Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview

✍ Scribed by Lorenzo Veracini

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the present as a thing of the past. In this book, Lorenzo Veracini explores the settler colonial 'situation' and explains how there is no such thing as neo-settler colonialism or post-settler colonialism because settler colonialism is a resilient formation that rarely ends. Not all migrants are settlers: settlers come to stay, and are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity. And settler colonialism is not colonialism: settlers want Indigenous people to vanish (but can make use of their labour before they are made to disappear). Sometimes settler colonial forms operate within colonial ones, sometimes they subvert them, sometimes they replace them. But even if colonialism and settler colonialism interpenetrate and overlap, they remain separate as they co-define each other. 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: The Settler Colonial Situation......Page 10
1 Population......Page 25
Population economy and settler collective......Page 26
Transfer and settler colonialism......Page 42
2 Sovereignty......Page 62
An ancient and corporate foundation......Page 64
Self-constitution, isopolity......Page 70
3 Consciousness......Page 84
Disavowal, non-encounter......Page 85
Primal scene, screen memory......Page 95
4 Narrative......Page 104
Colonial narratives, settler colonial narratives......Page 105
Telling the end of the settler colonial story......Page 113
Notes......Page 126
Bibliography......Page 163
Index......Page 187