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Two types of Colonization

Colonies of Occupation

Settler Colonies

in which "indigenous people remained in the majority but were administered by a foreign power"

in which "the invading Europeans...annihilated, displaced and/or marginalized the indigenes to become a non-majority..."

from Patrick Wolfe's "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native."

For the settlers,

paired with the mindset that

Key Example:

India and the

British Raj

What is a SETTLER?

"Within colonial discourse, the settlers generally referred to are Europeans who moved from

their countries of origin to European colonies

with the intention of remaining."

"Increasingly the term 'SETTLER-INVADER'

has been used to emphasize the

less-than-benign repercussions of such 'settlement'..."

(210)

"Like all such designations, however, 'settler colonies' and 'colonies of occupation' provide the abstract poles of a continuum rather than precise descriptive categories or paradigms."

(Ashcroft 211)

South African

Apartheid

United States

Native Treaties

Ireland

British Raj

Australia

Colony of

Occupation

Settler

Colony

"The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism."

(Wolfe 387)

Three Major Forms of Settler Colonial Genocide

The Ghosts of Football Past

(@7:50)

(@9:00)

http://www.radiolab.org/story/who-are-we-carlisle-carlisle-carlisle/

(especially for language)

But what about the settlers as people and not as hegemonic machinery?

Ashcroft:

"Settlers are displaced from their own point of origin and may have difficulties in establishing their identity in a new place."

(211)

"discrimination as colonial subjects themselves..."

This leads to

whose

"own identity depends...on retaining their sense of difference from the 'native' population."

(211)

Wolfe has some points:

"In Australia,...the erasure of indigeneity conflicts with the assertion of settler nationalism."

(389)

Setters are both colonizer AND colonized,

in that they are

to the country of origin:

"other"

"[S]ettler society required the practical elimination of the natives in order to establish itself on their territory...however, [it] subsequently sought to recuperate indigeneity...to express its difference - and...independence - from the mother country."

(389)

Works Cited.

Ashcroft, Bill, et al. Key Concepts in Post-

Colonial Studies. Routledge, 1998.

Wolfe, Paul. "Settler Colonialism and the

Elimination of the Native." Journal of Genocide

Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, pp. 387-409, http://

www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/89.pdf.

Accessed 27 October 2017.

Settler Colonies

The Insidious Nature of Domination

"...natives are typically represented as unsettled, nomadic, rootless, etc..."

(396)

Biological

- Relocation

- Removal

- Reservations

Physical

- Frontier Warfare

- Massacres

First of all,

Ashcroft:

He adds:

"...'we' could use the land better than they could"

(389)

Cultural

- Elimination of

Cultural

Practice

- Reeducation

"[Settler Colonialism] strives for the dissolution of native societies."

and

"...destroys to replace."

(388)

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