The Settler Colonial Present

by Veracini, Lorenzo

• ISBN13: 9781137372468
• ISBN10: 113737246X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Settler colonial studies emerged in the last two decades as a subfield of comparative scholarly research. The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a mode of domination survived the age of decolonisation and reflects on the ways in which settler colonial studies can help making sense of the current dispensation. Rather than a thing of the past, or something affecting remote semi-peripheries, settler colonialism emerges as a crucial feature of the global present.

Author Biography

Lorenzo Veracini is Associate Professor in History at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and settler colonialism. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006) and Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010). Lorenzo is managing editor of Settler Colonial Studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Settler Colonial Present
1. Settler Colonialism is not Colonialism
2. Settlers are not Migrants
3. Settler Colonialism is not Somewhere Else
4. Settler Colonialism is not Finished
Conclusion: Transcending the Settler Colonial Present
Bibliography