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15 april 2025
What role do intellectual arguments in favour of settler colonialism play in the practice of colonial administrators? During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Europeans not only founded settler colonies, they also wrote theories about the benefits that...
15 april 2025
This essay was inspired mainly by Lorenzo Veracini’s The world turned inside out, and an article written by Evan Jewell on colonisation and domestic displacement. Published in 2021, Veracini’s study offers an explanation for the emergence of settler...
15 april 2025
The discourse on settler colonialism has largely been shaped by historians of the modern era, with a strong emphasis on Western colonial practices. While this perspective has provided valuable insights into the phenomenon’s influence on the modern geopolitical...
8 april 2025
Ever since the publication of Patrick Wolfe’s seminal paper on settler colonialism’s logic of elimination, historians have debated with new vigour what settler colonialism is, when and why it originally emerged, and how it has shaped the world we live in today....
17 maart 2025
