Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
Colonialism is a form of sociopolitical organization in which the colonizing power not only exploits the land, labor, and natural resources of the colonized but also attempts to eradicate their ...
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Colonialism is a form of sociopolitical organization in which the colonizing power not only exploits the land, labor, and natural resources of the colonized but also attempts to eradicate their cultures, histories, and independent identities. As such, it is inherently genocidal. This chapter provides an overview of classic or external colonialism, internal colonialism, and settler colonialism, developing a framework that will be applied throughout the rest of the text.Less
Colonialism is a form of sociopolitical organization in which the colonizing power not only exploits the land, labor, and natural resources of the colonized but also attempts to eradicate their cultures, histories, and independent identities. As such, it is inherently genocidal. This chapter provides an overview of classic or external colonialism, internal colonialism, and settler colonialism, developing a framework that will be applied throughout the rest of the text.
John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266579
- eISBN:
- 9780191601446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266573.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The chapter discusses the use of the comparative method by Northern Ireland's political partisans and academics. It shows how analogies with other conflicts have been used by partisans to further ...
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The chapter discusses the use of the comparative method by Northern Ireland's political partisans and academics. It shows how analogies with other conflicts have been used by partisans to further their political agendas. These analogies are tied to important international norms, and their use by Northern Ireland's politicians are an attempt to influence international opinion, as well as cement group solidarity. The second part of the chapter summarizes how Northern Ireland has been analysed by academics employing important comparative political theories, including consociationalism and integrationism.Less
The chapter discusses the use of the comparative method by Northern Ireland's political partisans and academics. It shows how analogies with other conflicts have been used by partisans to further their political agendas. These analogies are tied to important international norms, and their use by Northern Ireland's politicians are an attempt to influence international opinion, as well as cement group solidarity. The second part of the chapter summarizes how Northern Ireland has been analysed by academics employing important comparative political theories, including consociationalism and integrationism.
Candace Fujikane
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824830151
- eISBN:
- 9780824869243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824830151.003.0017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This introductory chapter briefly reexamines the past and present roles that Asians have played in the U.S. colony of Hawai‘i. It identifies settler colonialism as the basis of Hawaiian critiques of ...
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This introductory chapter briefly reexamines the past and present roles that Asians have played in the U.S. colony of Hawai‘i. It identifies settler colonialism as the basis of Hawaiian critiques of U.S. colonialism, moreover arguing that Asians have also played the role of settlers within the colonial framework. Predominant accounts of Hawai‘i indicate it as a democratic, “multicultural,” or “multiracial” state, yet the chapter argues that such accounts obscure the historical and political conditions of a white- and Asian-dominated U.S. settler colony. While “local” is sometimes used as a geographical marker to distinguish “local Asians” in Hawai‘i from “Asian Americans” on the U.S. continent, it is more popularly used to establish a problematic claim to Hawai‘i.Less
This introductory chapter briefly reexamines the past and present roles that Asians have played in the U.S. colony of Hawai‘i. It identifies settler colonialism as the basis of Hawaiian critiques of U.S. colonialism, moreover arguing that Asians have also played the role of settlers within the colonial framework. Predominant accounts of Hawai‘i indicate it as a democratic, “multicultural,” or “multiracial” state, yet the chapter argues that such accounts obscure the historical and political conditions of a white- and Asian-dominated U.S. settler colony. While “local” is sometimes used as a geographical marker to distinguish “local Asians” in Hawai‘i from “Asian Americans” on the U.S. continent, it is more popularly used to establish a problematic claim to Hawai‘i.
Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
Land is essential to any settler colonial project, and Indigenous nations stood in the way of Angloamerican occupation of the continent. The settlers racialized American Indians as “savage” and ...
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Land is essential to any settler colonial project, and Indigenous nations stood in the way of Angloamerican occupation of the continent. The settlers racialized American Indians as “savage” and “uncivilized,” and then used these depictions to facilitate their strategies of elimination. These included officially sanctioned massacres, privatized violence, forced removals, mass incarcerations, and conceptual disappearance through assimilation and the imposition of identity. Understanding this history allows us to recognize how variants of these strategies both continue into the present and permeate the subjugation of other peoples of color.Less
Land is essential to any settler colonial project, and Indigenous nations stood in the way of Angloamerican occupation of the continent. The settlers racialized American Indians as “savage” and “uncivilized,” and then used these depictions to facilitate their strategies of elimination. These included officially sanctioned massacres, privatized violence, forced removals, mass incarcerations, and conceptual disappearance through assimilation and the imposition of identity. Understanding this history allows us to recognize how variants of these strategies both continue into the present and permeate the subjugation of other peoples of color.
