Archiving Settler Colonialism : Culture, Space and Race

Much of the intellectual effort in the surging field of settler colonial studies since the late 1990s has been to theorize the structural distinction between colonialism and settler colonialism. While the field has always been interdisciplinary, its emphasis on settler colonialism as a political structure has largely privileged political history and has tended to ignore local variants. This books makes a timely and important scholarly contribution in focusing on cultural expressions of settler colonialism across geographical, political, and cultural borders.

also expands settler colonial studies’ reach as an international academic discipline, bringing together scholarly research about the British breakaway settler colonies with underanalyzed non-white, non-Anglophone settler societies. The essays together illustrate settler colonial cultures as—for all their similarities—ultimately divergent constructions, locally situated and produced of specific power relations within the messy operations of imperial domination.