Unsettling Settler Societies Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class

by Daiva Stasiulis; Nira Yuval-Davis

• ISBN13: 9780803986947
• ISBN10: 0803986947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-11
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

'Settler societies' are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies.Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler/immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women's conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and migrant peoples within them, reflects the place of these societies (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Algeria and Israel) within a global economy.

Table of Contents

Foreword - John H Stanfield II

Introduction - Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis

Beyond Dichotomies - Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Settler Societies

Post-Colonial Politics in Aotearoa//New Zealand - Wendy Larner and Paul Spoonley

Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Australia - Jan Jindy Pettman

The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society - Daiva Stasiulis and Radha Jhappan

Canada

Gendering, Racializing and Classifying - Dolores Janiewski

Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590-1990

Miscegenation as Nation-Building - Natividad Guti[ac]errez

Indian and Immigrant Women in Mexico

Five Centuries of Gendered Settler Society - Sarah A Radcliffe

Conquerors, Natives and Immigrants in Peru

Constructing Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity - Elaine Unterhalter

State and Opposition Strategies in South Africa

Gender Divisions and the Formation of Ethnicities in Zimbabwe - Susie Jacobs

Between `Becoming M'tourni' and `Going Native' - Anissa H[ac]elie

Gender and Settler Society in Algeria

Palestine, Israel and the Zionist Settler Project - Nahla Abdo and Nira Yuval-Davis