Maile Arvin
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824869885
- eISBN:
- 9780824877859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824869885.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines the Western idea that Polynesians are an almost white race and the significant ideological work this racial construction does for naturalizing both settler colonialism and white ...
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This chapter examines the Western idea that Polynesians are an almost white race and the significant ideological work this racial construction does for naturalizing both settler colonialism and white supremacy in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The central argument is that Polynesia has been the target of a logic of possession through whiteness, whereby the identification of Polynesians as being in close proximity to whiteness has allowed white settlers to feel entitled to possession of Polynesian lands, culture, and bodies. The chapter analyzes the origin of this logic in the history of social science—particularly examining the complicated position of Te Rangihiroa, a Maori anthropologist who upheld the ideal of Polynesians being properly classified as white. It then turns to a more recent example of the representation of Pacific Islanders as almost white in the 2012 movie Cloud Atlas. The Cloud Atlas analysis considers how anti-blackness, techno-Orientalism and anti-indigeneity converge in the film’s universalist narrative about human transcendence. Overall, the chapter seeks not simply to “correct” false images about Polynesians, but to argue for the hard work of recognizing and challenging settler colonialism and white supremacy especially in the context of ongoing celebrations of Hawaiʻi as a supposedly “race-free” melting pot.Less
This chapter examines the Western idea that Polynesians are an almost white race and the significant ideological work this racial construction does for naturalizing both settler colonialism and white supremacy in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The central argument is that Polynesia has been the target of a logic of possession through whiteness, whereby the identification of Polynesians as being in close proximity to whiteness has allowed white settlers to feel entitled to possession of Polynesian lands, culture, and bodies. The chapter analyzes the origin of this logic in the history of social science—particularly examining the complicated position of Te Rangihiroa, a Maori anthropologist who upheld the ideal of Polynesians being properly classified as white. It then turns to a more recent example of the representation of Pacific Islanders as almost white in the 2012 movie Cloud Atlas. The Cloud Atlas analysis considers how anti-blackness, techno-Orientalism and anti-indigeneity converge in the film’s universalist narrative about human transcendence. Overall, the chapter seeks not simply to “correct” false images about Polynesians, but to argue for the hard work of recognizing and challenging settler colonialism and white supremacy especially in the context of ongoing celebrations of Hawaiʻi as a supposedly “race-free” melting pot.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances ...
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This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances Native, feminist, critical race, and queer studies by emphasizing Indigenous feminist and queer thought and Native queer and Two-Spirit activism. It examines how settler colonial power relations among Native and non-Native people define the status “queer.” It explains that modern queer subjects, politics, and culture have developed among Natives and non-Natives in interrelated, yet distinct, ways. Native queer cultures and politics critique colonial heteropatriarchy by asserting Indigenous methods of national survival, decolonization, and traditional renewal, including within Two-Spirit identity. Additionally, the chapter explains the narrative relationships among queer subjects by situating them within ethnographic and historical accounts of U.S. queer politics.Less
This introductory chapter explains the theoretical analysis of settler colonialism conditioning the formation of Native and non-Native queer modernities in conversation. It draws from and advances Native, feminist, critical race, and queer studies by emphasizing Indigenous feminist and queer thought and Native queer and Two-Spirit activism. It examines how settler colonial power relations among Native and non-Native people define the status “queer.” It explains that modern queer subjects, politics, and culture have developed among Natives and non-Natives in interrelated, yet distinct, ways. Native queer cultures and politics critique colonial heteropatriarchy by asserting Indigenous methods of national survival, decolonization, and traditional renewal, including within Two-Spirit identity. Additionally, the chapter explains the narrative relationships among queer subjects by situating them within ethnographic and historical accounts of U.S. queer politics.
Hsuan L. Hsu
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479807215
- eISBN:
- 9781479805372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479807215.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 5 considers settler colonialism’s effects on the smellscape as a mode of atmospheric violence that targets a fundamental material contributor to Indigenous health, culture, and ecological ...
