The intellectual spine — settler colonialism, Turtle Island → Palestine

Original source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0377919X.2021.1909376 ; https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/jps-articles/RPAL_A_1909376_O.pdf ; https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/series/settler-colonialism-unsettling-exceptionalisms-with-and-through-israel-palestine Retrieved: 2026-07-05

Academic / movement scaffolding for the "shared logic of policing, land, and disposability" argument.

Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene, Red Skin, White Masks, 2014) defines settler colonialism as "a sedimented set of hierarchical social relations that continue to facilitate the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples of the lands." The three-part logic named across the settler-colonial-studies literature: elimination, dispossession, and replacement. This is the analytic that lets a local encampment sweep and a distant land seizure be read as the same operation.

Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol 50, No 2, 2021), "Disrupting Settler-Colonial Capitalism: Indigenous Intifadas and Resurgent Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine" — makes the link explicit: both Indigenous and Palestinian struggles "required organized anti-colonial resistance to capitalist economic relations and forced dispossession." Traces the resurgence of Indigenous/Palestine solidarity through the Wet'suwet'en land-sovereignty struggle. This is the citable spine for the essayistic argument.

Society for Cultural Anthropology, "Settler Colonialism: Unsettling Exceptionalisms with and through Israel-Palestine" — settler colonial projects across the globe reveal "common structural dimensions."

HOW IT GROUNDS THE LOCAL→GLOBAL ARGUMENT (essayistic, tied to the dataset's verified local facts): - >50% of Edmonton's counted homeless are Indigenous in a ~6%-Indigenous region (canonical dataset, Pillar 2). Encampment removals are administrative colonial removal — clearing Indigenous bodies off contested urban land, backed by $225k of fencing to prevent return, the last camp cleared at −24°C. - The frostbite amputations (188 on unhoused Edmontonians since 2021; majority-unhoused share) are the medical signature of that removal — disposability written on the body. - The SAME policing apparatus tear-gassed the divestment encampment (Palestine solidarity) at dawn. The spine: policing, land, and disposability run one logic — who gets removed from land, who is made surplus, whose survival is criminalized — whether the land is a river-valley encampment on Treaty 6 or a quad or Gaza. A leftist/anarchist analysis NAMES that logic; electoral progressivism manages its worst edges and funds the force that enforces it. This is argument, cited to movement/academic writing — NOT an assertion of fact about any named living person.