This collection of papers originates from a June 2024 workshop at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) as part of the Settler Colonial Paradigms research program. Scholars from the Research Centre for Historical Studies at University of Groningen, explore settler colonialism across different time periods, from the ancient Mediterranean to future visions of Mars colonization, analysing its core characteristics and lasting impact. The contributors examine overlooked perspectives and raise important questions: What defines settler colonialism across time and space? How does it differ from other colonial forms? And how can this concept enhance our understanding of contemporary global dynamics? External experts in the field have been invited to respond to foster further dialogue and advance the discourse.
Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Reflections on Settler Colonial Discourse
Introduction
Jeremia Pelgrom & Clemens Six
The Ancient Roots of Settler Colonialism
Jeremia Pelgrom
Caesar’s World Turned Inside Out? Roman Provincial Colonisation and the ‘Settler Revolution’ of the First Century BCE
Jitse Daniels
Reason of State Literature in Dutch Colonial Practice: Pieter van Hoorn in Batavia
Dinah Wouters
When Does a Settler Become an Ancient Settler?
Mark L. Thompson
Plantations in the Peatlands? Domestic Colonization and Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Dutch North
Maarten Zwiers
Contested ‘Modernities’, Unaccepted Intermediaries? In Between-men in Settler Colonial Settings from the Levant
Karène Sanchez Summerer
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Responses
Roman Colonialism as Settler Colonialism? Potentialities and Problems
Evan Jewell
Processes and Relationships
Michael Oberg
Commentary to “Settler Colonialism as a Structure?”
Cyrus Schayegh
Unsettling: The Vulgar Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the Anxieties of Settler Colonialism
Heather J. Sharkey
Settler Colonialism and Colonization in the Ancient World: Necessary Comparisons [available soon]
Tesse D. Stek
A Response to Plantations in the Peatlands? Domestic Colonization and Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Dutch North
Hanneke Stuit
Response to ‘Settler Colonialism as a Structure? Reflections on Settler Colonial Discourse’
Lorenzo Veracini
From Batavia to Starbase: Property and Sovereignty Between Settler Colonialism and Venture Colonialism
Arthur Weststeijn