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Chapter 5 considers settler colonialism’s effects on the smellscape as a mode of atmospheric violence that targets a fundamental material contributor to Indigenous health, culture, and ecological relations. The chapter suggests that decolonizing smell requires both attending to Indigenous olfactory practices that have been decimated by colonial education and reshaping smellscapes that have been transformed by colonization. This argument unfolds through readings of Indigenous commentaries on smudging and the writings of Albert Wendt (Samoa), Haunani-Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli), and Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi).Less
Chapter 5 considers settler colonialism’s effects on the smellscape as a mode of atmospheric violence that targets a fundamental material contributor to Indigenous health, culture, and ecological relations. The chapter suggests that decolonizing smell requires both attending to Indigenous olfactory practices that have been decimated by colonial education and reshaping smellscapes that have been transformed by colonization. This argument unfolds through readings of Indigenous commentaries on smudging and the writings of Albert Wendt (Samoa), Haunani-Kay Trask (Kanaka Maoli), and Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi).
Duncan Bell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691138787
- eISBN:
- 9781400881024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691138787.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter opens with a discussion of the mutable vocabulary of empire and liberalism, before analyzing some of the most important recent scholarship on the subject. It argues that two main ...
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This chapter opens with a discussion of the mutable vocabulary of empire and liberalism, before analyzing some of the most important recent scholarship on the subject. It argues that two main weaknesses run through scholarly commentary on liberalism and empire: a tendency to overlook the significance of settler colonialism and an over-reliance on canonical interpretations of liberalism. Settler colonialism played a crucial role in nineteenth-century imperial thought, and liberalism in particular, yet it has largely been ignored in the burst of writing about the intellectual foundations of the Victorian empire. Utilizing canonical interpretations of liberalism, meanwhile, has generated some skewed claims about the historical connections between liberal political thought and empire.Less
This chapter opens with a discussion of the mutable vocabulary of empire and liberalism, before analyzing some of the most important recent scholarship on the subject. It argues that two main weaknesses run through scholarly commentary on liberalism and empire: a tendency to overlook the significance of settler colonialism and an over-reliance on canonical interpretations of liberalism. Settler colonialism played a crucial role in nineteenth-century imperial thought, and liberalism in particular, yet it has largely been ignored in the burst of writing about the intellectual foundations of the Victorian empire. Utilizing canonical interpretations of liberalism, meanwhile, has generated some skewed claims about the historical connections between liberal political thought and empire.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed ...
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This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed on Native lands. The queering of white settlers then rests on the existence of a settler colonialism that conditions both heteronormative and queer gender and sexual politics on stolen land, which Two-Spirit activists and Native queer resist. It argues that the biopolitics of settler colonialism creates settler sexuality as the context traversed by Native and non-Native people formulating queer modernities. Non-Native queer modernities develop by gathering a multiracial, transnational constituency as a diversity that exists in a non-Native relationship to disappearing indigeneity. Moreover, settler colonialism is a primary condition of the history of sexuality in the United States.Less
This chapter explores how “settler sexuality” queers Native peoples to attempt their elimination compatibly with emphasizing racialized heteropatriarchal control over subject people of color placed on Native lands. The queering of white settlers then rests on the existence of a settler colonialism that conditions both heteronormative and queer gender and sexual politics on stolen land, which Two-Spirit activists and Native queer resist. It argues that the biopolitics of settler colonialism creates settler sexuality as the context traversed by Native and non-Native people formulating queer modernities. Non-Native queer modernities develop by gathering a multiracial, transnational constituency as a diversity that exists in a non-Native relationship to disappearing indigeneity. Moreover, settler colonialism is a primary condition of the history of sexuality in the United States.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the ...
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Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. The book’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, it shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—this text demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States.Less
Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,” this book argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. The book’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, it shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—this text demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States.
Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law begins from the premise that the United States is neither postracial nor postcolonial. Using the lens of settler colonial theory, it attributes the origins and ...
