies, 2025

22Sep25

Abstract: This article examines the idea of ‘citizen-subjects’ to highlight the contradictions between the modern state’s view of citizenship and the realities within an ethnocratic regime and settler-colonial context. By focusing on Palestinians in Israel, it explores how their citizenship status is systematically diminished to prioritize a Jewish national identity. The citizen-subjects framework shows how their political participation depends on adopting the Israeli- Jewish narrative, focusing on socio-economic issues over national politics and avoiding discussions of collective rights – thus conflicting with both citizenship rights and Indigenous peoples’ rights. This was especially evident during the United Arab List’s role in the 2021–2022 government coalition. Nevertheless, Israeli policies continue to restrict Palestinian political agency and expressions of national identity, thereby reinforcing an ethnocratic system that subjugates them to the Jewish majority. By applying the citizen- subjects framework, this article highlights the ways state policies shape and constrain Palestinian political and national expression, offering insights for broader debates on citizenship, indigenous rights, and the limits of political inclusion in ethnocratic contexts.


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The horror of settler colonialism: Naomi Simone Borwein (ed.), Global Indigenous Horror, University Press of Mississippi, 2025

22Sep25

Description: The volume Global Indigenous Horror is meant to elicit discussion. Contributions herein are an exploration of what Indigenous Horror is and to whom. Beginning with a preface by Cheyenne and Arapaho Horror writer Shane Hawk, the book is structured into four parts, and grounded in an Indigenous journey/ing approach to knowledge acquisition, as advocated by various Indigenous scholars. Part 1 focuses on Indigenous ways of knowing and theorizing. Part 2 offers further examples of Indigenous Horror in the context of cultural and literary practices, while further extending discourses discussed in the book to the literal level. Part 3 continues the exploratory ‘journey’ with examples of Indigenizing Horror and Gothic from various global perspectives. Part 4 contains illustrative interviews with speculative writers of Indigenous descent—including Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho), Dan Rabarts (Ngāti Porou), Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfoot), Gregory C. Loui (Kānaka Maoli), and Gina Cole (Pasifika). Part 4 offers actualizations of hypothetical concepts in the pages of Horror and other speculative fiction. The Epilogue chapter is an act of “Dis/insp/secting Global Indigenous Horror”—as a field of study, a hybrid genre, and a volume. This epilogue is comprised of an academic conversation or dialogue between settler and Indigenous scholars, and as metacommentary is a counterpoint to interviews with Indigenous writers in Part 4. By extending the dialogue about what Global Indigenous Horror is, the epilogue furthers the synoptic praxis of the volume. In the process (or journey/ing) towards an understanding of Global Indigenous Horror, contributions offer a methodological toolbox to investigate cultural practices and literary (and supra-literary) approaches to Indigenous Horror, ways of theorizing, and ways of knowing.


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Settler colonialism is a choral project: Lukas Sawatsky, Converging paths: settler colonialism and the Canadian choral tradition, MA dissertation, University of Manitoba, 2025

20Sep25

Abstract: This thesis resists the grand narrative of Canadian music history by examining Canadian choral works through a settler colonial theoretical framework. I specifically focus on the politics of translation and the relationship between text and music. I exemplify my methodology in this thesis with a brief discussion of R. Murray Schafer’s Miniwanka: Moments of Water (1971), explaining how his use of Indigenous words constitutes a form of extractive composition, or a use of Indigenous culture undertaken without the consent of those to whom it belongs in a settler-colonial context. I then apply this methodology to my primary case studies: Imant Raminsh’s Along the Flower Trail: Earth Chants (1982) and Andrew Balfour’s Nagamo (2022). Both works engage with the politics of translation: Raminsh sets Indigenous song in English translation, and Balfour sets English texts translated into Cree and Ojibway. I contrast Raminsh’s extractive methods with Balfour’s unsettling methods to point the way towards a reinvigorated musical practice that avoids reifying settler colonialism. These close readings provide methods to further understand Canadian music history and its close relationship with settler colonialism.


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Labouring for the settler: Jane Lydon,'”Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2025

20Sep25

Abstract: This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick 1807–1845). When Grey became Under- Secretary for the Colonies in his father’s administration in late 1830, he turned his attention to emigration, colonial land administration, and slavery. As an adherent of the new principles of colonisation – promoted over the previous eighteen months by Edward Gibbon Wakefield – Grey furthered policies to commodify and appropriate colonial land, compelling the landless to labour for them. Notably, between 1831–1833, in dialogue with Colonial Office staff, Grey applied these principles to a radical slavery amelioration Order in Council, and subsequently to a scheme for abolishing slavery in the Caribbean, aiming to compel emancipated slaves to continue to work. Disappointingly for Grey, this plan was dropped at the last minute in favour of a compromise with the West Indies interest. However as Grey later pointed out, its principles remained a blueprint for colonial policy over following decades, including issues of free labour, imperial land policy, colonisation, and labour emigration. This article re-examines the shared principles within Grey’s vision for the amelioration, abolition and aftermath of slavery and their application to numerous post- emancipation contexts beyond the new settler colonies of Australasia, to demonstrate the ways in which achieving the abolition of slavery and expanding territory through conquest were interrelated, not separate, processes. These principles map the emergence of new forms of labour coercion within the development of a global free labour market, and reveal the ways in which the process of privatising Indigenous Country was foundational to racial capitalism.


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Settler colonialism is a form of eugenics: Laura Dowd, Rose Marie Äikäs, ‘Forced Sterilizations, Ethical and Clinical Dilemmas of Social Work Under Settler-Colonial State: Utilizing Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Address Harms’, Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education and Research, 2025

20Sep25

Abstract: BIPOC survivors of forced sterilizations have been excluded from American social work policy and clinical practice, either marginalized or entirely erased. Despite the field’s role in perpetuating racialized birth control, reconciliation is essential within the social work profession. Using Villarosa’s (2022) article “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America” as a framework, Villarosa confronts us with the Relf sisters and the social work profession’s direct involvement in their victimization. We challenge the profession’s understanding of the Code of Ethics and accountability regarding its complicity and explore ways to center survivor voices moving forward. Our paper emphasizes settler colonialism, eugenics, processes of truth-telling and reconciliation, living survivors, and the social work profession’s role in utilizing Truth and Reconciliation Commissions to address racial trauma by challenging hegemonic narratives of what is considered truth, who has the power to produce it, and what it truly means to tell it. Applying Foucault’s microphysics of power, every social worker is implicated in challenging settler colonialism and refusing to stay silent.


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