« On the shift from race to culture (and on settler colonialism): Michael R. Griffiths, ‘nterventions: race, culture, and population via the thought of A.P. Elkin’, Settler Colonial Studies, 2015
On the cultural comptibility of settler co-ethnicity: Jane Helleiner, ‘Recruiting the “culturally compatible” migrant: Irish Working Holiday migration and white settler Canadianness’, Ethnicities, 2015. »

On multiple colonialisms: Nancy Shoemaker, ‘A Typology of Colonialism’, Prspectives on History, October 2015

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Excerpt: In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated. And settler colonial theory is now dogma. At my last two conference presentations, a fellow panelist was astonished that I didn’t deploy it. My research on native New England whaling history made me more globally comparative, but it also forced a reckoning that many places experienced colonialism without an influx of foreign settlers.

As scholars parse settler colonialism into its multiple manifestations, colonialism itself remains undifferentiated.


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