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Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law begins from the premise that the United States is neither postracial nor postcolonial. Using the lens of settler colonial theory, it attributes the origins and persistence of racialized inequities in the United States to the prerogatives asserted by its predominantly Angloamerican founders to appropriate Indigenous lands and resources, to profit from the labor of voluntary and involuntary migrants, and to ensure that all people of color remain “in their place.” This book assesses the experiences of American Indians, African Americans, Latina/os, and Asian Americans to the present day in terms of the strategies utilized by the settlers to accomplish these ends. By providing a functional analysis that links disparate forms of oppression, it makes the case for the oft-cited proposition that racial justice is indivisible, focusing particularly on the importance of acknowledging and contesting the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. It concludes that we will more effectively dismantle structural racism not by relying on promises of formal equality but by envisioning what the right of all peoples to self-determination means in a settler colonial state.Less
Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law begins from the premise that the United States is neither postracial nor postcolonial. Using the lens of settler colonial theory, it attributes the origins and persistence of racialized inequities in the United States to the prerogatives asserted by its predominantly Angloamerican founders to appropriate Indigenous lands and resources, to profit from the labor of voluntary and involuntary migrants, and to ensure that all people of color remain “in their place.” This book assesses the experiences of American Indians, African Americans, Latina/os, and Asian Americans to the present day in terms of the strategies utilized by the settlers to accomplish these ends. By providing a functional analysis that links disparate forms of oppression, it makes the case for the oft-cited proposition that racial justice is indivisible, focusing particularly on the importance of acknowledging and contesting the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. It concludes that we will more effectively dismantle structural racism not by relying on promises of formal equality but by envisioning what the right of all peoples to self-determination means in a settler colonial state.
Duncan Bell
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197266618
- eISBN:
- 9780191896064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266618.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter will explore the similarities and differences between late nineteenth-century debates on the British settler Empire and more recent visions of the Anglosphere. It suggests that the idea ...
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This chapter will explore the similarities and differences between late nineteenth-century debates on the British settler Empire and more recent visions of the Anglosphere. It suggests that the idea of the Anglosphere has deep roots in British political thought. In particular, it traces the debates over both imperial federation and Anglo-American union from the late nineteenth century onwards into the post-Brexit world. I examine three recurrent issues that have shaped arguments about the unity and potential of the ‘English-speaking peoples’: the ideal constitutional structure of the community; the economic model that it should adopt; and the role of the United States within it. I conclude by arguing that the legacy of settler colonialism, and an idealised vision of the ‘English-speaking peoples’, played a pivotal role in shaping Tory Euroscepticism from the late 1990s onwards, furnishing an influential group of politicians and public intellectuals, from Thatcher and Robert Conquest to Boris Johnson and Andrew Roberts, with an alternative non-European vision of Britain’s place in the world.Less
This chapter will explore the similarities and differences between late nineteenth-century debates on the British settler Empire and more recent visions of the Anglosphere. It suggests that the idea of the Anglosphere has deep roots in British political thought. In particular, it traces the debates over both imperial federation and Anglo-American union from the late nineteenth century onwards into the post-Brexit world. I examine three recurrent issues that have shaped arguments about the unity and potential of the ‘English-speaking peoples’: the ideal constitutional structure of the community; the economic model that it should adopt; and the role of the United States within it. I conclude by arguing that the legacy of settler colonialism, and an idealised vision of the ‘English-speaking peoples’, played a pivotal role in shaping Tory Euroscepticism from the late 1990s onwards, furnishing an influential group of politicians and public intellectuals, from Thatcher and Robert Conquest to Boris Johnson and Andrew Roberts, with an alternative non-European vision of Britain’s place in the world.
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680474
- eISBN:
- 9781452947969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680474.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
The introduction offers a brief history of schooling in Hawaiʻi from the 19th century onward and outlines existing conditions of injustice. The theoretical frame is established by discussing key ...
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The introduction offers a brief history of schooling in Hawaiʻi from the 19th century onward and outlines existing conditions of injustice. The theoretical frame is established by discussing key concepts: settler colonial logics of elimination and containment, “cultural kīpuka,” “safety zones,” indigenous resurgence and aloha ʻāina (understood as a multiplicity of land-centered literacies). I also provide a description of the methods of counter-narrative and portraiture that I utilize in this book.Less
The introduction offers a brief history of schooling in Hawaiʻi from the 19th century onward and outlines existing conditions of injustice. The theoretical frame is established by discussing key concepts: settler colonial logics of elimination and containment, “cultural kīpuka,” “safety zones,” indigenous resurgence and aloha ʻāina (understood as a multiplicity of land-centered literacies). I also provide a description of the methods of counter-narrative and portraiture that I utilize in this book.
Andrea Smith
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520273436
- eISBN:
- 9780520953765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520273436.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines the interrelationships among indigeneity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's concept of the racial state. It argues ...
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This chapter examines the interrelationships among indigeneity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's concept of the racial state. It argues that insufficient exchange between ethnic studies and Native studies prevents us from imagining an alternative to the racial state, and especially the development of a decolonization framework. It explains how the lack of attention to settler colonialism hinders the analysis of race and white supremacy developed by scholars who focus on race and racial formation. It also challenges the manner in which ethnic studies has formulated the study of race relations and how people-of-color organizing within the United States has formulated models for racial solidarity. Finally, it considers emerging intellectual and political projects that point to new directions in addressing the intersecting logics of white supremacy and settler colonialism.Less
This chapter examines the interrelationships among indigeneity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's concept of the racial state. It argues that insufficient exchange between ethnic studies and Native studies prevents us from imagining an alternative to the racial state, and especially the development of a decolonization framework. It explains how the lack of attention to settler colonialism hinders the analysis of race and white supremacy developed by scholars who focus on race and racial formation. It also challenges the manner in which ethnic studies has formulated the study of race relations and how people-of-color organizing within the United States has formulated models for racial solidarity. Finally, it considers emerging intellectual and political projects that point to new directions in addressing the intersecting logics of white supremacy and settler colonialism.
Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
The master narrative of American history depicts the triumph of “civilization” over “savagery,” with Angloamerican settlers braving the wilderness to assert their “right” to establish a state over ...
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The master narrative of American history depicts the triumph of “civilization” over “savagery,” with Angloamerican settlers braving the wilderness to assert their “right” to establish a state over which they would exert complete control. It is a story of constant and inevitable progress, of racial and gendered hierarchies, and of the transformation of land and people into property. It overwrites the stories of others—particularly the peoples indigenous to these lands—erasing their histories, worldviews, and often even their existence, masking the violence inherent to colonization. This chapter sets the stage for the construction of narratives that better account for the actual histories of all peoples within the United States, thereby providing a more realistic basis for meaningful change.Less
The master narrative of American history depicts the triumph of “civilization” over “savagery,” with Angloamerican settlers braving the wilderness to assert their “right” to establish a state over which they would exert complete control. It is a story of constant and inevitable progress, of racial and gendered hierarchies, and of the transformation of land and people into property. It overwrites the stories of others—particularly the peoples indigenous to these lands—erasing their histories, worldviews, and often even their existence, masking the violence inherent to colonization. This chapter sets the stage for the construction of narratives that better account for the actual histories of all peoples within the United States, thereby providing a more realistic basis for meaningful change.
Brendan O’Leary
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199243341
- eISBN:
- 9780191863462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199243341.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter contrasts the colonial and “sectarianized peoples” interpretations of modern Irish history, defining and defending the former while noting that the latter frequently displays ...
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This chapter contrasts the colonial and “sectarianized peoples” interpretations of modern Irish history, defining and defending the former while noting that the latter frequently displays “observational equivalence” with the former. Jürgen Osterhammel’s conception of colonialism is shown to be applicable and apposite, as are those of a range of thinkers from Machiavelli to Michael Hechter. A political rather than an economic or cultural conception of colonialism is defended. An overview of the influential “ancient-régime” reading of Irish history by Sean Connolly is shown to have significant limitations. The curious absence of decolonization from much Irish historiography is noted. The reason that matters is that it is important to date the end of colonization in the South and the North respectively and precisely.Less
This chapter contrasts the colonial and “sectarianized peoples” interpretations of modern Irish history, defining and defending the former while noting that the latter frequently displays “observational equivalence” with the former. Jürgen Osterhammel’s conception of colonialism is shown to be applicable and apposite, as are those of a range of thinkers from Machiavelli to Michael Hechter. A political rather than an economic or cultural conception of colonialism is defended. An overview of the influential “ancient-régime” reading of Irish history by Sean Connolly is shown to have significant limitations. The curious absence of decolonization from much Irish historiography is noted. The reason that matters is that it is important to date the end of colonization in the South and the North respectively and precisely.
Mark Rifkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816690572
- eISBN:
- 9781452949413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816690572.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, ...
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Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.Less
Chapter 1 – It provides the theoretical and methodological background for the study. Surveying relevant scholarship in nineteenth-century American literary studies, Native studies, and queer studies, it develops in detail the meaning, scope, and implications of the book’s central concept (settler common sense), elaborating its contribution to those three fields.
Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
Race has always been essential to the establishment and maintenance of structures of power and privilege in the United States, and communities of color remain racially subordinated. This book ...
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Race has always been essential to the establishment and maintenance of structures of power and privilege in the United States, and communities of color remain racially subordinated. This book analyzes racial privilege and subjugation in the United States as a function of ongoing settler colonialism.Less
Race has always been essential to the establishment and maintenance of structures of power and privilege in the United States, and communities of color remain racially subordinated. This book analyzes racial privilege and subjugation in the United States as a function of ongoing settler colonialism.
Mary L. Mullen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474453240
- eISBN:
- 9781474477116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453240.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter demonstrates how Charles Dickens’s novels embrace ‘reactionary reform’: a vision of the future that is actually a return to an anachronistic past. Reactionary reform restores origins ...
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This chapter demonstrates how Charles Dickens’s novels embrace ‘reactionary reform’: a vision of the future that is actually a return to an anachronistic past. Reactionary reform restores origins that institutions erase in their drive towards futurity, whether those origins are Sissy Jupe’s life with her father in Hard Times, Esther Summerson’s parentage in Bleak House or the humble home that Pip mistakenly disavows in Great Expectations. Reactivating origins allows a different stance towards institutions: instead of settling down and accepting their established rhythms, characters inhabit institutions, dwelling temporarily in them without acceding to their terms. But Dickens’s vision of reform does not extend to everyone. He reinforces settler colonialism by representing particular groups of people as outside of history and futurity altogether. Validating anachronisms and criticising them in turn, Dickens imagines progressive change that rejects modern institutionalism but, in the process, shores up the racialised abstractions upon which settler colonial institutions depend.Less
This chapter demonstrates how Charles Dickens’s novels embrace ‘reactionary reform’: a vision of the future that is actually a return to an anachronistic past. Reactionary reform restores origins that institutions erase in their drive towards futurity, whether those origins are Sissy Jupe’s life with her father in Hard Times, Esther Summerson’s parentage in Bleak House or the humble home that Pip mistakenly disavows in Great Expectations. Reactivating origins allows a different stance towards institutions: instead of settling down and accepting their established rhythms, characters inhabit institutions, dwelling temporarily in them without acceding to their terms. But Dickens’s vision of reform does not extend to everyone. He reinforces settler colonialism by representing particular groups of people as outside of history and futurity altogether. Validating anachronisms and criticising them in turn, Dickens imagines progressive change that rejects modern institutionalism but, in the process, shores up the racialised abstractions upon which settler colonial institutions depend.
Andy Clarno
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226429922
- eISBN:
- 9780226430126
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226430126.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter begins with an introduction to the paradox that the book examines: despite divergent trajectories of political change, South Africa and Palestine/Israel have experienced surprisingly ...
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This chapter begins with an introduction to the paradox that the book examines: despite divergent trajectories of political change, South Africa and Palestine/Israel have experienced surprisingly similar social and economic changes over the last twenty years. What explains the simultaneous development of extreme inequality, racialized poverty, and advanced security strategies? Next, the chapter offers a brief overview of comparative scholarship on South Africa and Palestine/Israel and describes the key interventions of this study. The core of the chapter is a discussion of two fields of critical interdisciplinary scholarship: settler colonialism and racial capitalism. The book analyzes the relationship between the neoliberalization of racial capitalism and the (de)colonization of settler colonial regimes in South Africa and Palestine/Israel over the last twenty years. It argues that these processes have combined to generate new forms of neoliberal apartheid defined by marginalization and securitization. The chapter ends by presenting the research methods and an outline of the chapters.Less
This chapter begins with an introduction to the paradox that the book examines: despite divergent trajectories of political change, South Africa and Palestine/Israel have experienced surprisingly similar social and economic changes over the last twenty years. What explains the simultaneous development of extreme inequality, racialized poverty, and advanced security strategies? Next, the chapter offers a brief overview of comparative scholarship on South Africa and Palestine/Israel and describes the key interventions of this study. The core of the chapter is a discussion of two fields of critical interdisciplinary scholarship: settler colonialism and racial capitalism. The book analyzes the relationship between the neoliberalization of racial capitalism and the (de)colonization of settler colonial regimes in South Africa and Palestine/Israel over the last twenty years. It argues that these processes have combined to generate new forms of neoliberal apartheid defined by marginalization and securitization. The chapter ends by presenting the research methods and an outline of the chapters.
