The Fiscal Politics of Settler Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24223232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle Willmott (0000-0001-5561-8770, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; email: [email protected]) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 229-247 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-061824-080455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 63 |
This review concentrates on the fiscal practices of settler colonial states and societies such as Canada and the United States. Synthesizing critical interdisciplinary literature, I characterize how the fiscal forwards settler political goals of civilization, dispossession, and possession of Indigenous people, nations, and territory. Emphasizing the sociality and material power effects of fiscal colonialism demonstrates how practices like taxation have been administered historically and contemporarily around imperatives of settler authorities and against Indigenous nationhood. Organized around the knowledge politics of fiscal colonialism, the review foregrounds how fiscal discourses, techniques, and knowledge forms are integral to understanding settler colonial legal and political framing of Indigenous peoples. In doing so, this literature analyzes how public finance is structured and constituted by racist economic hierarchies, political ideologies, and property regimes that inscribe anti-Indigenous imperatives into law, state repertoires, and social practices.
Racial Capital, Public Debt, and the Appropriation of Epekwitk, 1853–1873
University Land Grabs
Municipal Colonialism in Vancouver
Reconsidering 1969
Issue 2
Revenue Competitions between Sovereigns
Agency in Economic Justice
The fiscal body of sovereignty
Anti‐Indigenous policy formation
Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology
Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity
Genealogies of the Land
The Whites are Wild about It”
Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America
Not “Civilized” Enough to Be Taxed
Discursive Deficits
Cleansing the Conscience of the People”
Extinction by Number
Jurisdiction and Settler Colonialism
Fiscal geographies
From self-government to government of the self
The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census
Indians and Taxation in Canada
Colonialism in Equality
Where the Nation Takes Place
Good Intentions are Not Good Relations
The ties that blind
American Indian Land Rights, Rich Indian Racism, and Newspaper Coverage in New York State, 1988-2008
Colonial Numbers
The Numbered Treaties and the Politics of Incoherency
Sovereignty's Alchemy
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
How Capitalism Will Save Colonialism
Fiduciary Colonialism
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution
Sovereignty for Sale? Tribal Patent Shelters and the Risky Business of Sovereign Derivatives
Rendering settler sovereign landscapes
Assimilation and Partition
Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure
Toward a cultural sociology of taxation
Pocketbook policing
Land, land banks and land back
Taxes, taxpayers, and settler colonialism
Finance and Foreclosure in the Colonial Present
Invisibility in the Color-Blind Era
Predatory Value
The Ground Not Given
Mechanisms of the Racial Tax State
Fungibility
Capitalist Transformation and Settler Colonialism
The Origins of Tax Systems
The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power
The Color of Money and the Nature of Value
Taxing the indigenous
Public opinion, prejudice and the racialization of welfare in Canada
White Opposition to Native Nation Sovereignty
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters
From Locke to Slots
What We Talk About When We Talk About Taxes
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |